Fraud on a Crazy Market
posted by Kaimipono D. Wenger
Basic v. Levinson clearly sets out the theoretical justification for the fraud on the market theory:
The fraud on the market theory is based on the hypothesis that, in an open and developed securities market, the price of a company’s stock is determined by the available material information regarding the company and its business. . . .
Of late, it’s not so easy to tell this to my law students with a straight face. Read the rest of this post »
July 6, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Tags: financial crisis, fraud on the market, securities law
Posted in: Securities
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“A great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity”
posted by Kaimipono D. Wenger
That’s how Matt Taibbi describes Goldman Sachs in the opening paragraph of his 12-page Rolling Stone article (which, as far as I can tell, is available online only here, in moderately annoying scanned form). From there, Taibbi picks up steam. For instance, we learn that:
The bank’s unprecedented reach and power have enabled it to turn all of America into one giant pump-and-dump scam, manipulating whole economic sectors for years at a time, moving the dice game as this or that market collapses, and all the time gorging itself on the unseen costs that are breaking families everywhere — high gas prices, rising consumer credit rates, half-eaten pension funds, mass layoffs, future taxes to pay off bailouts. All that money that you’re losing, it’s going somewhere, and in both a literal and a figurative sense, Goldman Sachs is where its going.
Yikes!
Is this just another crackpot conspiracy theory? (Paging Mr. Stein, Mr. Ben Stein.) Nay — Taibbi has give us proof of Goldman’s nefari-iety. It goes more or less along these lines: 1. Goldman survived the Great Depression. 2. Goldman made some savvy bets in the past ten years. 3. Goldman pays really big bonuses. Read the rest of this post »
June 26, 2009 at 11:51 am
Tags: financial crisis, goldman sachs, market, money, securities law
Posted in: Corporate Finance, Corporate Law, Current Events, Securities, Securities Regulation
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