By bobo on
2/27/2006 3:33 PM
Cramer and TheStreet.com get the Federales knocking at the door. And all the whining by the NY press about how they are being unfairly abused is considered to be a load of hooey by Mainstreet America, per this CNBC poll...
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By bobo on
2/27/2006 9:49 AM
The Bunny has a thing or two to say about the latest declarations by the SEC's Christopher Cox, and the latest volley of media slams...
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By bobo on
2/26/2006 5:01 PM
The Bunny considers all the elements of a classic cover-up, and sanity checks the naked short selling crisis for consistency...
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By bobo on
2/25/2006 2:36 PM
I got a letter from Byrne (email, actually) and got approval to publish it - and I also have some weekend thoughts on the NY Times piece, the SEC, and our favorite "Guilty Lapdog"...NEW - NOW WITH GRAPHICS
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By bobo on
2/24/2006 9:45 PM
In this latest salvo from the venerated NY Times, Joe Nocera tries to build the case that Dr. Byrne, who has been the subject of probably close to 50 negative pieces from the NY press over the last 6 months, is actually "silencing" his critics! Honest - that is the thrust. The absurdity continues...
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By bobo on
2/24/2006 5:34 PM
Carol Remond gets a subpoena - and the bunny has the story first, again.
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By bobo on
2/23/2006 10:34 PM
Bobo asks the million dollar question - is Herb a poop eater?
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By bobo on
2/23/2006 8:50 AM
Bobo has a chitty chat with Dr. Byrne, and his sneaking suspicions are confirmed...
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By bobo on
2/22/2006 8:14 PM
Dr. Byrne is a funny guy - highly educated, erudite, careful with his use of English. Join the bunny in his "Ah ha" moment...
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By bobo on
2/22/2006 2:23 PM
Another Bad Day For Gradient
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By bobo on
2/22/2006 9:00 AM
The fur is already flying, with the air filled with excuses for why the DTCC can't be expected to be transparent....
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By bobo on
2/21/2006 8:12 PM
Bobo issues a challenge to the financial press - and isn't holding his breath for them to take him up on it...
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By bobo on
2/21/2006 8:19 AM
Bradley Abelow, former board member of the DTCC, wants to be the new NJ Treasurer. The Easter Bunny has some observations and questions, which speak to the intersection of huge money and politics...
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By bobo on
2/20/2006 10:20 AM
TheStreet breaks a shockingly revelational story: Apparently there IS naked short selling going on!!!! Gasp, sputter....
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By bobo on
2/19/2006 10:34 PM
Rod Young addressed the SEC last week, and I just now got to really listen to the meeting without distraction. Unbelievable.
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By bobo on
2/18/2006 10:18 AM
An update on miscellaneous items, including the DTCC's recent press release, and the flailing of the intellectually compromised...
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By bobo on
2/15/2006 11:16 PM
The Bunny has apparently scooped all of the NY financial press yet again. Read about it in his latest blog.
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By bobo on
2/15/2006 2:11 PM
Think this is all fun and games? As the heat is turned up, the story takes a decidely menacing tone - and I am not making this up.
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By bobo on
2/15/2006 6:55 AM
The Bunny, in his ongoing search for truth, justice, and the American way, extends an olive branch...
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By bobo on
2/14/2006 7:46 AM
The silence from the mainstream NY media over the revelations about the DTCC's subpoenas and the Formal Investigation order and subpoena questions is deafening. Who could have predicted that? Oh, that's right, I did....
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By bobo on
2/13/2006 11:20 AM
In the spirit of Pulp Fiction, the SEC goes formal on someone we all know and love's ass, and things are starting to look interesting...
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By bobo on
2/12/2006 10:37 PM
Bobo discloses that the first subpoenas have gone out to the DTCC from the State regulators in the FTD affair...
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By bobo on
2/11/2006 11:58 AM
I had a long discussion over the last few days with Dr. Jim, and I asked him for his take on the Amicus brief, as well as the whole DTCC stock borrow program and the SEC's defense of anything DTCC related. His response is encyclopedic.
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By bobo on
2/10/2006 1:20 PM
Bobo starts reading the SEC's Amicus Brief and pauses for quiet introspection....
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By bobo on
2/8/2006 9:07 PM
Roddy Boyd of the NY Post Reaches Out And Touches Dr. Byrne, CEO of OSTK.com - and Patrick Provides The Audio For Our Edification Of The Journalistic Process...
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By bobo on
2/7/2006 11:22 AM
What does it all mean? And how do we know what, if anything, is being revealed? Another wrinkle from the OSTK CC today...
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By bobo on
2/6/2006 2:56 PM
One of the top authorities in the space shares his thirteenth bullet point from his second book.
