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Author: bobo Created: 1/10/2006 10:09 AM
This blog is dedicated to Bob O'Brien's Sanity Check editorials, and discussions about the Market Reform Movement, the SEC, failing to deliver/naked shorting, etc. It was created so that his many detractors and fans can tell him that he is full of it, correct his mistakes, rant and rave, kowtow, preen, or whatever seems appropriate. The only sins are being boring, or inarticulate, or dim. Humorous pieces can be found in the new Funny Bunny Blog area above, for a lighter-hearted take on being a bunny. Older Bobo blogs can be viewed by selecting a month under the calendar to your right.

DTCC: " A Little Rape is No Big Deal - Why Is Everyone Bent Out of Shape?"
By bobo on 8/31/2006 7:18 AM
I couldn't have asked for a better example of what is wrong with the DTCC...
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Reporters and CFAs Submit Amicus Briefs in Support Of Gradient Free Speech
By bobo on 8/29/2006 5:41 PM
Two separate groups submitted Amicus briefs recently in the OSTK vs. Rocker/Gradient suit. So did the California AG. The CFAs and "Reporter Committee For Free Speech" supports Gradient, the top California lawman supports OSTK.
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Dr. Susanne Trimbath Comment Letter To SEC on Reg SHO
By bobo on 8/29/2006 5:50 AM
I rarely use the word brilliant. Far less than I wish I could, and the only reason I get to use it at all these days is because I'm fortunate enough to have brilliant contributors to this site. This letter to the SEC is brilliant, and a must read and distribute. UPDATE: STATE OF LA SERVED UBSS WITH DEMAND FOR DISCOVERY IN SEDONA
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Continuous Net Settlement (CNS) and Illusory FTD Reporting
By bobo on 8/28/2006 3:23 AM
Nobody can seem to agree just how large the delivery failure problem really is. To complicate matters further, the CNS system artificially reduces the number of FTDs reported by the DTCC - in other words, the problem is likely much, much worse than the numbers from the DTCC admit...
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Forbes Again Breaks Story on SEC Cover-Up and NSS Fraud
By bobo on 8/25/2006 1:11 PM
I take back everything I ever said about co-opted NY suck-ups in the media. At least, I take it back about Forbes...
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New article from California nails SEC role in fraud cover-up
By bobo on 8/25/2006 5:49 AM
Here is a great, comprehensive article on the recent cover-up of fraud by the SEC. From the WSJ? NY Times? Barron's? Nope. From a small paper in the San Fernando Valley.
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SEC Mendacity and Cover-Up: It Just Got Worse
By bobo on 8/24/2006 1:39 PM
Remember when we got the Global Links data, and I asked, "How much worse does this have to get before a special prosecutor is named?"
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Senator Grassley Letter To Cox Worth The Read
By bobo on 8/24/2006 10:03 AM
The media gave us a little flavah of the letter, but the actual document is far more stern in tone than anything reported, and far more detailed...
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Lies, Damned Lies, and the SEC Caught Red-Handed AGAIN!!!
By bobo on 8/23/2006 3:26 PM
In the spirit of helpfulness that bobo is known for, he helps jog the SEC's memory on their latest "misstatement"...
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NCANS Comment Letter On Reg SHO In Final Revision; SEC Lies Again? Senator Fumes...
By bobo on 8/23/2006 4:49 AM
NCANS has been working on a comment letter for the SEC's Reg SHO RFC. And a Senator hints at obstruction and cover-up from....THE SEC!!!! Oh, and they have been caught in yet ANOTHER lie...
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Lies, Invention, Journalists, and the SEC
By bobo on 8/21/2006 1:22 PM
This blog's subject matter is actually too bizarre for description. Suffice it to say that it's a little weird when you have pundits on Yahoo making stuff up in order to mount ad hominem attacks, and the SEC provably misstating the data in ways that would make the most larcenous mob accountant proud...UPDATE: DAVE PATCH DEBUNKING NOW LIVE AND LINKED
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NY Press Dead Silent on SEC Cover-Up, Except For Forbes' Liz Moyer
By bobo on 8/21/2006 10:34 AM
It's really wild. I mean, the SEC is caught red handed in a cover-up, of the extent of the naked short selling crisis as well as its impact on investors and targeted companies, and hard data is finally available to prove the duplicity and collusion, and the NY Press is silent. Not even Gasparino comments. Amazing. Or rather, completely expected.
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Forbes Scoops NY Financial Press Corps On SEC Cover-Up Story
By bobo on 8/18/2006 3:18 PM
Forbes beat everyone to the punch in covering the breaking SEC cover-up story involving the massive naked short selling of Global Links...
