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*** And if they did go bankrupt? To be blunt, its would be their own fault for gambling unwisely. If you don't want to accept the risk of losing your investment, then ''don't invest'' -- especially in something as volatile and fast-paced as short-selling commodities futures.
** In addition, the only part of Winthorpe and Ray's plan that was an "active measure" outside the normal market processes was targeted at and affected only the Dukes. Nobody else would have seen the faked crop report, and so would have based all of their investment decisions based on the same information they would have based it on if Winthorpe and Ray had never existed.
*** Well, they are also engaged in insider trading because they are using their advance knowledge of the genuine crop report to set up their own play, but while that is both illegal and unethical its not actually going to bankrupt anyone else by itself.
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