Quote from marketsurfer:
Noble Prize is idiotic, but Tim is the Ralph Nader of finance-- Who else has ever stood up to the penny stock scammers and non transparency of the financial business? No one.
surf
C'mon. I would bet his monthly nut that his buy to cover transactions are filled within hours of his shorts hitting the inbox of his subscribers. If you think any altruistic tendencies are involved you're crazy. His credibility, as it were, stems from his taking the short selling route. He cannot be blamed for pumping a POS. It's fairly clever, but the motivation is to manipulate the outcome is in the same mold as the pump and dumper. It's simply the mirror-image; short it, disseminate, cover. No different that Soros going public with his silver cover and then buying it back in the aftermath.
I would bet anything that his strategy would be a net-loser if he were mot disseminating these shorts to subscribers.