Watch This Documentary: Betting on Zero (Patreon)

Hey All,

When I came up with the idea for News Bursts upon launching Colin's Last Stand's Patreon, I had always intended on interspersing documentary and book recommendations in there as well. Thing is, while I'm reading more voraciously in my scarce spare time since I have in college (five 350+ page books in two months... not terrible), I've not had a chance to watch (nonetheless recommend) many documentaries. (Really anything of note, recently, as sad as that is.)

So, expect these kinds of posts (along with book recommendations) coming faster and more furious for those of you at the $5+/month level. I want to really give this tier more additive value, and more value to those above, as well, and I think a lot of you (if not virtually all of you) are like me: You like a good documentary, no matter what the subject matter is. Because we're curious people.

Tonight, I just wanted to alert you to a really great documentary I just watched, one called Betting on Zero. It was released this year, and is currently free to watch on Netflix in the US.

Betting on Zero revolves around the short sale of the health supplement company called Herbalife, which has been accused by some -- including by a well-known investor who bet $1 billion of his firm's money on Herbalife's demise -- as being a shameless pyramid scheme, perhaps the biggest, most lucrative, and most destructive of all-time.

Do yourself a favor: If you were ignorant of the Herbalife situation like I was, don't look it up on Google or anything. Just go in blind.

The documentary is thought-provoking, fun to watch, lengthy, and extremely sad. I think the CLS audience will really like it.

A fresh News Burst will go live tomorrow. Until then, I hope you're all well, and that you have a fantastic evening (it's night here in California, anyway). -Colin