Professor William Black Flunks Bethany McLean for Giving Hall Passes to Goldman Sachs and Wall Street

18 August 2012 by Patrick Byrne

I first heard of William K. Black over 20 years ago as the regulator who had stood up to the “Keating 5″ and come out the hero of the S&L crisis (in which I gained some early experience: hence my awareness of him). Later, as a professor of law and economics at University of Missouri in [...]

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Barron’s Gary Weiss Caught Plagiarizing Matt Taibbi, Find-Replaces Style With Spin

07 August 2012 by Patrick Byrne

Barron's published an essay cribbed from a previously-published essay by a competing magazine's journalist in a plagiarization so bald it would not pass muster in one of those companies that sell term papers to college undergraduates.

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Apparently, The Turtles Run Only to Neil Barofsky

22 July 2012 by Patrick Byrne

A story is told that Bertrand Russell, while teaching for a year in India, was once interrupted from a lecture on modern cosmology by an audience member who declared, “The universe rides on the back of a turtle.” To which Russell replied, “But what’s the turtle ride on?” “Another turtle,” replied the audience member. Insisted [...]

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Joe Floren Screws the Pooch

15 May 2012 by Patrick Byrne

The first time I heard Joe Floren speak I was standing behind him in an elevator in his law firm’s San Francisco office tower  as another lawyer informed him that the subpoena Joe Floren had served the previous day on a colleague of mine had reached her in the hospital, after a difficult delivery of [...]

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The Global Bust-Out Series (Chapter 1): Was the United States Attacked by “Financial Terrorists”?

02 May 2012 by Mark Mitchell

Introduction to a multi-chapter, book-length story that willl leave little doubt that the United States has been attacked by financial terrorists, some of whom have ties to jihadist outfits and rogue states, others of whom are prominent fixtures of the American establishment.

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On any other day that might seem strange: Ali Nazerali Wants His Past Sealed in Orwell’s Memory Hole

23 January 2012 by Patrick Byrne

In October 2011, Ali Nazerali, a Canadian resident who has operated boiler rooms (though he denies it) and whose business relationships drew the scrutiny of DeepCapture, went to court in British Columbia to obtain an injunction ordering DeepCapture to be vanished.  In an ex parte proceeding (meaning that DeepCapture was not even notified of the proceedings, [...]

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From “the corner of Wall and Broad with pitchforks and nooses”: My April, 2006 letter to the Wall Street Journal

25 September 2011 by Patrick Byrne

Here’s the Naked Truth About Overstock.com Gandhi said, “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you. Then you win.” Holman Jenkins Jr.’s April 12 Business World column “Do Nudists Run Wall Street?” moves us to stage No. 3: It contains the normal amount of distortion I have come to expect [...]

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A Respectful Invitation to All Hoodlums, Cutpurses, Thugs and Assorted Miscreants Named Herein

16 September 2011 by Patrick Byrne

Mark Mitchell’s writings seem to be striking a nerve, at last. After months of no response but silence, in the last few weeks DeepCapture has suddenly been receiving all manner of Nasty-Grams and intimidating phone calls from various people and organizations mentioned in Mark’s work. The similarity of the threats would almost make one think [...]

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29 April 2011 by Mark Mitchell

Chapter 1 of a book-length story about the financial underworld and the vulnerability of the U.S. markets to deliberate attacks

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The Miscreants’ Global Bust-Out: Preface

28 April 2011 by Patrick Byrne

In some respects the financial crisis is what the Mafia calls a "bust-out", but on a gigantic scale.

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