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"Activist investors" engage in what will be considered a crime in the near future, which is purchasing shares to obtain board ownership -> take in obscene amounts of debt for stock buybacks -> dump shares and let the company fall into bankruptcy. I prefer their original name "corporate raiders".



How is this allowed? If companies by same activist investors regularly go into bankruptcy, the creditors must be able to point that out and get some restrictions placed in their favor, no?




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