Scout I agree, kind of like Elliott Spitzer getting busted a few months before the market meltdown. Not to say he was innocent, but the timing of exposing him was pretty good, and I'm sure he would have ravaged the financial world for what happened. You know those shorts you talk about with the airlines prior to 9/11? You ever wonder why no one has ever even suggested that the buyers/sellers are traced? How come Big Bro can get into our bank accounts but can't track the folks who frontrun major events, like 9/11 or the regular takedowns in PM's or PM stocks? I for one am beginning to think investing like a real person is becoming prehistoric. Our world has become a pathetic mockery of real markets!