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by jazzyjackson 2499 days ago
Why would I pick a company to short, and then pay someone to bad mouth that company?

Seems like a lot less risk to pay analysts to find possible frauds, and then short them while disclosing what they found.

The Netflix series "Dirty Money" introduced me to this concept, episode 3 "Drug Short" covers the analysts who called out Valeant Pharmaceuticals and took a pay day for their hard work through shorting the stock. Really I found it inspirational :)