ClaimsBill Ackman

“I actually had an even better idea we want to speak about, another GDP type idea, but it was not liquid enough to get here.”

Bill Ackman, speaking at Ira Sohn Conference 6 June 2011 Transcript of Bill Ackman's Super Fast Speech at the Ira Sohn Conference (Insider Monkey)

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Bill Ackman says he had an even better GDP-type idea but it was not liquid enough to present at the conference.

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Reasoning

Unnamed idea and subjective judgement of being better and illiquid cannot be tested.

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Bill Ackman, “Bill Ackman says he had an even better GDP-type idea but it was not liquid enough to present at the conference.” (said 6 June 2011). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_99d3927a354f, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_99d3927a354f

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