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Blue Kryptonite and naked short selling
Within minutes of my introduction to the world of short selling hedge funds, I encountered the analogy that remains the best suited to describe the truth to which they subscribe: Bizarro World.
Patrick Byrne on New England Cable News
Patrick Byrne recently appeared on New England Cable News to discuss the state of the fight against illegal naked short selling.
Naked short selling – redefining systemic risk
There is some evidence suggesting the federal government might be spending tens of billions of dollars to deal with the accumulation of failed trades caused by illegal naked short selling. If that's true, we're probably screwed.
The short heard ’round the world
Over the next few minutes, you’re going to learn something you should have already known, but almost certainly do not. You’re going to learn more about what really sparked the global financial meltdown. You’re going to learn that it was a criminal enterprise. You’re even going to learn who might have been responsible.
Hedge funds reading tomorrow's headlines today
Fairfax Financial Holdings (NYSE:FFH) was first listed on the NYSE on December 20, 2002. During its first 15…
January 3, 2009
Hedge funds reading tomorrow’s headlines today
Fairfax Financial Holdings (NYSE:FFH) was first listed on the NYSE on December 20, 2002. During its first 15…
January 3, 2009
Rocker Partners and Bethany McLean: the smarmiest guys in the room
the evidence shows that Rocker Partners hedge fund first approached Bethany McLean about Fairfax on December 7, 2006. Bethany then met with Rocker Partners employee (and former SEC attorney) Richard Sauer 11 days later, and presumably began work on what would become her March 6, 2007 article The inside story of a Wall Street battle royal shortly thereafter.
The word on TheStreet.com
One of the central theses of The Story of Deep Capture, Mark Mitchell’s epic work of media criticism,…
December 18, 2008
Bethany McLean: your benefit of the doubt is hereby revoked
There’s no sense denying it: reporters depend on sources, and in the mind of most business journalists, a…
December 16, 2008
A Ponzi Scheme that is Bigger than Bernard Madoff’s
Bernard L. Madoff’s fraud is “stunning,” says the SEC. It is a crime of “epic proportions.” But, says…
December 13, 2008