What if, for many of the promising JPMs, a consortium of heavy weights had been collectively conniving and accumulating up to 9% of a given JPM's outstanding? Let's speculate that 5 or more such investors have also shorted, naked shorted and taken up stock at bargain basement prices. Who would know? All this could be arranged through an "intermediary", probably Canadian, one of many, under the glare of transparency. When the time is ripe, they spring the trap, buying from one another selectively and take over company "X"....announcing that they are now a major shareholder of significance. Then, a certain predatory producer makes a ridiculously insulting offer and the retail shareholders and company management are, to put it so crudely, "screwed".

Please tell me I'm all wet on this one. Paranoia is hiding behind every "Bush".