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AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦 to Lemmy Shitpost · 2 years ago

Forbes' kiss of death

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Forbes' kiss of death

AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦 to Lemmy Shitpost · 2 years ago
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  • 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.

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

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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.

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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 :(

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              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 😅

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

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        Damn I also read yours as SBF at first

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        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.

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          In theory yes:

          A bank can temporarily suspend withdrawals to stop a run; this is called suspension of convertibility.

          (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_run)

          But IMO freezing withdrawals would just add even more panic when the last thing you want as a bank is have more clients be anxious about their money.

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      F IS FOR FRIENDS WHO DO STUFF TOGETHER

      • PainInTheAES
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        O IS FOR OLIGAAAARCHY

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          R is Reprehensible behaaaavior

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            B is for Bribery

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              E is for Endless profits from exploitation

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            Down here in the deep blue sea! 🎶

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    I’m beginning to think these stock market guys are just gambling

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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.

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    forbs cover Elon Musk

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      🤞

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      That looks like a mashup of Elon and Chris Pratt

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        Yeah that’s been shopped to hell and back.

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      Twink death

      Twink death

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      EFT buyer guide hahahaha

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        Read it again, genius.

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          Ooops, never mind.

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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)

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

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

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        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)

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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…

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      Don’t give us hope

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        Don’t give us hope

        No hope?

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          That is just awesome art, btw

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      My boy just can’t stop winning

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    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.

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    It’s almost like big business is fishy.

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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.

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        Capitalism is what people make of it. But it seems it’s getting less easy to cheat.

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          You should do standup, that was hilarious.

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          My brain hurt at first until I realized you were joking. Good one!

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    Removed by mod

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      Just like we have an Inverse Cramer ETF, maybe it’s time for an Inverse Forbes ETF too

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

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    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

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    It’s like the Madden curse but in finance.

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    These fuckers are taking everything from the people.

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