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Dave Patch Exposes SEC Colluding With Wall Street To Defraud Investors
By bobo on 8/17/2006 9:45 PM
Truth is stranger than fiction. Folks, Specter needs to get a special prosecutor on the SEC's case now. Enough is enough. UPDATE: Hard Copy FOIA Data Now Up
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Draft of Comment Letter For SEC Reg SHO Request For Comments
By bobo on 8/16/2006 4:37 PM
Bobo has uploaded a template of a generic comment letter that can be used and modified to comment on the proposed amendments to Reg SHO
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California AG Files Amicus Brief Supporting OSTK Position Against Rocker/Gradient; SIA Just Wants To Get Along...
By bobo on 8/16/2006 8:59 AM
The Attorney General for the State of California filed an Amicus Brief in the matter involving Gradient/Rocker vs. OSTK, and it basically takes Gradient/Rocker's legal team out to the woodshed....
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SEC Cover-up In Aguirre Case Hits NY Times - Senators Not Buying Whitewash
By bobo on 8/15/2006 4:50 AM
The NY Times seems to have woken up to the reality of a regulator who allegedly engaged in a cover-up, and is compounding that indiscretion by fumbling through damage control measures...
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An Automated Primer For First Time Investors
By bobo on 8/14/2006 1:11 PM
A new automated primer for investors is now live, and teaches one everything one needs to know about the market...
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Gayle Essary, CEO of Financialwire/InvesTrend Passes Away at 66
By bobo on 8/14/2006 12:26 PM
Gayle was a contributor to this site, and one of the first to sound the alarm about the NSS crisis. He will be missed.
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Another Company Looks At Abandoning US Market System
By bobo on 8/14/2006 6:51 AM
Private Media Group announced their intention to explore listing abroad, as a direct consequence of naked short selling in the US markets, and costly SO compliance.
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Utah's New Slogan: Turn That Frown Upside Down, Mr. Market...
By bobo on 8/12/2006 12:11 PM
Bobo, in keeping with his serious appreciation of the weighty events at hand, has devoted literally tens of minutes of his valuable time to working in Paint, to share his thoughts and dreams...
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Wall Street Spanks Utah Governor, Regulator and Citizenry, Spares No Expense To Buy Time
By bobo on 8/11/2006 5:52 PM
Wall Street's lobbying organization, the Securities Industry Association, reportedly has been lobbying 24/7 to block or stall the implementation of Utah's new anti-NSS law. Apparently you can throw money at some problems...
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What A Tangled Web Redux
By bobo on 8/11/2006 7:50 AM
The Motley Fool ran an article on NFI, with a mention of OSTK and other heavily NSS companies, and I was struck by what was said, and what wasn't...
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The New, New Thing - A Return To The "Good Old Days..."
By bobo on 8/10/2006 5:21 AM
Massive insider trading? That's so...er...Eighties...
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Hedge Fund Systemic Risk Never More Obvious Than Now
By bobo on 8/9/2006 6:59 AM
Apparently, an offshore bank was lending a lot of money to a hedge fund that just blew up...
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TASR FOIA Data Now Available - And The Picture Ain't Pretty. And Congress Passes Wild 401K "Reform"...
By bobo on 8/7/2006 5:13 AM
Dave Patch once again secured FOIA data from the SEC on FTDs, this time for TASR.
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Bloomberg Article a Brilliant Expose and Discussion Of NSS Impact On Companies, Market, Investors
By bobo on 8/4/2006 4:54 AM
A mainstream market info source just released a comprehensive article on NSS. It is required reading, and should be widely distributed.
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SEC Leaking Info In Investigation; Post Has Mysterious Omission of FFH Articles
By bobo on 8/3/2006 8:45 AM
Why, after doing everything it could to keep Gary Aguirre from leaking the evidence in the Mack incident, is the SEC now leaking information about an investigation?
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There are no new ideas
By bobo on 7/31/2006 8:40 AM
A telling excerpt from an account of our founding fathers...
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Lighter Side Break. New Vid From Columbia Business School A Howl
By bobo on 7/31/2006 8:06 AM
Sting is likely shaking his head in disbelief over this extraordinarily well done and funny video parody...
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SIA Sues Utah Over Anti-NSS Law
By bobo on 7/29/2006 5:59 AM
We've just moved from farce to slapstick... NEW - UPDATE: VIDEO OF NEWS COVERAGE INCLUDING INTERVIEW WITH PATRICK BYRNE
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Liz Moyer Writes Balanced Forbes Article on NSS and Lawsuits
By bobo on 7/28/2006 6:39 AM
Forbes has been issuing fair, balanced articles on NSS of late. Somebody better go have a word with them and tell them to get with the program...
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NY Sun Editorial on Hedge Fund Regulation Nicely Sums Up What's Wrong With The NY Press
By bobo on 7/27/2006 6:13 AM
The NY Sun had an editorial today that trotted out every creaky misstatement ever contrived about hedge funds...UPDATE: MUST READ ARTICLE FROM BRITISH PRESS ON HEDGE FUNDS - POLAR OPPOSITE OF NY DROSS...
