[jasode]

>, the story boils down to

To clarify further, only one sub-story (the "corporate cops" that's in the title) can be summarized to that.

The article's title is misleading as the full text is really a mismash brain dump of 7 subtopics that doesn't seem to have a unifying theme. (Note the subtitle is "Also data science, Hovnanian, demo platforms, Jack Dorsey and bond liquidity.") The 7 boldfaced sections:

  The corporate police.
  Data.
  Everybody won in the Hovnanian trade.
  Oops.
  CEO skill.
  People are worried about bond market liquidity.
  Things happen.

(The other 6 topics are unrelated to "corporate cops".)

[stupidcar]

It's an opinion column. Such things frequently cover multiple topics under different subheadings. It's not a "mishmash brain dump", it's just regular journalism, as has been practiced for decades.

[jasode]

> it's just regular journalism,

I did not intend "brain dump" to be a negative criticism but to explain further what the _full_ text article is about. It's a mishmash of various unrelated topics and I was hoping my clarification would encourage readers to look at the rest of the article.

>Such things frequently cover multiple topics under different subheadings.

Yes, this is why I took the trouble to paste all 7 subtopics/subtitles -- so readers can quickly see that.

The article's prominent title is only 1/7th of the whole story and the gp's summary is incomplete and may unintentionally steer potential readers away from the other 6/7ths of the text. (E.g. the section about Jack Dorsey doubling the stock price and the section about "data science" being the new knowledge baseline -- has nothing to do with the section about corporate police enforcing laws against Chinese shell companies.)

[creaghpatr]

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[Noumenon72]

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