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With circular deals it’s hard to tell.
by grey-area 2mo ago
With circular deals it’s hard to tell.
- scotty79 2mo agoIf nobody is gaining, nobody is losing.
- TZubiri 2mo agoEven if topline is being artificially inflated for marketing reasons, if there's a pile of offsetting contracts, I would imagine there's always a risk of a differential in conditions that causes them to resolve asymmetrically. If company A and company B both have 100T$ of contracts with each other and 1T market cap each, it's hard to actually make them inert, any slight miscalc and one company goes bankrupt and its assets go to the winner. Hard to imagine a perfectly identical offsetting transaction let alone triangular or circular.
- rightbyte 2mo agoNvidia and constructions companies certainly are. And a lot of middle men...