{"id":114,"date":"2008-12-22T21:56:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T02:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elegans.uky.edu\/blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2008-12-22T21:56:25","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T02:56:25","slug":"report-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Report &#038; short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fracture of the US financial system gives me an idea for a new business model.  <\/p>\n<p>1) Raise some capital.<\/p>\n<p>2) Use a tiny fraction to hire a few business\/finance reporters, and have them find a company riddled with fraudulent business practices.  How hard can it be&#8211;this stuff is common and not very well hidden.  Look at Enron, Halliburton, the Madoff Ponzi scheme.<\/p>\n<p>3) Then short the company&#8217;s stock, send the evidence to the appropriate regulatory and oversight agencies, feed the info to the press, and profit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fracture of the US financial system gives me an idea for a new business model. 1) Raise some capital. 2) Use a tiny fraction to hire a few business\/finance reporters, and have them find a company riddled with fraudulent business practices. How hard can it be&#8211;this stuff is common and not very well hidden. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}