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-1 Post author: Clarity 05 May 2016 12:08AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 02 July 2016 03:26:47AM 0 points [-]

The best evidence is that while firms frequently advertise to get people to buy their products, they almost never advertise to get people to buy their stock.

I've seen adds that I suspect were actually targeting potential investors. Granted this was followed by the company in question exploding spectacularly a few years later with the executives being charged with fraud.