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By bobo on
2/4/2006 5:37 PM
Alan Newman of Crosscurrents fame finally got some aged data from the SEC - data which gives one a little hint as to the scope of the problem, and is mind boggling in its implications.
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By bobo on
2/4/2006 11:54 AM
Two articles today typify the crookery that is Wall Street's daily bread. Brought to you by the folks who are claiming that there is no naked short selling issue...
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By bobo on
2/3/2006 1:18 PM
Another in a totally predictable, eerily similar string of pieces designed to encourage one and all that there is no NSS problem, and if there was, that it would be good for God and Country.
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By bobo on
2/3/2006 9:24 AM
Yet more commentary on the Motley Fool's Bill Mann, and his apparently Pollyanaish perspective on NSS.
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By bobo on
2/1/2006 6:33 PM
One of the top authorities on Naked Short Selling agrees to have some of his work published, here, at TheSanityCheck.
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By bobo on
1/30/2006 11:48 PM
I have stayed out of this, primarily because I am far too cheap to pay to post on anyone's message board. But I am amused by the exchange from the MF board...
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By bobo on
1/29/2006 1:05 PM
Bobo works through the logic of the fraud argument, and arrives at a disturbing place...
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By bobo on
1/27/2006 10:03 AM
Bobo, with his amazingly keen grasp of the obvious, examines the arguments advanced by the apologists for naked short selling, and shreds them to little bloody bits.
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By bobo on
1/26/2006 2:57 PM
Gary Weiss has been wearing his little digits down to nubs writing about yours truly. In a spirit of hope for a restored friendship, the Easter Bunny tries to build bridges and mend fences. Follow along down the bunny trail as he spreads joy, as only he can do...
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By bobo on
1/25/2006 9:12 AM
The NY Post broke a story today about a Bush family friend who was sanctioned by the NASD for naked short selling - and failed to mention it to the investors in his new HEDGE FUND, for which Marvin Bush gave him an endorsement with which to woo investers...
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By bobo on
1/24/2006 12:43 PM
The DTCC issued forth a variation of the Carol Remond article via Business Wire today, spinning the recent NASAA meeting as something it clearly wasn't, and proclaiming that there is no problem with naked short selling - by quoting carefully worded (one entirely invented, apparently, by the DTCC) official position statements from the regulators, and ignoring all the input from the authorities on the subject. Bobo examines all the rhetoric and translates for the cheap seats at home...
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By bobo on
1/24/2006 7:35 AM
Former BW reporter Gary Weiss has contributed to the cyber clutter by creating his own blog, in which no dissenting opinion, contradictory facts or debunking are allowed. Needless to say this is as interesting as reading pharmaceutical pamphlets, and serve no purpose but to remind us all how dependent upon information control some segments of the press are...
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By bobo on
1/22/2006 9:10 PM
Author Gary Weiss has created a new blog, ostensibly to drum up interest for his forthcoming magnum opus, and in the best tradition of trying to make noise to get noticed, he sprays venom at Dr. Byrne and the Market Reform Movement - anyone that feels defrauding investors by never delivering what they paid for (naked short selling) is dubbed "The Baloney Brigade."
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By bobo on
1/20/2006 10:31 AM
Dr. Byrne discusses the ugly side of the story in very real world terms, and offers a scary glimpse of the scope of the problem using actual case studies.
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By bobo on
1/19/2006 4:47 PM
Carol is back with a tall tale of Reg SHO success that should really begin with "Once Upon A Time..." - so pull up a chair, grab a Gauloise and an apperitif, and enjoy her latest invention - she is quite a raconteur - an award winner, actually...
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By bobo on
1/19/2006 9:40 AM
This piece from one of the larger transfer agents says it all.
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By bobo on
1/17/2006 9:14 PM
Alan Newman was kind enough to send us the OSTK Freedom of Information Requests he sent to the SEC, along with their responses. Bobo has a thing or two to say about all this merriment...
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By bobo on
1/16/2006 11:05 PM
Shocking news just in: Big money buys power, votes, influence in Washington and with the press. Abramoff pleads guilty, and the poop starts hurtling towards the blur of the shimmying fan...
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By bobo on
1/12/2006 2:30 PM
Bob O'Brien seeks to make friends and influence people by dissecting Tim Mullaney's emailed questions to Overstock.com and Dr. Byrne - a truly astounding little performance by our friends in the media, who Bob is a big fan of anyway...
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By bobo on
1/10/2006 8:12 PM
High level enforcement folks are leaving the SEC faster than ever before. What's up with that?
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By bobo on
1/10/2006 7:55 PM
Bobo shares his take on the likely exit strategy for the miscreants in OSTK
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By bobo on
1/10/2006 11:42 AM
After a disastrous initial round with our blogging software, we were able to salvage this blog, although we lost over a hundred comments. Thanks for archiving it for us, Cutty.
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