When someone like this does something like this, it is not an economic act. It is a signal of some kind, a move in an opaque chess game, whose players are nowhere near as smart as they think they are.

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scrps 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I always thought the opposite was true like whales breaking up orders for various reasons like not moving the market too much over things like portfolio adjustments, secrecy, etc?

	▲	ralfd 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I guess his fund did obfuscate the selling, or the selloff would have been known before the legally required disclosure.

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amelius 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Or maybe he just found out he suffers from some incurable disorder and now needs the money to build research centers to find a cure, because AI won't help obviously.

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BurningFrog 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"Someone like this" leaves a ton to the reader's imagination.

	▲	nine_k 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		A billionaire, especially a somehow secretive one. There are thousands of "people like this" to choose from, dozens of them with some publicity.

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markus_zhang 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Maybe this?

Finance is the gun. Politics is to know when to pull the trigger!

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zafarrancho 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Interesting. Do you have any examples?

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bamboozled 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So not 4d chess ?

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