Financial Crime of the Century

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Illegal naked short selling

From Jim Puplava's Financial Sense News Hour

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Financial Sense Newshour of 7/12/2008.

Jim Puplava interviews Bud Burrell who calls naked short selling "The Greatest Crime in History"

http://www.financialsense.com/fsn/main.html



On July 15, 2008, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox appeared on national TV to announce his new short-selling rule which ONLY applies to large financial stocks.

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.
Bank of America Corporation
Barclays PLC
Citigroup Inc.
Credit Suisse Group
Daiwa Securities Group Inc.
Deutsche Bank Group AG
Allianz SE
Goldman, Sachs Group Inc
Royal Bank ADS
HSBC Holdings PLC ADS
J. P. Morgan Chase & Co
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
Mizuho Financial Group, Inc.
Morgan Stanley
UBS AG
Freddie Mac
Fannie Mae

The rule already exists and this, in my view is selective enforcement. What happened to equal protection under the law?

Jim Cramer said on CNBC:

"Cox declared he'll no longer allow traders to short stocks without borrowing them first, at least when it comes to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. This "naked shorting" is banned, he said. Strange that the SEC chairman doesn't know that the practice is already illegal.

The rule is that all traders shorting a stock need to first borrow it first. And it doesn't matter whether it's Fannie, Freddie, Ford or Pfizer. This rule applies to any stock out there. It's just that the SEC isn't enforcing the rule anywhere else. As a result, hedge funds are sending down the shares of any number of companies in the market.

This move just goes hand in hand with the SEC's dissolution of the uptick rule, in which a trader must wait for a stock to go up before he can sell it short. Hedge funds have been taking advantage of that as well, again hurting companies and shareholders alike."

Cramer's suggestion to the SEC: Start doing your job. Regulate the markets, for cryin' out loud. The average investor is watching his net worth evaporate because because you won't reign in these hedge funds.

July 16, 2008 Jim Cramer video on the subject.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/25704317/site/14081545/

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http://www.moneymorning.com.au/20081107 ... court.html

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December 13th, 2008 by Mark Mitchell

Bernard L. Madoff’s fraud is “stunning,” says the SEC. It is a crime of “epic proportions.” But, says the SEC, we have nothing to worry about. The SEC caught the bad guy. It “moved swiftly” to protect the integrity of the financial markets.

Nonsense.

The only thing “stunning” is that the SEC continues to condone and even fraternize with the organized mob of hedge fund miscreants who have destroyed hundreds of companies, wiped out the jobs of countless ordinary folks, and brought our financial system to the brink of ruin.

http://www.deepcapture.com/

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http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04032009/watch.html

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http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1120084432&play=1

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