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All the ideas I gave were things that happened (or at least, that I read on the internet from reliable sources.) Chartering fast ships is from 1790, see e.g.:
by SonOfLilit 10y ago
All the ideas I gave were things that happened (or at least, that I read on the internet from reliable sources.)
Chartering fast ships is from 1790, see e.g.: http://dewinforex.com/forex-basics/high-frequency-trading-financial-predators-of-a-new-century.html http://dewinforex.com/forex-basics/high-frequency-trading-fi...
Can't find the link for the donut investor, but I'm pretty sure it was somewhere in Matt Levine's (highly recommended) Money Stuff column.
Sat imagery of parking lots appears all the time in Matt Levine's column, there is a company selling this data to hedge funds today.
Selling pounds is of course George Soros, probably the most famous story in Finance.
Wikipedia claims the Rotschild story about the Napoleonic wars is fake. I read it on Quora here: https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-shrewdest-smartest-maneuver-youve-ever-seen-in-business/answer/Chua-Hsieh-Li?srid=tWvz https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-shrewdest-smartest-maneuver-...
- justanewguy 10y agoI got most of the references, but the donut one just seems very interesting. Please tell me if anyone here manages to find it. I'll be looking too.
- hkhall 10y agoI was working for the leading print marketing company that was starting to have serious competitors and post-IPO we were really concerned that people were going to order business cards from us all the time (since they were almost free) to track our daily internal sales via order number. I can't say that we ever had hard evidence that this was happening but we thought we had suspicious activity once so we changed it. An aside, changing order number to a hash value can be a huge pain in a manufacturing environment when people have (mis)used it to for a variety of purposes beyond order identification.