Talk:Soft dollar

Do not merge

I disagree that soft dollar and soft money should be merged. In the BCRA, they made it very clear what "soft money" is. The word soft dollar was never mentioned. User:141.213.190.75

I agree that the pages should not be merged. From the description of soft dollar in this article, they appear to be different concepts. —Lowellian (talk) 06:10, May 21, 2005 (UTC)

Estimates of transaction costs being between 1.25 and 1.65 cents per share

I couldn't find any reference to research supporting the claim. The only source I could locate that mentions it is already cited (it's an SEC comment letter from William George), but it just mentions this as a "fact" without further referencing specific body of research. So this is a dubious statement, unless further evidence supporting it is found. I'm marking it as such. cherkash (talk) 16:22, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

remove {{Globalize/US}} tag

The {{Globalize/US}} tag has been sitting on the article for five years now. I think it is safe to assume that "soft dollar" is a US-specific term (otherwise it would be "soft currency" or "soft payment" or something, notwithstanding that not all dollars are US dollars) and that the whole article applies to the US only. There's nothing wrong with that, but the tag is unnecessary providing the lede clearly starts "In the United States..." or similar so that it's signposted early on. 84.236.23.123 (talk) 06:06, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

Per "or similar" used term Wall Street. A top half a dozen article's list for Soft Dollars in a magazine with 'Wall Street' in its name had four Wall Street (address) firms, the other two were also USA-based. Pi314m (talk) 06:17, 6 May 2020 (UTC) Saying "United States" could suggest it refers to computer centers, particularly in universities, that use "computer" dollars. Since it refers to Wall Street, that's the term now "signposted." Pi314m (talk) 06:17, 6 May 2020 (UTC)