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Re: Alan Brochstein post# 129519

Tuesday, 07/30/2013 1:37:25 PM

Tuesday, July 30, 2013 1:37:25 PM

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When writing about a company, every now and then financial writers outline the features of an imagined, ideal company that is analogous in many respects to the company about which they're writing. Then, they make comparisons between the features of the fictional, ideal company and the financial data and behavior of the real company they're analyzing in order to highlight the company's strong points and shortcomings and so on. It would be interesting if someone were to approach matters from the other direction by writing an article that takes a real company and describes what its features and behavior would be like if it were running a really good, really effective scam, and then compares the company's actual features and behavior to this "ideal scam" in order to assess the probability that the company is a scam, make an overall assertion that the company is or is not a scam, highlight the company's strong and weak points, and so on.