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Re: The unsolved murder of an unusual billionaire

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Post by zawerf »

rdtsc wrote: post #11

I am kind of surprised billionaires and CEOs don't order each others' killings more often. I was doing homework one night and the building next door's top 2 floors were blown up because some banker had a hit placed on his head. So perhaps I have pretty low expectations on what powerful people without morals can do.

It is indeed surprising because the profit motive is there and it is not limited to just rival billionaires.

Any random guy with enough capital can short the company stock and then place a hit on the CEO.

I would expect stuff like that to happen super often but I don't think I have even heard of one real case like this.

Re: The unsolved murder of an unusual billionaire

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Post by Consultant32452 »

rdtsc wrote: post #11

I am kind of surprised billionaires and CEOs don't order each others' killings more often. I was doing homework one night and the building next door's top 2 floors were blown up because some banker had a hit placed on his head. So perhaps I have pretty low expectations on what powerful people without morals can do.

MAD. It's the same reason political leaders aren't assassinating each other all the time. If you go around assassinating other billionaires, there's a fair chance you'll get assassinated in response by others.

Re: The unsolved murder of an unusual billionaire

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Post by kasey_junk »

zawerf wrote: post #21
rdtsc wrote: post #11

I am kind of surprised billionaires and CEOs don't order each others' killings more often. I was doing homework one night and the building next door's top 2 floors were blown up because some banker had a hit placed on his head. So perhaps I have pretty low expectations on what powerful people without morals can do.

It is indeed surprising because the profit motive is there and it is not limited to just rival billionaires. Any random guy with enough capital can short the company stock and then place a hit on the CEO. I would expect stuff like that to happen super often but I don't think I have even heard of one real case like this.

Can you explain that trade precisely? Like with example orders/prices? I’d also be curious about how one gets reliable hitmen & deniability and the like.

Re: The unsolved murder of an unusual billionaire

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Post by dragonwriter »

Consultant32452 wrote: post #22
rdtsc wrote: post #11

I am kind of surprised billionaires and CEOs don't order each others' killings more often. I was doing homework one night and the building next door's top 2 floors were blown up because some banker had a hit placed on his head. So perhaps I have pretty low expectations on what powerful people without morals can do.

MAD. It's the same reason political leaders aren't assassinating each other all the time. If you go around assassinating other billionaires, there's a fair chance you'll get assassinated in response by others.

Moreover, if you normalize assassinating billionaires, it's not just other billionaires you need to look out for.

Re: The unsolved murder of an unusual billionaire

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Post by stevewodil »

kasey_junk wrote: post #23
zawerf wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is indeed surprising because the profit motive is there and it is not limited to just rival billionaires. Any random guy with enough capital can short the company stock and then place a hit on the CEO. I would expect stuff like that to happen super often but I don't think I have even heard of one real case like this.

Can you explain that trade precisely? Like with example orders/prices? I’d also be curious about how one gets reliable hitmen & deniability and the like.

Explain what trade? If the CEO dies the stock will go down due to the uncertainty of the future for the company.

Re: The unsolved murder of an unusual billionaire

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Post by baddox »

nostromo wrote: post #14
rdtsc wrote: post #11

I am kind of surprised billionaires and CEOs don't order each others' killings more often. I was doing homework one night and the building next door's top 2 floors were blown up because some banker had a hit placed on his head. So perhaps I have pretty low expectations on what powerful people without morals can do.

Is the only thing holding you back from murder lack of funds? If not, why do you think billionaires are any different?

If the only thing holding you back from murder is a lack of funds, you are probably more likely than average to become a billionaire.

Re: The unsolved murder of an unusual billionaire

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Post by kasey_junk »

stevewodil wrote: post #25
kasey_junk wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you explain that trade precisely? Like with example orders/prices? I’d also be curious about how one gets reliable hitmen & deniability and the like.

Explain what trade? If the CEO dies the stock will go down due to the uncertainty of the future for the company.

Right. Give me literally the orders you put in, with a timeline for the hit. Then explain the price points, liquid capital & risk stats you need to make a particular profit.

This is basic stuff for actual short sell trades so I presume it is easy to produce in the “hit a CEO” fund space.

Re: The unsolved murder of an unusual billionaire

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Post by colechristensen »

lainga wrote: post #17
Invictus0 wrote: post #9

Off topic but this cover is just so poorly designed. https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i7R8Z2i.mox...

Less so now, but in the early half of the decade Businessweek was known for its unorthodox, and often lighthearted style of graphic design. This still survives on in the Businessweek 404 ( When will Businessweek get its sh!t together?! ), but the corresponding 404 for Bloomberg itself has been replaced by something more sober.

I think I tend to trust outlets more if they don't pay so much attention into keeping up with the design style of the day.

Overfocus on this shallow surface quality has a correlation with a lack of underlying quality in the actual content. It's not that you can't have both or that I don't appreciate surface quality. But if something is ugly or simple or doesn't follow trends and has great content, it tends to remove a certain sort of person as consumer and perhaps lowers the temptation to cater to shallow desires because not many are around to get hooked.

That is, many things are better because certain parts of them are objectively worse and turn away certain people.

Re: The unsolved murder of an unusual billionaire

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Post by bilbo0s »

rdtsc wrote: post #11

I am kind of surprised billionaires and CEOs don't order each others' killings more often. I was doing homework one night and the building next door's top 2 floors were blown up because some banker had a hit placed on his head. So perhaps I have pretty low expectations on what powerful people without morals can do.

>I was doing homework one night and the building next door's top 2 floors were blown up because some banker had a hit placed on his head...

Wait. What?

Did this really happen somewhere? (Sorry for the question if it's stupid, I just was unaware of all of this.)

Re: The unsolved murder of an unusual billionaire

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Post by newsbinator »

nostromo wrote: post #14
rdtsc wrote: post #11

I am kind of surprised billionaires and CEOs don't order each others' killings more often. I was doing homework one night and the building next door's top 2 floors were blown up because some banker had a hit placed on his head. So perhaps I have pretty low expectations on what powerful people without morals can do.

Is the only thing holding you back from murder lack of funds? If not, why do you think billionaires are any different?

If television is to be believed, detective work is discovering means, motive and opportunity.

By that measure, billionaires are in any given instant 2/3rds of the way there.

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