{"id":4138,"date":"2007-07-25T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kir.com\/?p=4138"},"modified":"2007-07-25T00:00:25","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T05:00:25","slug":"pulling_a_macke_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kir.com\/?p=4138","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Pulling a Mackey&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/garyweiss.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/patrick-byrne-admits-he-posted-under.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Overstockcom.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kir.com\/archives\/images\/Overstockcom.gif\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\"  border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left\" hspace=\"5\"  vspace=\"2\" \/><\/a>Overstock.com&#8217;s CEO Patrick Byrne is already a controversial character in business circles over his dubious demonization of shorting (earlier posts <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kir.com\/archives\/2006\/03\/criminalizing_t.asp\">here<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kir.com\/archives\/2006\/03\/more_on_crimina_2.asp\">here<\/a><\/strong>) and his <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jeffmatthewsisnotmakingthisup.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/patrick-awards-part-1.html\">rather bizarre handling<\/a><\/strong> of Wall Street conference calls. But as <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/garyweiss.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/patrick-byrne-admits-he-posted-under.html\">this Gary Weiss post<\/a><\/strong> explains, Bryne has now outdone himself &#8212; he&#8217;s &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/garyweiss.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/patrick-byrne-admits-he-posted-under.html\">pulled a Mackey<\/a><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overstock.com&#8217;s CEO Patrick Byrne is already a controversial character in business circles over his dubious demonization of shorting (earlier posts here and here) and his rather bizarre handling of Wall Street conference calls. But as this Gary Weiss post explains, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kir.com\/?p=4138\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-criminalizing-business","category-legal-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2QmKc-14K","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kir.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kir.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kir.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kir.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}