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    Comment #12644869

    exactly, please change the title or the article

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    Comment #12566396

    Read 10-Ks and 10-Qs and build operating models in excel.

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    Comment #12498429

    While I think this is a good idea and people who want to buy small homes may use it the math is pretty hilarious. Individuals want to be levered as much as they can to the house th…

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    Comment #10495838

    Good article, and I agree with the main points. However, you have to be very careful comparing PE ratios between companies with different capital structures, it is wrong. For examp…

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    Comment #8012502

    Its common to go from maybe 1mm mcap to 40mm but not all the way to 4bn. To cross a bn valuation is insane.

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    Comment #7026997

    If they really though there was fraud, why wouldnt they have taken a huge short position and reported to the SEC, accelerating the winddown process. This is what saba did with the …

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    Comment #7026479

    This is a very misleading article in my opinion. Investment banks provide investors access to risks which they want, in this case investors WANTED access to Madoff structured notes…

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    Comment #777469

    Obviously "matt" has not worked in the finance industry and clearly does not understand how banking works. Sounds decent in theory but in reality the bank would have no investors a…

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    Comment #777365

    This article is very naive and poorly researched. Obviously there are less people with a net worth of over 30 million now!?!?!? Hmm I wonder why? Obviously mcdonalds workers are no…

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    Comment #777274

    Not to be negative but I saw their pitch at Duke and they actually embellished the amount of users on thier facebook app and stole information from other teams in a pitch competiti…

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