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

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His deal for the company was built around an employee stock-ownership plan that would create big gains for them if Zell later sold to another buyer--a greater fool?

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But taken to extremes, this is greater-fool investing, and it has a way of ending badly.

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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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