Press

Research Profile​

• ​This Texas Finance Professor Sifts Data for Signs of Rigged Markets (October 2018, Bloomberg)

Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS)

• Commercial Properties’ Ability to Repay Mortgages Was Overstated, Study Finds (August 2020, Wall Street Journal)

• The Kushners’ Freddie Mac Loan Wasn’t Just Massive. It Came With Unusually Good Terms, Too. (October 2020, ProPublica)

Credit Ratings and Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs)

• CLOs May Be Riskier Than What Ratings Suggest, New Study Finds (October 2020, Bloomberg)

• The Looming Bank Collapse (June 2020, The Atlantic)

• Financial Engineering Made Risky Loans Seem Safe. Now They Face a Huge Test. (March 2020, Wall Street Journal)

Cryptocurrencies and Digital Assets

• Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated, Fueling Skyrocketing Value, Researchers Say (June 2018, New York Times)

• Large Bitcoin Player Manipulated Price Sharply Higher, Study Says (November 2019, Wall Street Journal)

• Podcast – Bitcoin Comes Untethered (November 2019, Wall Street Journal)

• Bitcoin’s astronomical rise last year was buoyed by market manipulation, researchers say (June 2018, Washington Post)

• Has bitcoin come to the end of its Tether? (June 2018, Financial Times)

• A Lone Bitcoin Whale Likely Fueled 2017 Surge, Study Finds (November 2019, Bloomberg)

• The World’s Most-Used Cryptocurrency Isn’t Bitcoin (September 2019, Bloomberg)

• On Crypto Exchanges, the Trades Don’t Always Add Up (July 2019, Bloomberg)

• Tether Used to Manipulate Price of Bitcoin During 2017 Peak: New Study (June 2018, Bloomberg)

• Cryptocurrency tether used to boost bitcoin prices, study finds (June 2018, Reuters)

• A single anonymous market manipulator caused bitcoin to top $20,000 two years ago, study shows (November 2019, CNBC)

Market Manipulation

• Regulator Looks Into Alleged Manipulation of VIX, Wall Street’s ‘Fear Index’ (February 2018, Wall Street Journal)

• Does the VIX Need Fixing? Sure Looks That Way (May 2018, Bloomberg)

• VIX Trading, Hoaxes and Blockchain (May 2018, Bloomberg Opinion)

• VIX Misbehavior Leads Exchange to Fine Trader $1.28 Million (February 2018, Wall Street Journal)

• VIX: Wall Street ‘fear gauge’ – manipulated or maligned? (September 2018, Reuters)

• Is the VIX Being Gamed? A Sudden Swoon Has Traders Talking Again (January 2018, Bloomberg)

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Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS)

• Fraud Revealed as Key to Financial Crash (December 2020, McCombs School of Business)

• Loose Credit Led to Housing Price Bust (July 2020, McCombs School of Business)

• Mortgage Bankers and Hedge-Fund Revivals (May 2017, Bloomberg)

• The Bankers Behind the Financial Crisis Actually Got Promoted (June 2017, Vice)

Op-Ed

• Coronavirus bailout for airlines and cruise lines is socialism for the undeserving rich (March 2020, USA Today)

Other Media Mentions​

• How a Japanese Rice Farmer Got Tangled Up in the Hertz Bankruptcy (November 2020, Wall Street Journal)

• Bitcoin Gains Ground on Gold, Bolsters Claim as the Asset of Tomorrow (May 2020, Cointelegraph)

• Controversial Crypto Coin Tether Gains Popularity at Gambling Sites, Pot Shops (October 2019, Bloomberg)

• Bitcoin prices have been manipulated, study says (June 2018, CNN)

• What If Bitcoin, Crypto Prices Are Being Manipulated? (June 2018, Forbes)

• Bitcoin whales get bigger, threatening price swings (December 2019, Los Angeles Times)

• The Real Reason Behind Bitcoin’s Epic Rally Revealed? (November 2019, Forbes)

• Who are the bamboozlers manipulating the cost of bitcoin now? (November 2019, New York Post)

• Bitcoin’s Record Price Surge of 2017 Caused by a Single Person, Study Claims (November 2019, The Independent)

• Mysterious Bitcoin Player Manipulated Cryptocurrency to Historic $326 Billion Market Value, Study Claims (November 2019, Newsweek)

• Bitcoin’s bubble was the result of one big player: Study (November 2019, Fox Business)

• Crypto Coin With $21 Billion in Daily Volume Sparks Regulator Concerns (October 2019, Investopedia)

• CryptoKitties Ran Wild on Ethereum First. Now Tether Is Clogging the Digital Ledger (October 2019, Fortune)

• Cheating in Marriage May Mean Cheating at Work (October 2019, Psych Central)

• Tether, not Libra, may be the cryptocurrency behind bitcoin’s surge (June 2019, Quartz)

• Crypto Exchanges Suffering Major Outflows Even As Bitcoin Soars (June 2019, Investopedia)

