http://www.deepcapture.com Independent investigations into illegal naked short selling. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:57:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ digg_url = 'http://digg.com/business_finance/Michael_Milken_and_the_Story_of_Dendreon_Chapter_7'; // ]]> What follows is PART 7 of a 15-PART series. The remaining installments will appear on Deep Capture in the coming days, after which point the story will be published in its entirety. Click here to read PART 1 Click here ... http://www.deepcapture.com/michael-milken-60000-deaths-and-the-story-of-dendreon-chapter-7-of-15/ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ digg_url = 'http://digg.com/business_finance/Michael_Milken_and_the_Story_of_Dendreon_Chapter_6'; // ]]> What follows is PART 6 of a 15-PART series. The remaining installments will appear on Deep Capture in the coming days, after which point the story will be published in its entirety. Click here to read PART 1 Click here to read PART 2 Click ... http://www.deepcapture.com/michael-milken-60000-deaths-and-the-story-of-dendreon-chapter-6-of-15/ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ digg_url = 'http://digg.com/business_finance/Michael_Milken_60_000_Deaths_and_the_Story_of_Dendreon_Ch_2'; // ]]> What follows is PART 5 of a 15-PART series. The remaining installments will appear on Deep Capture in the coming days, after which point the story will be published in its entirety. Click here to read PART 1 Click here to read PART 2 Click ... http://www.deepcapture.com/michael-milken-60000-deaths-and-the-story-of-dendreon-chapter-5-of-15/ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ digg_url = 'http://digg.com/business_finance/Michael_Milken_60_000_Deaths_and_the_Story_of_Dendreon_Ch'; // ]]> What follows is PART 4 of a 15-PART series. The remaining installments will appear on Deep Capture in the coming days, after which point the story will be published in its entirety. Click here to read PART 1 Click here to read PART 2 Click here ... http://www.deepcapture.com/michael-milken-60000-deaths-and-the-story-of-dendreon-chapter-4-of-15/ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ digg_url = 'http://digg.com/business_finance/Bernard_Madoff_and_the_attack_on_Dendreon'; // ]]> What follows is PART 3 of a 15-PART series. The remaining installments will appear on Deep Capture in the coming days, after which point ... http://www.deepcapture.com/michael-milken-60000-deaths-and-the-story-of-dendreon-chapter-3-of-15/ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ digg_url = 'http://digg.com/business_finance/Michael_Milken_and_the_Story_of_Dendreon_Chapter_2'; // ]]> What follows is PART 2 of a 15-PART series. The remaining installments will appear on Deep Capture over several weeks, after which point the story will be published in its entirety. It is a ... http://www.deepcapture.com/michael-milken-60000-deaths-and-the-story-of-dendreon-chapter-2-of-15/ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ digg_url = 'http://digg.com/business_finance/Michael_Milken_60_000_Deaths_and_the_Story_of_Dendreon_Ch1'; // ]]> What follows is part 1 of a 15-part series. The remaining installments will appear on Deep Capture over the next several weeks, after which point the story will be published in its entirety. It is a ... http://www.deepcapture.com/michael-milken-60000-deaths-and-the-story-of-dendreon-chapter-1-of-15/ For some months Mark Mitchell has been working on his next piece. It has grown into something massive, about the length of The Story of Deep Capture. It concerns Dendreon. I read it for the first time a few days ago. It is semi-infuriating. Deep Capture is going to serialize ... http://www.deepcapture.com/preview-of-a-coming-attraction-michael-milken-60000-deaths-and-the-story-of-dendreon/ http://www.deepcapture.com/patrick-byrne-on-new-england-cable-news/ http://www.deepcapture.com/patrick-byrne-gives-jim-chanos-the-business-episode-i/ The much-anticipated Deep Capture forum is now live and eagerly awaiting your participation. You can get there by clicking here, or via the link at the top of every page on the blog. At this point, the only live category is one requesting input on how to best structure the rest of ... http://www.deepcapture.com/deep-capture-forum-is-now-live/ This is the newest video from Deep Capture Productions, examining the attack on Sedona Corp, and applying the insights gained from it to the broader market -- including the possibility that the federal government has recently been spending billions of dollars to take the liability of accumulated failed trades off ... http://www.deepcapture.com/naked-short-selling-redefining-systemic-risk/ Last night, CNBC’s Jim Cramer interviewed Senator Ted Kaufman about the problem of abusive short selling. The Senator said: “We gotta have people feel that they’re getting a fair share and the market’s on the level…Clearly, every indication is that things went on in terms of short selling – both in ... http://www.deepcapture.com/with-media-absent-a-senator-reports-the-news/ The Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) met in Denver this week. Some months ago I had applied for membership on the grounds that the "Join SABEW" page on their website encourages application from those "writing, reporting, editing or overseeing business, financial or economic news for ... online ... http://www.deepcapture.com/sabew-demands-ideological-purity-members-conduct-ritualistic-self-criticism/ When announcing that Chrysler would be reorganizing under Chapter 11 today, President Obama went out of his way to highlight the role un-named hedge funds played in pushing the auto-maker to bankruptcy. "In particular, a group of investment firms and hedge funds decided to hold out for the prospect of an ... http://www.deepcapture.com/obama-finds-hedge-fund-greed-troubling/ One of the arguments made with metronomic regularity by those defending stock manipulation, and unthinkingly regurgitated by their lapdog financial reporters, is this: Demonstrate the harm caused by naked short selling (the fact of its illegality being too conceptually difficult for them to grok). Well, here is a good example. Dendreon ... http://www.deepcapture.com/dendreons-cancer-researchers-vs-hedge-funds-the-bootlick-journalists-or-whats-18-million-fails-between-friends/ You'll find our nascent Facebook group here. And you're invited to join. Dare to get to know your fellow market reformers! http://www.deepcapture.com/deep-capture-has-its-own-facebook-group/ Follow @deepcapture on twitter. Seriously. Everybody's doing it. http://www.deepcapture.com/follow-deepcapture-on-twitter/ The Deep Capture team is very pleased to present the new and vastly improved deepcapture.com. Please take a moment to orient yourself to the new design and features, each implemented in response to your requests for a site that is easier to navigate and use. Among the more interesting additions is a ... http://www.deepcapture.com/welcome-to-the-new-deep-capture/ An intrepid Deep Capture supporter Deep Capture is not just a few journalists investigating the biggest financial scandal of our era. It is part of a much larger effort – a movement that is supported by countless people. It is the former high-level banker who makes sure his senator reads our articles. ... http://www.deepcapture.com/a-word-of-thanks-to-those-who-fight-wall-street-crime/ As a rule, I avoid criticizing individual public servants. Elected officials are fair game, in my view, but not public servants. They do not wake up and go into work wanting to do a bad job, I know, and I have had too many tailwinds in life to criticize wantonly ... http://www.deepcapture.com/well-its-nice-she-landed-on-her-feet-sec-enforcement-chief-linda-thomsen-joins-davis-polk-somebody-call-kreskin/ Lest someone claim that I am but a DC-hostile, fed-fighting small "l" libertarian, let me be the first to say: Much respect goes to the GAO for their response to a Deep Capture story. Readers of Deep Capture may have noticed that, while I may not be on the best of ... http://www.deepcapture.com/government-accountability-office-gao-response-to-deep-capture/ Warning: the following video clip is not safe for work. Not because the content itself contains inappropriate language, but because of the language it will very likely evoke upon watching it. This is the final three minutes of today's Bloomberg-TV hosted debate between former SEC Commissioner Roel Campos and infamous short seller ... http://www.deepcapture.com/shocking-insights-into-the-mind-of-a-naked-short-seller/ “Accountability – Integrity – Reliability” That’s the motto of the Government Accountability Office, and it almost makes you believe that there really is a functioning watchdog – somebody, aside from us Internet loons, to investigate and report on the incompetence and malfeasance that pervade our public institutions. Certainly, there were high hopes ... http://www.deepcapture.com/our-watchdogs-and-the-financial-scandal-of-the-century/ ========================================================= (Click graph to enlarge) http://www.deepcapture.com/well-isnt-that-special/ Note: I have the privilege of being a contributor on an upstart blog where some extremely intelligent criticism of Web 2.0 is taking place. It's called Akahele.org, and I recommend adding it to your RSS reader. Akahele, if you're curious, is a Hawaiian word meaning "slow" or "deliberate", in contrast with ... http://www.deepcapture.com/weighing-the-options/ "The Matrix is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth." - Morpheus to Neo, The Matrix It is the mission of DeepCapture to show you, dear reader, that the financial world you inhabit, a world vouched-for in dulcet Midwestern tones by actor-spokesmen ... http://www.deepcapture.com/do-i-live-in-a-synthetic-reality-do-it-yourself-home-test/ This is the first anniversary of the destruction of Bear Stearns. For a while there, just after it happened, everybody was talking about the role of short selling, both legal and illegal, in Bear's rather violent passing. Since then, the big question has gone from "who the hell set this fire?" to ... http://www.deepcapture.com/the-short-heard-round-the-world/ Details to follow. In the meantime, here's the clip: .cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url('http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/assets/syndicated-logo-over.png') !important;}.cc_links a{color:#b9b9b9;text-decoration:none;}.cc_show a{color:#707070;text-decoration:none;}.cc_title a{color:#868686;text-decoration:none;}.cc_links a:hover{color:#67bee2;text-decoration:underline;}The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10cThe Money Honey BeeDaily Show Full EpisodesImportant Things w/ Demetri MartinPolitical HumorJim Cramer http://www.deepcapture.com/ouch-im-the-1st-daily-show-guest-to-owe-them-an-apology/ .cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url('http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/assets/syndicated-logo-over.png') !important;}.cc_links a{color:#b9b9b9;text-decoration:none;}.cc_show a{color:#707070;text-decoration:none;}.cc_title a{color:#868686;text-decoration:none;}.cc_links a:hover{color:#67bee2;text-decoration:underline;}The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10cJim Cramer Unedited Interview Pt. 2Daily Show Full EpisodesImportant Things w/ Demetri MartinPolitical HumorJim Cramer What should we learn from the fact that "The Daily Show's" Jon Stewart has in four evenings (1 2 ... http://www.deepcapture.com/what-we-should-learn-from-jim-cramer-vs-the-daily-shows-jon-stewart/