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Patrick Byrne gives Jim Chanos the Business, Episode I
Patrick Byrne responds to short seller Jim Chanos on Fox Business Network.
June 5, 2009
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
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
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.
December 21, 2008
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.
December 17, 2008
Bethany McLean: your benefit of the doubt is hereby revoked
There’s no sense denying it: reporters depend on sources, and in the mind of most business journalists, a…
December 16, 2008