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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...
Patrick Byrne
Sep 25, 2019 8 min read

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....
Patrick Byrne
Sep 18, 2019 5 min read

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...
Patrick Byrne
Sep 18, 2019 6 min read

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...
Patrick Byrne
Sep 17, 2019 7 sec read

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...
Patrick Byrne
Sep 16, 2019 2 min read

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.”...
Patrick Byrne
Sep 15, 2019 16 min read

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...
Patrick Byrne
Aug 30, 2019 2 min read

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...
Patrick Byrne
Aug 27, 2019 22 min read

Maria Butina and I, Part I: Meeting Maria

It is not my intent to reveal anything beyond what I recently said on TV (and likely, even less). Given that much of that...
Patrick Byrne
Aug 25, 2019 14 min read

Brace for Re-entry to the World of Deep Capture

In the years surrounding the 2008 financial crisis, this small site you are visiting had quite a following. As is noted in the header,...
Patrick Byrne
Aug 23, 2019 3 min read
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    The Deep Capture Analysis

    Introduction

    The Setting

    1. The Players (hedge funds)
    2. The Pawns (journalists)
    3. The Regulators (SEC)

    The Crime

    1. The Crime: Naked Short Selling
    2. The Corporate Democracy Hoax
    3. Ruined Firms & Looted Pensions
    4. System Risk

    The Cover-up

    1. The Deep Capture Campaign
    2. The Hijacking of Social Media

    The Miscreants’ Global Bust-Out

    Preface

    1. United States Attached by Financial Terrorists?
    2. The “Money Weapon”
    3. The BCCI Enterprise and The Financial Jihad
    4. The BCCI Enterprise: Prelude To Our Present Predicament
    5. Monzer al-Kassar, Model Citizen
    6. An Oligarchical-Organized Crime and Terrorism Syndicate (and Some Stock Promoters)
    7. Michael Milken and the “Insider Trading” Network (as of 2013)
    8. Boris Berezovsky and the “Nexus” Between Organized Crime, Terrorism, and the Global Oligarchy