Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
A friend of mine from college has spent the last few years chasing UFOs (aka corrupt hedge funds) with Patrick Byrne (CEO of Overstock.com), and it appears they've found a few. If you're interested in real world conspiracy theories, you can read the whole story at http://www.deepcapture.com - don't start it until you have a ton of time though, it's like 80 pages printed out.
For a 45 minute presentation on naked short selling, check out http://www.businessjive.com.
Or if you just want to read about spooky stuff going on at Wikipedia, you can check out his www.antisocialmedia.net.
I wouldn't normally pay much attention to this sort of stuff, but I trust Judd a great deal and suspect they're onto some interesting things that have pretty huge implications.
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I don't begin to have time to understand what you are bringing to light here John. I'm completely confused as to how you have time to follow conspiracy theories of any kind; especially those that involve internet giant encyclopedia sites like Wikipedia. Are they the next generation of Xfiles? Maybe that's why this is interesting-you always loved that smart scary show ;)
You mean you don't think I have all kinds of time on my hands?
I've always thought (and I'm just spitballing here) that the likelihood of success of a conspiracy is inversely proportional to the size of the conspiracy...on this admittedly primitive model, vastness cuts against the likelihood of success. When you take into account the element of human nature, I think vast conspiracies, if they can even be constructed, may experience some short term success but are doomed to ultimate failure. Another thought - if the effects of a conspiracy, no matter how large, are so subtle as to escape detection and/or as to fail to materially affect important outcomes in your life, does the existence of the conspiracy matter?
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