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I agree with much of that (@andyfallsoff). It's basically financial engineering.
My opening point was that it's not as different to what lots of companies do as people posting seemed to believe. And I think the same applies here because the fortunes of many companies are higly dependent on a particular indicator heading in the right direction. eg the oil price, or price of other commodities if they are mining them, interest rates for lots of financial services businesses, etc.
My view is that the main difference is not the principle of what he is doing vs loads of other big corporates, but that he has had a lot more success as measured by financial metrics than others.
Does that necessarily make him a nice person, a force for good in the world, guaranteed to be successful in the future - no to all of those.