Emails show journalist rigged Wikipedia’s naked shorts

01 October 2008 by Judd Bagley

Writing from the pages of a makeshift website known as AntiSocialMedia.net, Bagley has accused Gary Weiss of not only rigging Wikipedia but flooding countless blogs and stock message boards with anonymous vitriol meant to undermine Patrick Byrne and his views on naked shorting. And he says that Weiss has worked in tandem with several others, including a man named Floyd Schneider.

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WSJ Skips Scandal, Fills Page with Fudge

29 September 2008 by Mark Mitchell

Well, predictably enough: Arturo is back! As our regular readers will recall, Arturo Bris, a professor in Switzerland, issued a report last summer claiming that the SEC’s emergency order banning naked short selling of 19 financial stocks had harmed “market efficiency.” He even claimed that the ban had caused the 19 stocks to lose value [...]

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Washington Mutual: Price versus Failures-to-Deliver

26 September 2008 by Patrick Byrne

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How did you know all this was coming?

25 September 2008 by Judd Bagley

Patrick Byrne on Fox Business Channel answers the question: "How did you know all this was coming?"

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The Simple Truth About Naked Short Selling – A Bit Late

24 September 2008 by Mark Mitchell

More than two years ago, Patrick Byrne, the future Deep Capture reporter, had dinner with an editor of one of the nation’s most important newspapers. The editor said, “I know the media has not been fair to you on the naked short selling issue. Would you like to write an editorial?” Patrick said, “Sure, but [...]

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More right than wrong

22 September 2008 by Judd Bagley

Fox Business: Neil Cavuto says Patrick Byrne has been "more right than wrong on this stuff."

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They can’t say he didn’t warn them.

21 September 2008 by Judd Bagley

Video of Patrick Byrne sounding the alarm on Wall Street, as long as three years ago.

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The Week the World Said “Naked Short Selling”

19 September 2008 by Mark Mitchell

Make no mistake: what you witnessed this week was not some natural process – an economy “souring,” a bubble “bursting.” This was not the “invisible hand” at work. This was not even capitalism. This was the premeditated, systematic destruction of market value by an elite crowd of Wall Street cronies who no doubt cackled with [...]

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The Short Seller Myth of “Market Efficiency”

12 September 2008 by Mark Mitchell

By the way, why am I wasting my time with this? Who cares about these screwball statistics?The SEC is talking about protecting companies from getting clobbered by illegal market manipulation. The SEC is talking about stopping a crime and upholding the basic tenet of capitalism and correct human conduct that says that someone who sells something had darn well better deliver it.

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A Bad Day for Criminals and the Journalists Who Love Them

10 September 2008 by Mark Mitchell

The mainstream financial media says that the SEC should not crack down on criminal short sellers because short sellers are vital to the markets (and vital ghost-writers of a lot of what appears in the financial media). But much of the world has come to understand the enormity of the illegal short selling scandal, and [...]

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