Re:We Shouldn’t Be Surprised at the Theranos Fraud
by vkou on Thursday June 07, 2018 @11:12AM
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Even if you know that a company is a pure scam, the market can remain irrational longer then you can cover your short.
Re:We Shouldn’t Be Surprised at the Theranos Fraud
by Ibai0tha on Thursday June 07, 2018 @09:30AM
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Or prediction markets that investors could use as a second opinion to get a corrective input on their own views.
If you invest 100M you might as well throw another 10k at a prediction market if you're confident in yours and there are naysayers who would bet against you.
Re:We Shouldn’t Be Surprised at the Theranos Fraud
by buttcoinslol on Friday June 08, 2018 @12:43AM
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These are called financial derivatives.
This is a long way of saying that we may have created too many disincentives for large companies to IPO.