Via MR - UBS analysts following Wal*Mart in the US have started using satellites to count how many cars are in Wal*Mart parking lots and basing their analysis on that.
Free money therefore available for anyone with the time and inclination to drive a lot of cars into some Wal*Mart lots and take a big short position. Or even (my colleague Tom suggests) just stacking cardboard cars into the lots - how good does a cardboard car have to be before a casual look at a satellite photo won't spot the difference?
Or you could get some kind of camouflage effect going on, like this from America in WW2. (With a changing display showing different numbers of cars)
Posted by: Jacqui | 19 August 2010 at 10:58