What's The Matter With Boca?

I think the commenters on the recent post about scams originating in Florida pretty much got it exactly right.  The state's lenient bankruptcy laws makes it a haven for various fly-by-night operations, like diploma mills (including schools that specialize in creation science) and services that will store your baby's umbilical cord blood for future use.  And, of course, stock scams a plenty.  If the movie Boiler Room had been realistic, it'd have been set in Boca Raton.  In addition, you have to figure that the high number of wealthy (or desperate), but nonetheless naive retirees also makes the area an attractive one for this crowd.  Of course, where bankruptcy is an attractive business option, you'd expect plenty of lawyers specializing in bankruptcy.

And here's a list of publicly traded companies with headquarters in Boca that list on the major exchanges.  And here's the list of the (predictably numerous) companies that trade on the Bulletin Board of the Pink Sheets.  If anyone wants to put together a Marketocracy portfolio of Boca Raton companies and then tell us how that would've done, that'd be way awesome.   

By the way, our favorite company of the pink sheets has to be vfinance.com (VFIN.ob).  It appears to be passing itself off as some sort of marketplace for venture capital transactions.  What's great is that at the top of the company's page, it touts the fact that it's highly ranked in Google and Yahoo for the search term "Venture Capital", which essentially means that it's got some SEO wiz kids helping it out.  You can check out the site by copying and pasting the name.  Figure they don't need another link, given how good it's already ranking.

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