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The short heard ’round the world

Over the next few minutes, you’re going to learn something you should have already known, but almost certainly do not. You’re going to learn more about what really sparked the global financial meltdown. You’re going to learn that it was a criminal enterprise. You’re even going to learn who might have been responsible.

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.