Corporate Accountability Reporting and Roddy Boyd’s Hobby

I got a little chuckle this week when Roddy Boyd and his paid hobby, Southern Investigative Reporting Foundation, put out a plea for donations and referred to their “work” as corporate accountability reporting. You see, a couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Roddy Boyd’s lack of ethics as it …

Short Seller Marc Cohodes About Face on Overstock

Former hedge fund manager Marc Cohodes has been a long-time critic of Overstock.com and its wacky CEO, Patrick Byrne. The criticism dates back to the days when Cohodes was at Rocker Partners, a company that was sued by Overstock along with research firm Gradient Analytics. In 2005, Cohodes was fingered …

Overstock.com Report on TheStreetSweeper

TheStreetSweeper, a site investigates and reports on public companies, released a report last week on Overstock.com. The article, called “Under Surveillance,” said that the company’s stock is massively overvalued. The stock price shot up when Overstock jumped on the cryptocurrency bandwagon: Overstock’s crypto-fueled stock surge began in August, after the …

Herbalife $HLF Doesn’t Want You to See This Video

Herbalife (HLF) does not want you to see or hear the evidence that the company is nothing more than a recruiting scheme. Audio and video footage was obtained of CEO Michael Johnson talking about how Herbalife is a recruiting company: It’s the recruiting, meaning bringing new distributors into our company, …