(2006-08-29) Share Sleuth

Marc Cuban's Share Sleuth is a weird kind of Idea Futures case - he pays a Journalist (Chris Carey) to dig up overblown Publicly Held companies, then Marc shorts the stock, then they publish the "expose".

• Larry Ribstein Jun23 http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=062306A |piece

• first release Aug07 on Xethanol Co (Ethanol player)

• Mark Glaser does great job of going into detail (esp on timing of crash of the stock price) and linking to lots of other commentary.

• Stephen Bainbridge Aug25 piece on why this isn't Insider Trading.