• @bus_factor
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    The secret ingredient to get on the front page of Forbes is fraud.

    • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦OP
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      In the case of SVB it wasn’t fraud though, it was more poor risk management; they didn’t hedge against an increase in interest rates and that, together with the bank run when people learned about it, killed them. But yeah, the common pattern is failure.

      • @supercriticalcheese
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        741 year ago

        Calling using client funds as collateral for risky investments (over and over again) as poor risk management it is a bit of an understatement.

        • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦OP
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          It wasn’t technically illegal nor was it fraud since it had an exemption from the Volcker Rule you’re referring to.

          • @[email protected]
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            It’s illegal to misrepresent what you are using your clients funds for, as was proved in court.

            Edit: wait, I think that was SBF rather than SVB. Why are these acronyms so similar :(

            • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦OP
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              361 year ago

              wait, I think that was SBF rather than SVB. Why are these acronyms so similar :(

              it doesn’t help that they were both featured on Forbes 😅

            • @psycho_driver
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              61 year ago

              All they needed to do was put “Hookers and blow on yachts” in really, really small print somewhere.

      • @Chocrates
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        11 year ago

        Do banks have the authority to freeze withdrawals?
        I don’t get why SVP didn’t just block all withdrawals as the panic set it.

    • @[email protected]
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      They’ve got it rigged so the house wins though. The secret is crime, know theirs and do some yourself and you get to run the house until they need a fall guy.

  • IHeartBadCode
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    Forbes isn’t handing out a kiss of death. Forbes is just a publication gushing about the headliners of a rapacious and fraudulent group of people. It’s like wondering why a bakery smells like bread.

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      or why a whore’s breath smells like cum

      (i’m implying Forbes are a bunch of cocksucking whores, in case you are still in junior high)

      • Electric_Druid
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        161 year ago

        Of all the things to say, you really picked this huh?

        • @howsetheraven
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          101 year ago

          Even busted out the parenthetical for clarity. A professional at work.

      • @RedAggroBest
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        91 year ago

        Sex work is real work and not your generic insult.

        (USING ANY GROUP AS AN INSULT ALSO INSULTS THAT GROUP, IN CASE YOU’RE ALSO IN THAT “THATS RETARDED” PHASE)

        • theodewere
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          your awareness is almost blinding… give my love to the sex workers… i mean i think it’s right to raise awareness. it’s also right for sex workers to be aware of how their breath smells…

  • WhiteHotaru
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    551 year ago

    There was a meme in Germany during Chancellor Merkel’s time in office. As soon as Merkel “expressed her utmost confidence” in someone, that person resigned shortly afterwards.

    • @[email protected]
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      Not getting explicitly into “capitalism bad,” but yeah, anytime someone becomes a billion dollar property overnight you should assume it’s a scam or a crime.

  • @psycho_driver
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    181 year ago

    It gets even worse. They could threaten to have some rando write a blog post about you.

  • some pirate
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    171 year ago

    Photo

    Destroyed the country’s income by privatizing oil, raised poorness to 60% unemployment to 70% worked with the literal drug cartel until his candidate got fucking murdered during the emergency election, which BTW was called after the government got dissolved because of Pandora papers leaks

  • @ohlaph
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    21 year ago

    These fuckers are taking everything from the people.