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The greatest fool shows up

You’ve heard, of course, of the “greater fool” strategy, in which a buyer pays a foolish price for something, betting that someone else will pay even more? Well, it looks like the greatest fool of all showed up at Sotheby’s auction house earlier this month. It brokered

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