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Naked Shorted Stocks

this is frickin' unbelievable!
The sec bans already forbidden (but still growing!) naked shorting just for a handful of selected darling stocks. what about the others? Don't other companies have the smae right to be protected against such illegal bear attacks?
So in essence, naked shorts on Goldman Sucks are bann3ed - but naked shorts BY Goldman are not? That's really weird. Unbelievable.

Hershey's House of Pain - Cramer's Lightning Round (6/19/08)

of course cramer doesn't like acas. his hedgefund buddies (e.g. einhorn) are short the stock and will love hat jimmyboy talks it lower.
you can almost bet that a large chunks of jimbo's buy and sell recommendations are helping his friends out there either to dump or to buy on the cheap
CRAMER ADDS ZERO ALPHA TO ANYONE's PORTFOLIO WITH HIS CRAP.
But he has friends at SA, obviously - for otherwise I don't see why he is regularly featured here. It#s certainly the lowest-value section of SA.
That said, I am outta here. any more second spent on Cramer is a second wasted

American Capital Strategies Illustrates Private Equity Risks in Merisel Pull Out

i wonder how the author arrives at the conclusion that it#s a one quarter only affair. from where does he know or guess that the next quarter will be a good one again? After all, every trend starts with a first step. Given Malon's and ACAS' track recoprd and history the author#s assumptions make zero sense. ACAS has no reason to risk its hard and well-earned reputation just to get a somewhat lower price for merisel. They are precisely not like wall street and the big banks which have no issues risking dollars to make pennies.
In short, the author suggests that crooked and unfair ACAS tries to rob the 'poor' folks at Stonington. But there are quite some contradictions here. just to point out one: if the "one quarter" didn't materially impact the value of merisel - why then is the stock price dropping so hard and why then are no other buyers lining up to bid? and why should acas risk to lose the deal to someone else, if the one quarter was a meaningless episode? and why would they not try to renegotiate behind closed doors?

Evaluating a Negative View on American Capital Strategies

jLazerow: look at CALM, as a prime example how RIGHT "lunatic" Byrne is and how crooked Wallstreet, Greenberg, Cramer#s hedgefund firends and the idly watching SEC is.

With CALM, there are currently 126% of the float shorted!!

Yep, you red that right: 26% more shares are shorted than even exist and thus are available for shorting. talk about selling stuff, collecting money and never ever delivering anything.
That's called robbery, fraud and is a crime - except when it comes to the stock market and wallstreet's profits...

Evaluating a Negative View on American Capital Strategies

@J lazerow: "straight up lunatic ceo" hm? You have obviously nicely been brainwashed by kudlow, Herb Greenberg, cramer and his thestreetcom folks who utilize every opportunity to charaterize Byrne in highly inflamatory langauage, calling him "lunatic", gay, psychopath, and whatever. You see, herb Greenberg till today denies that naked short selling even exists on any significant scale - but never mind that even the sec has by now acknowledged it! So the "lunatic" Byrne obviously was right in his major arguments.
And the "investigative" Herb greenberg investigates all but the biggest financial scam and manipulation (where he is seemingly involved up to his ears).

Often, it pays to ignore what other people tell you about someone and instead read the arguments of this "someone" and examine them thoroughly on your own. And then either agree or disagree - but based on your own judgement.
It's called independent thinking. but if you prefer to dismiss the entire story based on your or other people's notion of Mr Byrne being "a lunatic" - it's your free choice, of course...

Evaluating a Negative View on American Capital Strategies

btw, ACAS has now been for 74(!) consecutive days on the SEC's RegSho-list, meaning that a huge amount of shares has been sold naked short. that means, they were sold but never delivered. Manipulative bashing on message boards is also on the rise.
It seems the sharks and unscroupoulos stock manipulators like einhorn are stepping up their efforts - and thestreetcom is lending a helping hand, as usual

Evaluating a Negative View on American Capital Strategies

thanks, great article.
it is no coincidence that this wannabe financial journalist Yulico mentioned the Einhorn short position. Einhorn is Cramer's buddy and thestreetcom is frequently assisting Cramers hedgefund buddies (Rocker, Ackman, Einhorn, Tilson...)
There is a clear pattern that has emerged over the years. few people have noticed because almost nobody really analyzed it. To cite Mark Mitchell, who has written one of the most outstanding truly journalistic and investigatiovbe articles ever published on the www: (source: www.deepcapture.com)

"It is that close associates of Herb [Greenberg] and Cramer have seized control of a vast swath of the American financial media. Indeed, if you have seen a negative story about a public company in recent years, the odds are greater than even that it was written by a friend-of-Cramer.
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Many of Cramer’s friends are former employees of TheStreet.com.... They have included the editor and top columnists for The Wall Street Journal “Money & Investing” section, top business writers for The New York Times, reporters at Fortune magazine and BusinessWeek, the editor of The New York Post business page, the editor of MSN Money, and others. Herb, a CNBC commentator and a star columnist for MarketWatch.com, was among the founding editors of TheStreet.com - “Murderers Row,” they called themselves.
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I have analyzed well over a thousand stories written by this clique of journalists. The vast majority of them were sourced from a small group of short-sellers who are also friends of Cramer. Other popular sources for this group of journalists include convicted felons, mobsters, dubious private investigators, crooked lawyers, hired stock bashers, and gun-toting goons - most of whom are tied to the Cramer constellation of short-sellers.Some of the stories written by these reporters are accurate enough. But many are not. The journalists misconstrue data with seemingly purposeful intent. They exaggerate and obfuscate. "

Hedging Your Bet With American Capital Strategies

@Carried interest: "intimate knowledge", hm?
the company is one of the financially most prudent ones, with a very low leverage and a stellar performance over more than a decade.
they are NOT laying off people left and right - they just adjust staff to the changed environment. It's called prudent management and they are not shutting down offices, but reorganizing and even opened a new one.
I am curious whether you could come up with any real facts or arguments rather than your guesses and "intimate knowledge" claims.
Until then, you sound just like another unfortunate shortie who managed to pick exactly one of the very few financial services companies out there that area strong buy - and certainly not a short.