• As bitcoin nosedives, regulators said to be investigating whether it was propped up illegally (November 2018, CNBC)

• Crypto Coin Tether Defies Logic on Kraken’s Market, Raising Red Flags (June 2018, Bloomberg)

• CEOs Who Cheat in Bedroom Will Cheat in Boardroom, Study Shows (October 2018, Bloomberg)

• Much of bitcoin’s 2017 boom was market manipulation, research says (June 2018, CNBC)

• Whistleblower alleges manipulation of Cboe volatility index (February 2018, Reuters)

• Bitcoin prices have been manipulated, study says (June 2018, CNN)

• What If Bitcoin, Crypto Prices Are Being Manipulated? (June 2018, Forbes)

• Bitcoin’s price has been manipulated with another cryptocurrency: tether, professor says (June 2018, Los Angeles Times)

• Bitcoin prices were manipulated: study (June 2018, The Hill)

• CRYPTO: From VIX to bitcoin—a story of market manipulation (June 2018, Yahoo Finance)

• Tether Manipulation Pushed Up Bitcoin’s Price, Researchers Find (June 2018, CoinDesk)

• Bitcoin Frauds Keep Growing (June 2018, Naked Capitalism)

• Bitcoin Price Manipulation Fueled Top Cryptocurrency’s 2017 Rally: Report (June 2018, The Inquisitr)

• Is Bitcoin Going to Zero? (June 2018, Yahoo Finance)

• ‘The mother of all crypto scams’: Bitcoin’s price manipulated during ‘meteoric rise’, researchers find (June 2018, News.com AU)

• Bitcoin’s astronomical rise last year could be buoyed by market manipulation, researchers say (June 2018, Spokesman Review)

• The hunt for bitcoin market manipulation is gaining momentum (June 2018, Quartz)

• Crypto Extend Losses Amid Reports That Bitcoin Prices Was Manipulated During 2017 (June 2018, Investing.com)

• Research Says Bitcoin’s Rise Caused By Market Manipulation (June 2018, BroBible)

• Bitcoin’s record-high 2017 price was result of market manipulation, claims study (June 2018, TechSpot)

• Bitcoin price analysis: BTC/USD recovers from Wednesday’s lows; the crypto bubble might have been engineered, research shows (June 2018, FX Street)

• New Research Shows Bitcoin’s Meteoric Rise Was a Scam (June 2018, San Antonio Express)

• Bitcoin Today: Prices Attempt to Rally Following Early Weakness (June 2018, The Street)

• Was bitcoin’s rise built on a lie? (June 2018, PitchBook)

• Bitcoin is slipping after a study found signs its 2017 bull run was driven by market manipulation (June 2018, Markets Insider)

• Bitcoin’s Atmospheric Rise Might Have Been Tied To Tether (June 2018, PYMENTS)

• Bitcoin is slipping after study claims its 2017 bull run was driven by market manipulation (June 2018, Business Insider)

• Report: The bitcoin boom may have been caused by price manipulation (June 2018, Fast Company)

• Bitcoin Prices Are Falling Again. Here’s What’s Behind the Latest Plunge (June 2018, Money)

• Bitcoin prices manipulated, says study (June 2018, Whistleblower Online)

• Is Bitcoin a SCAM? Cryptocurrency’s huge price spike last year was caused by massive ‘market manipulation’, claims study (June 2018, Daily Mail UK)

• Bitcoin’s 2017 Surge Was the Result of Manipulation, Experts Say (June 2018, Futurism)

• Bitcoin’s record price was artificially manipulated, research claims (June 2018, New York Post)

• Bitcoin’s price was artificially inflated last year, researchers say (June 2018, Toronto Star)

• Remember how Bitcoin’s value soared in 2017? Most of it was market manipulation: study (June 2018, Global News)

• New Research Shows Bitcoin’s Meteoric Rise Was a Scam (June 2018, The Entrepreneur) 

• Bitcoin’s price was artificially inflated last year, researchers say (June 2018, Boston Globe)

• Bitcoin’s rise might be linked to price manipulation, study indicates (June 2018, The Verge)

• Market manipulation was key factor in Bitcoin’s bull run, researchers say (June 2018, The Next Web)

• Academics Claim Tether Used to Pump the Price of Bitcoin on the Bitfinex Exchange (June 2018, Crowdfund Insider)

• US researchers claim bitcoin’s price was manipulated during 2017 spike (June 2018, Silicon Republic)

• New Research Claims Bitcoin Price was Manipulated using Tether (June 2018, News BTC)

• Crypto Collapse Accelerates As Bitcoin Miners Turn Cashflow Negative (June 2018, Zero Hedge)

• Bitcoin’s price was artificially inflated last year, researchers say (June 2018, San Francisco Gate)

• Bitcoin prices have been manipulated, study says (June 2018, Channel3000)

• How S&P 500 options may be used to manipulate VIX ‘fear gauge’ (June 2017, MarketWatch Opinion)

• Study: Top Bankers Suffered No Career Penalties Since Financial Crisis (June 2017, Vocativ)