Heroic solitary security analysts, like Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham are figures of the past — vestiges of forgotten times when capital markets were much, much simpler than today. […]

The reputation of the US Securities Exchange Commission as the defender of investors’ interests was severely damaged in the Crash of 2008. First, there was the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme where the SEC completely dropped the ball. Then there was the safe harbor granted by SEC Rule 10b-18 to corporate stock manipulators in the buyback scheme […]

In the article, “Free information and the Efficient Market Hypothesis“, I give an example of how valuable free information relevant to investments is available on the Internet and how this is largely unexploited. This free “open source” information calls for open source intelligence techniques (OSINT) to be useful. See: Open Source Capital Market Intelligence. Free information […]