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Yesterday, we took a break from our normal trawl through the filings to cozy up with the transcript from the arguments before the Supreme Court over whether the Public Company Accounting Board (PCAOB), which was created under Sarbanes-Oxley, has a right to exist. The arguments in the case, which was formally titled the Free Enterprise Fund [...]
Today is Veteran’s Day, which means that the SEC (and all federal offices) are closed, even though the markets are open. Given that Monday was a big deadline for (mostly) third quarter Qs, it gives us a chance to play catch up and check in on those companies that couldn’t make it to the church [...]
By now, you’ve probably heard or read about the massive document dump that the SEC unleashed on Friday night: 536 exhibits related to the Bernie Madoff case. Reading all of these — even figuring out which ones are worth reading — was all but impossible, even if it wasn’t earnings and 10-Q season. The New [...]
We were taken by surprise yesterday afternoon when we got a short email from the SEC that it had decided to appeal the insider trading case against billionaire investor Mark Cuban. The email was pretty concise: a short statement from SEC spokesman John Nester that said “As we alleged in our complaint, Mark Cuban violated [...]
My good friend and blogger extraordinaire Barry Ritholtz wrote such a compelling post yesterday about the SEC that I thought it was worth sharing with footnoted.org readers. Here it is in its entirety as only Barry can say it: The problems at the SEC were decades in the making. The agency is supposed to be [...]
