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Should the SEC Deputize the Zero Hedge Blog?

By Bruce Carton

The beleaguered SEC can use all the help it can get right now, so maybe it should deputize the Zero Hedge blog? On Sept. 17, one of its contributors ("Anal_yst") wrote in a post entitled, "Unsolicited Offer to the Securities & Exchange Commission: Hire Me," that the SEC was in such dire shape that I personally just can't sit idly by and facepalm/laugh/cry anymore. I am hereby volunteering my services to help my Country and investors World-wide by going to work for the frenemy: the Securities & Exchange Commission. I'm offering to work inside the belly of the beast, to sit through hours of what are no-doubt eye-gougingly-boring staff meetings, meetings where inexperience and an incredible lack of natural curiosity are likely nourished. I promise to tell you, the SEC, when you are about to get your FAIL on, when you are failing to connect two already connected dots, to act as the voice of reason in the absence of, well, any. There was no indication that the SEC picked up on Anal_yst's offer, but just a few days later, on Sept. 21, ZH's lead contributor ("Tyler Durden") took matters into his own hands. In a post entitled, "Dear SEC:...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on September 28, 2009 (boomark / email).