Investors flocked to invest heavily in the San Podino Gold Company on the strength of a glowing prospectus. The prospectus glowed far more brightly than the "Fool's Gold" (iron pyrites) which was what the mine eventually yielded, and the shareholders swiftly found themselves holding the bag. Oddly, the two partners in the ill-fated enterprise escaped financially unscathed, a fact that did not go unremarked. Berrenton and Fallon...