Month August 2009

Goldman gives preferred clients early tips

WSJ: Goldman Sachs gives preferred clients early tips, letting them buy early, then later tells everyone else, which allows those clients to sell at a profit. Not only that, at first they tell the retail clients something totally different from…

Zero Hedge. A blog that is making a difference

In just 10 months, Zero Hedge, a pseudonymously-written blog by financial insiders, has played a major role in forcing issues like Goldman Sachs’ machinations and the inherent unfairness of High Frequency Trading into the mainstream press and the Halls of…

The increasing irrelevance of the left

There are now multiple, reliable reports of the government of Iran using rape, multiple times, as a deliberate way to emotionally and psychologically destroy jailed protesters. Bizarrely, the hard left is still having a argument as to whether the government…