In the mood for a good conspiracy? How about the story of a CEO who tried to warn Wall Street years ago about the terrible risks of naked short-selling (basically the behavior that caused the current fubar), and was rewarded with a slew of falsified Wikipedia entries and other fabricated news-reports that he was off his rocker, all of which can be definitively linked to the Wall Street Journal and other industry players?
I know it totally puts the surreality syrup on my Monday. Especially since I remember reading some of the articles about how batshit this guy was; in fact, the ruse worked so well on me that when I saw his name on this article, my first response was, "Oh yeah, that crazy guy that nobody should listen to." Yeah….whups.
(via /., because I like /.)
(Also, neat quote from the forums there: "Stay tuned - the music has stopped on Wall Street and everyone is looking for chairs.")
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