- Stocks Likely Don't Need Santa to Keep Rally Going
- Ford, GM, Toyota US Sales Up, But Chrysler Falls
- Larry Kudlow's Open Letter to Tiger Woods
- AIG Slashes US Debt Under Deal With New York Fed
- Commercial Property Fears Are Overblown: Zell, LeFrak
- Trump: Time to Force Banks to Start Lending
- Seamstress Fined $5.7 Million for Insider Trading
- Super Fantasy Christmas Gifts of 2009
- Accused Ponzi Schemer Rothstein Arrested
MOST SHARED
- Commercial Property Fears Are Overblown: Zell, LeFrak
- Pending Home Sales Have Record Rise; Construction Flat
- AIG Slashes US Debt Under Deal With New York Fed
- US Manufacturing Grew Less Than Expected in November
- Somali Sea Gangs Create Pirate Stock Exchange
- Retailers 'Friend' Facebook as Marketing Budgets Shrink
- More Late on Auto Loan Payments in Third Quarter
- S&P Stocks Trading at New 52-Week Highs
Text Size 
David Einhorn, hedge fund manager of Greenlight Capital, has been making waves recently, eagerly sharing his thoughts on the financial trouble facing Lehman Brothers.
Although some critics have accused Einhorn of attempting to drive Lehman's [LEH
Loading...
()
] stock into the ground and stirring up a media buzz to promote the release of his book, others are eager to hear what he has to say.
Einhorn visited CNBC's Squawk Box to give his opinion on Lehman's future and to defend his moment in the media spotlight.
Deliberate Discrepancies?
"If the numbers are changing after (Lehman) reported them in the conference call, and they're different in the 10-Q... The conference call happened after the quarter ended. So the question really is: why did the values change, and what values changed, and what does that imply for the internal controls of the company?"
- David Einhorn, Greenlight Capital
It's Quality Information
"No one's going to listen to David Einhorn because I'm David Einhorn. People are only going to listen to me if I say something that's sensible. If I say something that they think is not sensible, they'll probably do the opposite... So I don't think anybody does anything because it's David Einhorn who's saying it. It's because of the quality of what is said."
- David Einhorn, Greenlight Capital
Media Frenzy
"I think it's good for investors to talk about stocks. I think it helps the market as a general matter... They should analyze the SEC filings. They should do their research. They should talk among themselves. I think it's fine for them to give speeches. I think it's fine to come on television... I think there's some resentment, evident in The New York Times story yesterday, that investors shouldn't talk about stocks, or they shouldn't say certain things about certain stocks."
- David Einhorn, Greenlight Capital
Print
Email
- Goldman Sachs has forbidden employees from gathering in private holiday parties of 12 or more.
- A conservative author aims to remind readers why capitalism works for the common good.
- Do you have what it takes to run your own business? Ask yourself these questions.
- Heavily armed pirates in Somalia have set up a sort of stock exhange to fund their hijackings.
- A recent issue of ESPN Magazine was one of its top sellers ever, and it only took scantily clad athletes to make it happen.
- A famed author has written all his work on an old typewriter that is now up for auction. The NYT reports.
Data is a real-time snapshot *Data is delayed at least 15 minutes