Media: Bob O’Brien

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Bob O’Brien is a senior writer at The Deal, covering private equity. He writes both breaking news stories and feature articles for the website.

Previously, O’Brien spent 18 years at The Wall Street Journal, including covering the daily performance in the equities market. He was featured as an on-air reporter on CNBC television, as part of the WSJ’s licensing agreement with NBC Universal. He wrote feature stories for Barron’s magazine as well as an investment blog for Barron’s online.

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Official: Bill Clinton

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William Jefferson Clinton ( Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Prior to his presidency, he served as governor of Arkansas (1979–1981 and 1983–1992) and as attorney general of Arkansas (1977–1979). A member of the Democratic Party, Clinton was known as a New Democrat, and many of his policies reflected a centrist “Third Way” political philosophy. He is the husband of former secretary of state, former U.S. senator, and two-time candidate for president Hillary Clinton.

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Official: Christopher Cox

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Christopher Cox was the 28th Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He was appointed by President Bush on June 2, 2005, and unanimously confirmed by the Senate on July 29, 2005. He was sworn in on August 3, 2005.

During his tenure at the SEC, Chairman Cox made vigorous enforcement of the securities laws the agency’s top priority, bringing ground breaking cases against a variety of market abuses including hedge fund insider trading, stock options backdating, fraud aimed at senior citizens, municipal securities fraud, and securities scams on the Internet. He assumed leadership of the international effort to more closely integrate U.S. and overseas regulation in an era of global capital markets and international securities exchanges. He also championed transforming the SEC’s system of mandated disclosure from a static, form-based approach to one that taps the power of interactive data to give investors qualitatively better information about companies, mutual funds, and investments of all kinds. In addition, as part of an overall focus on the needs of individual investors, Chairman Cox reinvigorated the agency’s initiative to provide important investor information in plain English.

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Investor: Jim Chanos

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James S. Chanos (born December 24, 1957) is an American investment manager. He is president and founder of Kynikos Associates, a New York City registered investment advisor focused on short selling. A noted art collector, he appeared on the BBC Four documentary The Banker’s Guide to Art.

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Article: Save The Billionaire Short-Sellers!

Article: House Hearing On Gamestop Fiasco Will Focus On “Short Selling And Stock Manipulation”

Remember How Naked Short Selling Wasn’t a Big Deal?

Tweet: Marc Cohodes Weaves His Web — NewsFlash — We Have It All, Marc!

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Comment: Mr. Cohodes, who is very much present in the tag cloud, seems to think that we have all forgotten his years of engagement in the ecology of naked short selling. His offering to brief Congress, which G. Robert Blakey considers a RICO organization enabling naked short selling, is laughable. We have it all, Mr. Cohodes.  There is no place to run. Can you spell “discovery?”

Subject: Baiju Prafulkumar Bhatt

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Baiju Bhatt is the co-founder of Robinhood, the fastest-growing brokerage in the world. In 2013, Bhatt co-founded Robinhood with Vlad Tenev, aiming to democratize the financial system. The company has millions of users across the country and is currently valued at $8.6 billion. Bhatt earned his B.S. in Physics and M.S. in Mathematics at Stanford University.

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Subject: Vlad Tenev

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Vlad Tenev is the co-founder and CEO of Robinhood. A first-generation immigrant from Bulgaria, Tenev earned his B.S. in Mathematics at Stanford University before starting two finance companies in New York City, selling trading software to hedge funds. In 2013, Tenev and longtime friend Baiju Bhatt co-founded Robinhood, a zero-commission brokerage dedicated to democratizing the finance system. The company has millions of users across the country and is currently valued at $8.6 billion.

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Another Thought on Silver by Jim Willie

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Jim Willie | 21.02.01
Silver is up almost $3 from Singapore and soon Tokyo. I regard this entire Reddit Robin Hood movement as the Attack by the Lilliputians. Time to stampede over the JPMorgue zombies and take silver to $35/oz. Watch mining stocks to confirm the move of course, the Boyz can put it down with a paper barrage, but the Lilliputians might be in the tens of thousands and they smell blood. The GameStop was a trial run. 

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Subject: Fahmi Quadir

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Founder & Chief Investment Officer at Safkhet Capital

Born in the USA to Bangladeshi parents. Left PhD track to do research at Deallus Consulting.  Recruited by Michael Krensavage to be a short seller.

Central to the short selling of both Valeant and Wirecard. Has enjoyed a massive media elevation with no inquries into her connections to naked short sellers who destroyed both Valeant and Wirecard.

Website: https://safkhetcapital.com/

Comment: There is a new layer of naked short sellers and bashers on Wall Street that is connected to India, Pakistan, and Bangldesh. They are the new gang in town.

Subject: Andrew Left

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Andrew Edward Left is an activist short seller, author and editor of the online investment newsletter Citron Research, formerly StockLemon.com. Left is known for advising investors on short selling and has often appeared on various media outlets such as CNBC and Bloomberg to talk about his opinions on stocks. In 2016, Left was banned for five years by the Hong Kong Market Misconduct Tribunal for disclosing false or misleading information, and so inducing transactions under the Securities and Futures Ordinance.

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Official: Robert S. Khuzami

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Robert S. Khuzami was the Deputy U.S. Attorney for the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York until March 22, 2019. He previously was a United States federal prosecutor and Assistant United States Attorney for the office, and a former director of the Division of Enforcement of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He was previously a partner at law firm Kirkland & Ellis. and general counsel of Deutsche Bank AG.  Khuzami  graduated from the University of Rochester (BA), and Boston University (JD).

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Media: Wayne Jett

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Wayne Jett is managing principal and chief economist of Classical Capital LLC, a Pasadena CA registered investment advisor engaged in economic analysis and asset management services. He is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of Los Angeles, and speaks to CFA chapters nationally on the subject of monetary policy reform.  In private law practice 1970-1999, he argued cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, the U. S. Court of Appeals, and the federal and state trial and appellate courts. He has led seminars in supply-side economics for CFALA and for Security Analysts of San Francisco, and speaks and writes on constitutional and economic topics. He is also the author of The Fruits of Graft: Great Depressions Then and Now.  In 2006, Jett was one of the organizers of the Naked Short, and Greedy event for CFA-LA. 

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Book: Naked Short, and Greedy – Wall Street’s Failure to Deliver by Susanne Trimbath

THE DOLLAR HAS NO INTRINSIC VALUE : DO YOUR ASSETS?