• Patrick Byrne & Co. Up to Dirty Message Board Tricks Again

    I occasionally take a peek at stock message boards like the Investor Village Overstock.com board when I need a bit of entertainment. It’s especially interesting when the poster “Hannibal” makes statements about the financials and operations of Overstock.com and makes […]

  • Whole Foods bans executives from message boards

    From Zac Bissonnette at BloggingStocks: After Whole Foods Market (NASDAQ: WFMI) CEO John Mackey bizarre antics prompted an SEC investigation and widespread media hoopla, the company’s board of directors has decided on a new policy. Top executives and directors will […]

  • Patrick Byrne, Overstock.com CEO has surprised me

    After all the corporate crimes I’ve seen in the last 13-or-so years, it takes a lot to surprise me. Really, it does. But Patrick Byrne, the nutty CEO of Overstock.com has suprised me. Now, I’d like to think that my […]

  • The SEC cares when CEOs post on message boards using pseudonyms????

    Note to Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com: Read carefully please. Note to readers: Check out Gary Weiss’s comments on this situation. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Securities and Exchange Commission has opened an informal inquiry into the message […]