Subscribe to this blog's feedThe great man is indebted to the London Evening Standard for what follows. “You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then you execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows.
“The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by a majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. You sell one cow to buy a new President of the United States, leaving you with nine cows. The public then buys your bull.”
Sound familiar? Yup, it’s
venture capitalism, Enron-style!
