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Short-selling as an adjunct to running a price-comparison business makes a certain kind of goofy hyper-financialized sense
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Matt Levine’s Money Stuff: Short Selling as a Business Model
published Apr 16, 2018, 9:26:30 AM, by Matt Levine (Bloomberg View) — Financialization. Twelve years ago, my now-Bloomberg colleague Joe Weisenthal proposed that startups that planned to disrupt an established industry should short the stock of the incumbents in that industry. That way, if they were right — if they