Despite its high-profile venture capitalists, it never found the greater fool it so badly needed.

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Cynical types suspect that any and all efforts will be made to skew economic data towards the positive in the coming months and traders may be buying into that cynicism as a variation on the greater fool theory of investing.

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If the player can find these, he can modify them, either to give himself greater riches or to fool the other players' machines to believe that such events have occurred.

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