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You seem really sure of yourself.

Here's the counter argument from a noted short seller:

http://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2013/07/it-was-night-befor...

http://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2013/01/notes-on-visiting-...

That was an interesting read summed up in these final lines:

"Bill Ackman a Harvard educated (magna cum laude) billionaire New York hedge fund manager bet over a billion dollars on a short position (imperilling his fund and his reputation) without checking the facts. And he did not check the facts because he was so rigid with a misplaced silver spoon that he could not stoop to sit on a subway for thirty minutes and talk with poor people for ninety minutes."

Didn't check the facts? I've seen the 200+ slide PowerPoint he made on this, he's done gobs of research.

I have to imagine that it was tongue-in-cheek. And if it wasn't, then I don't understand, either.

Without spending a minute examining the facts at ground level: i.e. checking how the company, and its distributors, actually work, not merely reading the fucking financials.

How would you do that assuming that most sales don't happen through people who regularly go to a Herbalife Nutrition Center?

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