Mark Mitchell
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Short-Sellers Spin Themselves Silly, SEC Sounds Strong
After years of intermittently ignoring and whitewashing one of history’s biggest financial swindles, the Wall Street Journal today, for the first time, published some basic truths about the crime: “Illegitimate naked short selling is different from [legal short-selling]…this kind of manipulative activity can have drastic consequences…Eliminating the prospect of naked short selling will help assure investors that… when the market declines it is not because of unseen manipulators and `distort and short’ artists.”
We ♥ Jim Cramer
In “The Story of Deep Capture,” we noted that CNBC’s Jim Cramer is at the center of a clique of dishonest journalists (most of them former employees of Cramer’s website, TheStreet.com) who have spent many years taking dictation for short selling hedge funds (most of them connected to Cramer). These same journalists, we pointed out, have steadfastly denied that hedge funds commit crimes or that illegal naked short selling is a big problem.
How Naked Short Sellers and CNBC Bamboozled the SEC
You can bet that the hedge fund talking points were rolling off the CNBC fax machine last week,…
The SEC Declares Emergency, and Joe Nocera Yammers On
Naked short selling and phantom stock causes the SEC to declare emergency; Joe Nocera and affiliated journalists continue to deny there is a problem.
A Scandal Unfolds, and the Media Mob Scampers
CNBC's Jim Cramer acknowledges that Patrick Byrne was right about naked short sellers
JP Morgan CEO is Crazy, Too. Time to Subpoena CNBC
Certain journalists and convicted criminals with ties to hedge funds have suggested that we at Deep Capture are…
Vanity Fair Reports “Greatest Financial Scandal in History”
You read it here first. But if you don’t believe us, hear it from Vanity Fair instead. In…
Did a CNBC Reporter Help Destroy Bear Stearns?
Mark Mitchell of Deep Capture shows that CNBC's David Faber and a hedge fund contributed to the collapse of Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns.