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Dr Patrick Byrne, Overstock.com: Healthy capital market equals healthy nation

9 April 2009

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Dr Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com, explains the concept of “naked shorting”, and how he predicted as early as 3 years ago …

Dr Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com, explains the concept of “naked shorting”, and how he predicted as early as 3 years ago that the corruption of the regulator of the US capital market would lead to the systemic collapse we have now witnessed, why we need to watch the bank rescue plans and not the stimulus plans, and his next predictions for the future.

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9 April 2009.