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29 Jan, 6 tweets, 2 min read
In light of Robinhood lying about its liquidity position and then subsequently raising capital, lets take a stroll down memory lane:

“Lehman raises $4 billion of capital to hush critics” - April 2008

reuters.com/article/us-leh…
Washington Mutual to Get $7 Billion in Fresh Capital - April 2008 cnbc.com/id/24011140?__…
“Deutsche Bank raises capital, and changes course” - March 2017 economist.com/finance-and-ec…
E-Trade Gets $2.5 Billion from Citadel Investment - Nov 2007 cnbc.com/2007/11/29/etr…
MF Global betrayed the trust of its clients and the public - just as Robinhood has - but it didn’t raise capital prior to its bankruptcy. The examples I’m including in this thread focus on financial companies who raised capital yet subsequently failed or felt serious pain:
“Knight Capital to open for trade after rescue deal” August 2012, I don’t think they lied but were hit by some very bad lucky I believe

bbc.com/news/business-…

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That could be you or me ... markets humble all.
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I don’t personally know Melvin/Plotkin, and I don’t know if this is true, but if it is, it would partly explain why @StevenACohen2 backed him earlier this week. Not to mention that Plotkin probably made a lot of money for Cohen over the years.
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Less profitable than -50%?

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If losing -50% is your idea of profitable? what's your idea of unprofitable?

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amirite!?
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