Comment Comment by SonOfLilit 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-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-... parent SonOfLilit 10 years ago
Chartering fast ships is from 1790, see e.g.: 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-...