Dan Loeb is Mr. Pink and more

The Silicon Investor stock message boards have Mr. Pink. The Yahoo Finance stock message boards have Mr_Pink_esq. In this legal filing, hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb admits that he is the Mr. Pink of Silicon Investor. According to this Wall Street Journal story, Loeb insists that he is not Mr_Pink_esq of Yahoo Finance. Loeb, as it turns out, is not telling the truth, and here’s how I know it.

Gary Weiss knows what Joe Knows

How did Gary Weiss come to know the substance, sentiment and timing of one of New York Times business columnist Joe Nocera’s most vicious attacks against opponents of illegal naked short selling, long before it was published?
We asked Joe.
Joe doesn’t know.
It all started on January 10, 2006, when Business Week writer Tim Mullaney clumsily fell [...]