An Open Letter to the Board of Directors

5 May 2009

From NPR and KPLU Radio:
Corporate CEOs are getting a lot of the blame for the economic meltdown. But what about the people who hire and fire them? Strategic News Service publisher Mark Anderson shares his Open Letter to the Board of Directors with KPLU’s Dave Meyer.
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Shorting the Shorts

20 November 2008

Today, Citigroup begged the U.S. government to reinstate the ban on short selling in the financial sector. CNBC ran an interview piece on shorts yesterday, with experts generally agreeing that drops of over 15-20% per day in a stock was not because of value, but could only be because of shorting.
A day earlier, a US [...]

Reason vs. “Vampire Investing”

20 September 2008

Tim Coldwell, who comments below on bank shares going up without reason, is right as usual. In fact, I think he may be the first person to have even used the word “reason” in this situation.
If there is any reasoning going on on the Street, it is a switch from a day earlier, when The Pack thought [...]