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Porsche's financial hack

I'm mentioned the Porsche/VW financial incident briefly in October, but this is an excellent layman's explanation of what happened.

Porsche's move took three years of careful maneuvering. It was darkly brilliant, a wealth transfer ingeniously conceived like few we've ever seen. Betting the right way, Porsche roiled the financial markets and took the hedge funds for a fortune.

(via capn design)

Update: Not so fast there, Porsche. Bloomberg says that the company may not have the money necessary to exercise those options and realize $24.3 billion in profits.

By Jason Kottke  •  Jan 12, 2009  •  finance   Porsche   volkswagen

Volkswagen = world's largest company

Volkswagen was briefly the world's largest company in terms of market cap today.

Volkswagen briefly became the world's largest company by market capitalisation on Tuesday as panic-buying by hedge funds desperate to cover losses caused its value to shoot up by up to €150bn.

Porsche revealed that it owned 74% of VW instead of the previously assumed 35%...which caused panicked buying by hedge funds. (via mr)

By Jason Kottke  •  Oct 28, 2008  •  finance   Porsche   volkswagen

Cool photos of Volkswagen's new storage facility

Cool photos of Volkswagen's new storage facility in Wolfsburg, Germany, basically a 20-story circular parking garage.

By Jason Kottke  •  May 15, 2006  •  photography   volkswagen

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