Regardless of market fluctuations, I doubt a printing press is going to fluctuate in value enough so that a person who purchased one would find him or herself underwater on the loan and unable to sell the press in order to recoup the value and pay back the loan. That was just a thought I had reading the article. I think I was sensing an air of false dichotomies.
mmm... Back in the '90s you could get Neumann record lathes for a song. I didn't buy like eight of them off of rec.music.makers.marketplace because cool as they were, what the fuck did you do with one? Now? Now mutherfuckers are selling vinyl for like $30 ea. Had I bought those eight Neumann lathes and put them in storage for fifteen years I would have made like $20k. Of course, had I bought them new and sold them now I would have lost like $80k. Went walking with a buddy in 2002. Fisherman's Terminal, Seattle. He observed that for the price of one 88' fishing trawler he could buy an Arri IIIc 35mm motion picture camera. In 2015 I saw an Arri IIIc for $2500; the fishing trawlers are still six figures. Know what I love about Michael Cohen? He owns 37 taxi medallions.