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 [...]

All this attention is flattering

by Judd Bagley, principal contributor
For better or worse, I was born with an extremely well-developed sense of fairness, coupled with an even better-developed sense of obligation. Put those qualities together, and you get a person who, like me, tends to take up the fights of those being mistreated, even (or especially) when the outcome doesn’t [...]