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So What Did You Think of the Sausage? Vote…
It is somewhat of a seller’s market at the moment: journalists are banging at my door (figuratively), documentary makers wish to speak with me,...
Come See the Sausage Being Made
The Washington Post has published an online piece by Abha Bhattarai, who tells me that it (or, I sense, a longer version) will be...The Big O: A Closing Word
Nothing is more tacky than an ex-CEO hanging around his former firm and kibitzing what they are doing. On the other hand, given that...A Message to My Former Colleagues at Overstock
Dear Erstwhile Teammates, As you will learn from an SEC filing today, over this past week all my shares in OSTK were sold....The SEC Cries “Bazoomba!”
A man moves to a new town and is invited to a locals’ poker game hosted by that town’s grandee. The newcomer goes to...On Any Other Day That Might Seem Strange
Yesterday the shares on loan in OSTK actually increased by 170,000. Given that OSTK is indeed on the Reg SHO list, that should not...What’s Crazier: The SEC or the Truth About James…
News from the grassroots of Wall Street has been reaching me. An old friend from Staten Island, who seems to be wired into most...Philosophy, Poker, & Pigeons
“If you ever sit down at a poker table and in 15 minutes you haven’t figured out who the pigeon is, you’re the pigeon.”...Felix Sater Says He Was Not Source of Russian…
This may seem like a funny time to be doing this, but it is the right thing to do. Buried in the past of...Maria Butina and I, Part Deux: Romancing Maria
At this point I am going to be discrete, other than to say that contact was re-established with Men in Black (I avoid using...Subscribe to Deep Capture
The Deep Capture Analysis
The Setting
The Crime
- The Crime: Naked Short Selling
- The Corporate Democracy Hoax
- Ruined Firms & Looted Pensions
- System Risk
The Cover-up