What does GF stand for?

Greater Fool

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Business, finance, etc.

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Samples in periodicals archive:

So other than being nice to have, the case for investing in gold looks to me like another example of the greater fool theory.

Don't be fooled by gold -- it's never shone as a hedge against ...

They have applied the Greater Fool Theory in the false belief that they would always be able to sell their house or their stocks or bonds or other highly leveraged assets to “bigger fools” than they were for buying them in the first place.

This Ponzi scheme makes Madoff look small

It s a greater fool theory if we always buy stocks based on earnings and we never get a penny out of it, hoping for someone to buy that stock at a higher price, said James Swanson, chief investment strategist at MFS Investment Management in Boston, which oversees $134 billion.

United States: Dividends Falling Means S&P 500 Is Still Expensive

Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it.

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Fabulous means-tested benefits are increased in line with wages, making even greater fools out of those who struggled to save for modest pensions.

Beware tax-sucking vampire; LETTERS

Last month a greater fool came along and paid $4,160,000.

Humbugs, scallywags, hustlers and fools

However, at the end of the day, if implemented successfully, these opportunities are not rewarded by the greater fool theory.

How to survive in 2005

There was not a lot of rationality in the market, and the Greater Fool theory dominated.

Rationality now driving servicing prices