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SAC, Rocker, Other Hedge Funds Sued by Fairfax Financial
By bobo on 7/26/2006 11:28 AM
Those innocent hedge funds are again being besmirched by the evil corporations, who in their corporately conspiring corporate way, seek to harm these brave freedom fighters.
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New Alan Newman Crosscurrents; OTCBB Short List a Farce; SEC/SBC Meeting Everything Bobo Expected...
By bobo on 7/26/2006 3:01 AM
A great article, lies, damn lies, and statistics, and rich white men in suits making sounds like adults in the Peanuts cartoons...UPDATE: OSTK TENDER OFFER LEGIT, OR A HOAX?
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Brokers pay beer money in Reg SHO violation case - annoyed because NYSE won't accept coins...
By bobo on 7/24/2006 4:27 AM
Apparently, the NYSE demands that fined firms involved in naked short selling have to have correct change - no vouchers or coins will be accepted. And folks accuse the SROs of lacking teeth...?
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Tuesday's Senate Banking Hearing Likely To Be A Yawn or a Whitewash
By bobo on 7/23/2006 10:36 AM
Is it the court of final appeals for the SEC, or the gang that couldn't shoot straight? Given their record of oversight, the latter....
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Another Great Article On NSS - From The Farthest Point Possible From NY....
By bobo on 7/19/2006 2:48 AM
Funny how the closer you get to Wall Street, the less balanced the coverage of this topic is...
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Wall Street Discovers That There IS Naked Short Selling Going On!!!
By bobo on 7/18/2006 6:24 AM
The WSJ always seems to be the last to know, when it comes to Wall Street practices that cost investors fortunes and benefit the participants. So surprise, surprise, we start to see coverage now...what can it mean?
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SEC Proposed Rule Changes To Reg SHO Now Up
By bobo on 7/17/2006 5:18 PM
Tommytoyz, the gentleman who was responsible for getting the FOIA data on NFI, and who was invaluable in driving the NCANS Amicus brief, has written an eloquent summary that requires no supplementation from the Bunny...
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Vote Is Unanimous! Yahoo Sucks, But New Board Picks Up Slack
By bobo on 7/17/2006 9:40 AM
Yahoo has effectively reduced its traffic on its enormously popular message boards, eliminating the need for any hardware upgrades for the next 20 years, as nobody is using them anymore...
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Yahoo Boards Officially Suck; NCANS Amicus Brief Accepted by NV Court
By bobo on 7/15/2006 12:02 PM
If you haven't been on the new Yahoo message boards, you are in for a huge and unpleasant surprise.
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Guest Blog By Craig Cunningham - On Beating Wall Street At The Stock Lending Game
By bobo on 7/13/2006 8:17 AM
Craig, whose work has graced the virtual pages of The Motley Fool (we won't hold that against him) offers some practical advice on how he has defeated the brokers in their game of lending out your shares, and making money from your asset. It isn't for everyone, but it does seem to have merit...
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Bobo's Simplified Translation of the SEC Hearing on Reg SHO - With Cartoons!!!
By bobo on 7/12/2006 1:31 PM
In his ever-helpful quest to assist the reading comprehension impaired to understand complex issues, Bobo whips out MS Paint and proves that a picture is indeed worth a thousand words...
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A Window Into The Soul Of The SEC - The Reg SHO Amendment Hearing
By bobo on 7/12/2006 4:17 AM
If you weren't worried before listening to this, you should be now...
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Dave Patch Gets FOIA Data for NFLX, Global Crossing; Harvey Pitt and Judith Burns Tell The Story Straight
By bobo on 7/11/2006 1:52 AM
Dave has gotten the 2005 FTD info on both companies, and they show a similar pattern...And Harvey Pitt, and Judith Burns, both have must-read articles out.
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Specialists' Q1 Profits Go Ballistic
By bobo on 7/10/2006 4:35 PM
Being a Specialist firm on the NYSE has NEVER been better. Of course, only on Wall Street can costs remain the same, volume increase only moderately, and yet profits go ballistic. I'm quite sure all that cash is being created legitimately....
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Dr. Trimbath Delivers The Third And Final Installment for the "Experts Speak Out" Section of the Site.
By bobo on 7/9/2006 1:23 PM
Dr. Susanne Trimbath, formerly with the DTC, and an acknowledged expert on the markets and the clearing and settlement system, answers the final round of questions directed to her by this site, and by you, our readers. UPDATE: NEW ALAN NEWMAN'S CROSSCURRENTS ARTICLE
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The SEC is Meeting To Consider Changes To Reg SHO. Bobo Has 5 Improvements That Will Likely Go Ignored
By bobo on 7/8/2006 7:06 AM
Fixing Reg SHo isn't hard. The likelihood that the SEC will actually do so is remote, though, in Bobo's opinion. Still, he lists the 5 necessary steps for making SHO do what it purports to attempt.
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Roundup From a Holiday Week
By bobo on 7/7/2006 7:36 AM
So much going on, so few words with which to express my cynicism...
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