Solution

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The bond pays one at maturity. If had positive probability of being finite, buy one bond at . A negative price supplies immediate consumption and a positive terminal payoff; a zero price supplies a free positive terminal payoff. Trading only on the stopping event gives an arbitrage. Therefore almost surely for every .

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