At least according to some past journalism about him he's a genius. An evil genius, but a genius nonetheless. This isn't about shorting stocks. It's about aggr

At least according to some past journalism about him he's a genius. An evil genius, but a genius nonetheless. This isn't about shorting stocks. It's about aggressive price discovery. He went up to an unreasonable price of $750 per tablet so that he can then bring the price down to the point where the public outcry stops. What's certain is that at the end, the price will be far above where it started, and he'll be extremely rich. He's essentially negotiating with all of us to set a price that the market will bear and which makes us hate him and his company less. The goal is to find the absolute highest possible price for this drug. It's not like the world stopped needing this drug when he did this - while he adjusts the price the drug is still sold far above where it used to be. Lesson: It's easy to make a billion dollars if you don't give a shit about what the world thinks of you. That said, I'm sure a lot of people could make a lot of money from this by buying shares of the company Retrophin, which he founded, and whose value dropped 10% just today. But if you're like me you can't in good conscience profit from his sociopathy. What I worry about is other companies seeing that they can get away with this and upping their prices as well.