Cityfile reports that Jim Chanos has closed on a triplex at 3 East 75th Street (neighbors!). Chanos paid $20.365 million two months ago for the 7,800 square foot space. In the same way that rich people often have so many...

Harvey Pitt has been named deputy attorney general of Alabama where he will be investigating "short sellers and false rumors involving Colonial BancGroup, actions designed to drive down the institution's stock price." CNB apparently approached Pitt about the gig knowing...

I'm going to present this one without commentary. To parse it would be to meddle with its genius (genius that, if it's doing its job right, will haunt your dreams). I will however put a few things in bold that...

Admit it. There's some part of you that wonders whether or not Chris Cox's anti-naked shorting emergency order wasn't an attempt to prove that he and his agency were not an irrelevant or superfluous sideshow to the Ben Bernanke-Hank Paulson...

SEC Chairman Christopher Cox Cox told the Senate Banking Committee that the agency was putting in place an emergency order limiting short sales in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with a requirement that the shorted stocks be "preborrowed." It's not...