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comment by am_Unition
am_Unition  ·  2043 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Madoff whistleblower alleges GE is a 'bigger fraud than Enron'

What are the odds that (especially) retail sector “debt reporting” practices like these are widespread, and the effective value of maaaaaaany companies isn’t as high as what the investors were lead to believe?

So weird! Never happened before





kleinbl00  ·  2042 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ben Hunt has argued that it's a garden-variety short play and that screaming "fraud!" is stock manipulation.

am_Unition  ·  2040 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So I looked that up, and if Markopolos is really shilling now, what a shitty thing to do. That'd be like a climate scientist doing good work for two decades and then getting payed by Shell to claim they were simply wrong all that time.

Regardless, I eagerly await more high-profile instances of oil and gas companies failing to churn a profit.

I'm house hunting right now. I feel like I could save maybe $40,000 by waiting for the market to crash, but I'm donezo with apartments. And I wanna start building equity immediately.