Introduction 1 The King of All Media 2 Squawking 3 The Young Turks 4 10K Run 5 Bad Blood 6 Nonstop News 7 The Cult of the CEO 8 IPO Fever 9 Popping the Bubble 10 Star Wars 11 Secrets and Lies 12 Morning Mutiny 13 Raging Bull 14 Tulip Time 15 Nothing but Net 16 Crash Landing Afterword Sources Index

Introduction

At 2:15 P.M. on Friday, March 17, 2000, a little-known reporter blew a sizable hole in the stock of a high-flying, high-tech outfit called the Xybernaut Corporation.

The company, which makes miniature computers that can be worn as accessories, had been on an incredible tear, the likes of which had somehow become breathtakingly routine in the dizzying atmosphere of Wall Street. Its stock, which had been selling for $1.31 a share the previous October, had hit nearly $30 two weeks earlier — a more than twenty-fold increase for a firm with just eighty full-time employees — before settling back to $23 a share.

But the situation changed dramatically when David Evans, a reporter in the Los Angeles bureau of the Bloomberg News service, got online ... read full excerpt from The Fortune Tellers: Inside Wall Streets Game of Money Media and Manipulation ebook