Discount House

Stuff sold at a discount to normal retail price. Cheap chits.

In the olden days, brokerages charged a fortune for trading transactions. Then players like Schwab and other discounters came into the game, and instead of charging 1% or more for a trade, they did it for half or less the price, and became behemoths.

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