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Re:We Shouldn’t Be Surprised at the Theranos Fraud by twoodfin on Thursday June 07, 2018 @08:58AM (#17255346)
It's unfortunate that your brother and others couldn't publicly trade on this knowledge. That simultaneously would have made a ton of money and disseminated through the market the valuable information that folks were betting megabucks that Theranos was full of it, limiting their fraudulent climb into the stratosphere.

This is a long way of saying that we may have created too many disincentives for large companies to IPO.

Re:We Shouldn’t Be Surprised at the Theranos Fraud by vkou on Thursday June 07, 2018 @11:12AM (#17256466)
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 (#17255571)
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 (#17262649)
These are called financial derivatives.