Little - what is special about the timing of his SA piece? He put it on instablog yesterday, people started selling, then SA published it today. As usual, it took about a day between the request to publish it and the publication.
As to the idea that he is a paid basher, if he is, then shame on him. But there is no evidence of that. He would be required to disclose compensation for the article if he received any. Recall that IFRA disclosed that they were paid to do the research in their article on CGA.
People get emotional because he's attacking a stock, influencing the market. Interesting. Why don't people get emotional when someone does the equivalent on the other side of the trade, i.e., when someone writes a rosy, pumpy story about a stock, influencing the market? What's the difference? In those cases, the person is usually already long, yet no one seems to get angry.
I call BS.
Stepping back from my own greed-driven motives with respect to my holdings, I see nothing wrong with someone posting a critical argument based on facts provided that there is no financial exploitation of the "shock impact" that the argument will have. What is wrong with someone doing that?
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