News: Bloomberg & SEC OIG

Naked Short Sales Hint Fraud in Bringing Down Lehman, By Gary Matsumoto. Bloomberg, March 19, 2009.

Practices Related to Naked Short Selling Complaints and Referrals. SEC Office of Inspector General-Office of Audits, March 18, 2009. (PDF)

Journalists & Others

Sam E. Antar

Crazy Sam Writes the Most Ironic Email in History, by Patrick Byrne. Deep Capture, July 8th, 2007.

Why Are Fortune Magazine and the New York Financial Media Suddenly Pimping Sam Antar the Crook?, by Patrick Byrne. Deep Capture, February 9th, 2008.

Roddy Boyd

Roddy Boyd Sucks It Like He’s Paying the Rent (Fortune Magazine), by Patrick Byrne. Deep Capture, October 10th, 2008.

Jim Cramer

We ♥ Jim Cramer, by Mark Mitchell. Deep Capture, July 23rd, 2008.

Jim Cramer is a Complicated Man, by Patrick Byrne. Deep Capture, March 28th, 2008.

Bethany McLean

David Einhorn, Cheryl Strauss, and the “Unavailable” Bethany McLean, by Patrick Byrne. Deep Capture, September 5th, 2008.

Bethany McLean: your benefit of the doubt is hereby revoked, by Judd Bagley. Deep Capture, December 16th, 2008.

Rocker Partners and Bethany McLean: the smarmiest guys in the room, by Judd Bagley. Deep Capture, December 21st, 2008.

Fortune Magazine Stonewalls Exposure of Bethany McLean Perfidy, by Patrick Byrne. Deep Capture, December 30th, 2008.

Joe Nocera

Crazy Sam Writes the Most Ironic Email in History, by Patrick Byrne. Deep Capture, July 8th, 2007.

New Crusade For Master Of Overstock, by Joe Nocera. The New York Times, June 10, 2006.

The SEC Declares Emergency, and Joe Nocera Yammers On, by Mark Mitchell. Deep Capture, July 15th, 2008.

Anti-Investigative Reporter Joe Nocera and The Newspaper of Non-Record (New York Times), by Patrick Byrne. Deep Capture, September 4th, 2008.

Carol Redmond

Carol Remond Tells a Joke She Doesn’t Get (DowJones),by Patrick Byrne. Deep Capture, December 15th, 2008.

Gary Weiss

The Final Word on Gary Weiss and Wikipedia, by Judd Bagley. Deep Capture, July 14th, 2008.

Gary Weiss and his Yahoo Gnomes, by Judd Bagley. Deep Capture, July 14th, 2008.

Gary Weiss doesn’t like Liz Moyer, by Judd Bagley. Deep Capture, July 14th, 2008.

Gary Weiss, Usenet Troll, by Judd Bagley. Deep Capture, July 14th, 2008.

Gary Weiss: his DTCC ties and lies, by Judd Bagley. Deep Capture, July 15th, 2008.

Emails show journalist rigged Wikipedia’s naked shorts: Overstock’s Byrne vindicated amidst economic meltdown, by Cade Metz.  The Register, October 1, 2008.

Gary Weiss, Psychopath & Scaramouch (Portfolio Magazine), by Patrick Byrne. Deep Capture, December 31st, 2008.

Bibiography

This is a bibliography that will serve to supplement issues raised in the work of Deep Capture.

Academic Articles on Naked Short Selling

Strategic Delivery Failures in U.S. Equity Markets, by Leslie Boni. June 25, 2005. (PDF)

Short Selling, Death Spiral Convertibles, and the Profitability of Stock Manipulation, by John D. Finnerty. Professor of Finance, Fordham University. March 2005. (PDF)

Academic Articles on Regulatory Capture

Regulatory Capture Revisited – Lessons from Economics of Corruption, by Frédéric Boehm. PhD Economics, Anti-Corruption Training & Consulting (ACTC), and Research Center in Political Economy (CIEP, Universidad Externado de Colombia), Working Paper, July 2007. (PDF)

“The Situation: An Introduction to the Situational Character, Critical Realism, Power Economics, and Deep Capture,”, by Jon Hanson, & David Yosifon. 152 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 129 (2003).

The Politics of Government Decision-Making: A Theory of Regulatory Capture, by Jean-Jacques Laffont and Jean Tirole.  The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 106, No. 4 (Nov., 1991), pp. 1089-1127. (PDF)

The Theory of Economic Regulation, by George J. Stigler. Bell Journal of Economics, 1971, vol. 2, issue 1, pages 3-21. (PDF)

Bear Stearns

Bringing Down Bear Stearns, By Bryan Burrough. Vanity Fair, August 2008.

Naked Short Selling

Goldman Targeted by Investor Complaints of Naked Short Selling, By Pierre Paulden and Caroline Salas. Bloomberg.net, November 17, 2008.

Naked Short Sellers Hurt Companies With Stock They Don’t Have, By Bob Dummond. Bloomberg.com, August 4, 2006.

Covering Up Naked Shorts, By Harvey Pitt. Forbes.com, July 11, 2006.

Organized Crime

Police Link Organized Crime to Stock Scam, By Tony Van Alphen & Nick Pron. The Toronto Star, February 28, 2007.

Pequot Capital Management

S.E.C. Judge Says Pequot Case Wasn’t Mishandled, By Walt Bogdanich. The New York Times, November 11, 2008.

Report Says S.E.C. Erred on Pequot, By Gretchen Morgenson and Walt Bogdanich. The New York Times, August 4, 2007.

SEC Will Be Investigated in Probe Sought by Senate’s Grassley, By Otis Bilodeau.  Bloomberg.com, October 26, 2006.

S.E.C. Inquiry on Hedge Fund Draws Scrutiny, By Walt Bogdanich and Gretchen Morgenson.  The New York Times, October 22, 2006.

S.E.C. is Reported to be Examining a Big Hedge Fund, By Walt Bogdanich and Gretchen Morgenson. The New York Times, June 23, 2006.

Sedona

Naked Justice?, By Liz Moyer. Forbes.com, August 29, 2006.
Masterminding a firm’s demise?, By Todd Mason. The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 23, 2006.