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How Billionaires Use the Government as a Tool to Destroy Companies They've Bet Against

Les Leopold comments_image 35 COMMENTS Alternet
This is the heart of the new financialism and it is happening all over the country. If this were just one isolated case, we could probably live with it. It might even lead to a new law that would outlaw Ackman's outrageous behavior. But this kind of de-creative destruction is now a central feature of our new financialized economy. It is now routine for big-time investors to make bets against companies and then try to bring those companies down using a variety of tactics.
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