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First of all, Happy Thanksgiving y’all. Be thankful for your life, your family and, hopefully, your wallets. Hope you had a nice dinner and it prepared you for the Christmas holidays.  However, today is Black Friday and even though it should remind us on the awful things done to the slaves in the U.S. back in time, it should remind us that, except this should never happen again, we could use this date to do something good – for someone, or for us (‘cause you have to love yourself,...

Recently Overstock and its former CEO Patrick Byrne have recently made a lot of headlines. The main reason for that is that Patrick Byrne left the company with a big bang, sold all his equities and didn’t keep it a secret that he had invested in Bitcoin and gold.Now, an investor from Canada – Benjamin Ha, has filed a complaint with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleging that between May 9 and September 23, 2019, Overstock published “materially false and misleading...

Photo: OverstockOnline retail giant Overstock announced that they’re enthroning Jonathan Johnson, who was previously temporary signed, to be no its permanent CEO. Just for reminder, 10 days ago, the company’s, now ex CEO Patrick Byrne, announced that he’s dumped all of his equity holdings in the company over because, as he said, both the “deep state” and the government for his sale.In a cryptic message to “Erstwhile Teammates” on his personal website, Patrick Byrne was “explaining” the...

Patrick Byrne shared the letter on his personal website. Within the letter he reveals that he had dumped all his Overstock equity holdings over the past week and blames the deep state and the government for this action:“The riff-raff will tell you that my departure and sale were from a lack of confidence in what I left behind in Peace Coliseum: they are wrong, and I would like to tell you all the actual reasons before the yuck-yucks spin the truth.”Patrick Byrne resigned from the role of CEO...

Patrick Byrne, Overstock's former CEO, is cashing out of the company he built. | Image: AP Photo/Steve C. Wilson Ousted former CEO of Overstock, Patrick Byrne, revealed via a regulatory filing on Wednesday that he offloaded his entire holdings in the internet retailer he's been at the helm for since 1999. Byrne liquidated his entire holdings. | Source:...