The following is an excerpt from an article by Sam Mathid called "Party Games" posted on 24 Hr. Gold. He believes that the naked shorting ( the sheer volume of counterfeit shares) is so out of hand that many stocks will become worthless paper.

“For those who have not already lost everything, there is right now, possibly, one final chance to remove their capital from the cesspit that comprises the U.S. financial markets and exchange pseudo investments for real money… namely gold and silver. Not the paper variety of options or futures, but bullion. All paper is now suspect.

Even stock in mining companies is now suspect due to the vast amounts of naked short selling that has taken place. Many ‘owners’ of mining stock are going to find out, too late, that the statements of stock ownership in their filing cabinet are worthless. There are publicly listed companies on the major U.S. exchanges that have more stock sold than legally exists, a lot more. The situation on the minor boards is even more dire. An unknown at this time number of ‘owners’ of stock are going to find out too late that they in fact own fraudulently printed paper worth precisely zero.

Criminality in the U.S. financial markets is rampant and all pervasive. Corruption exists from the top to the bottom. A blind eye is turned by the regulators because they are afraid that to expose it now would topple the whole system. That gives an indication of how large the corruption is. It is the return of the Wild West (WW2), and at this point, the outlaws are running the show. Marshall Elliot Spitzer was the guy who rode into town on a white horse. He was almost immediately gunned down. Is there anyone else out there who will publicly challenge what is happening… preferably someone who doesn’t mind going home to his wife at the end of the day?

Naked short selling is a great example of the type of ‘mal-investment’ created by showering a financial system with cash and credit and calling it economic growth. The past has, and the future will, show a direct parallel between the size of the inflation and the size of the ensuing criminality. What has been exposed so far is just the tip of the iceberg.”