Lecture on abuse of social media by stock manipulators
I recently lectured business students at the University of Texas, on the topic of abuse of social media…
Voting is over…looks like Deep Capture won.
Though the results will not be certified until Thursday, January 15, it would appear Deep Capture will be…
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
Best business blog of 2008: where to vote
Voting does not open until January 5th, but until then, bookmark this link and prepare to vote early…
Deep Capture named finalist for best business blog of 2008!
Yesterday we received an unexpected bit of good news: Deep Capture is a finalist in the competition for…
A hedge fund suite for Richard Sauer
In a recent interview, SEC whistleblower Gary Aguirre offered his insights into the regulatory failings that allowed the…
December 29, 2008
Spyro Contogouris and the gentle art of hedge fund persuasion
Among the disturbing facts contained in the recently unsealed documents obtained via discovery in the Fairfax Financial (NYSE:FFH)…
December 24, 2008
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
Introducing John Hempton: the Plunderer from Down Under
While an examination of the recently-unsealed products of discovery in the Fairfax Financial (NYSE:FFH) vs. SAC Capital, el al, lawsuit reveals the extensive involvement of most all the usual players -- both in the world of hedge funds and business journalism -- one name, mostly unknown to those outside Fairfax circles, appears quite prominently: John Hempton of Sydney Australia.