Thursday, May 31, 2012

Important Factors Missing in "Whys" Behind Facebook's IPO Face-plant


Since Facebook's original blip up in the first few hours of post-IPO trading, Facebook shares are down 37% in 8 days of open market public trading  This is not merely an epic IPO flop, but it will surely go down in history as . . . 


"The Facebook Face-plant"

. . .  and the downside that yet remains is SIGNIFICANT, which intrinsic value analysts, without ties to the syndicate firms suggesting a fair value for Facebook shares of $9.50.  And as implausible as it may seem now,  there exists a scenario that could render the stock essentially  worthless.


So What Caused This?

There have been causal factors widely discussed in the media by respected financial pundits who have attributed this astonishing manifestation to such items as:
  • Delayed NASDAQ Opening -- The effect has been way over-blown, and there have been whisperings that this was surreptitiously orchestrated by a select few in order to draw attention away from what was the real problem . . . sudden and profound evaporation of investor interest;
  • Over-Weighted Advertising Revenue -- Nothing new here, and this fact reads as plain as day in the prospectus and was openly discussed in the road shows well in advance of the IPO . . . this did NOT cause investors "to run for the hills" overnight;
  • Uncertainty Over Monetizing Mobile Market -- This is directly related to the previous point, and also nothing new that the market needed additional time to absorb . . . and it did NOT cause demand for the Facebook IPO shares to suddenly disappear;
  • Concurrent Increase in Deal Size & Offering Price -- This was discussed as if it had never been done before.  Are you kidding?  Hot IPOs are often adjusted in this manner, and always in response to exhaustive market "reads" throughout the syndicate.  And do you really think the massive syndicate which included just about every Wall St. firm would have so egregiously misread market demand?  And do you think Facebook senior executives and its Board were also asleep at the switch on this?  If so, perhaps you would be interested in buying the Brooklyn Bridge -- I've heard it is for sale".

The reality is that NONE of the above factors caused the wholesale disappearance of investors between when the deal was priced at the end of the day on May 17, 2012, and when the Facebook IPO shares began trading the next day. 


Why Did Investors Suddenly Get "Cold Feet"?

So what caused droves of investors to suddenly get cold feet on one of the most highly anticipated IPOs in history?  And keep in mind about a week before pricing, retail investors were hearing this deal was so hot, the stock could hit $75 to $90 per share on day one.  In fact, many were bemoaning getting squeezed out of shares at or near the offering price by institutional investors.


What is oddly missing from discussions in the news media to date is what REALLY spooked prospective investors -- to wit, two hours BEFORE pricing was set on Thursday, May 17, a blast email was circulated to just about every global, national, regional and grassroots local news organization. It was issued by a deeply experienced and highly knowledgeable former Morgan Stanley executive who founded the CMBS business at JPMorgan and created the IQ® franchise at Morgan Stanley. It also went to numerous investors and was widely circulated on Facebook and Twitter. This communique waxed eloquent about a very real scenario that could render the soon-to-be-traded Facebook shares worthless, as a result of its:
  1. Criminal Fraud in the cover-up of the MorganStanleyGate scandal, stemming from Facebook's incestuous relationship with Morgan Stanley, and instigated by Erskine Bowles who serves on the board of directors of BOTH Facebook AND Morgan Stanley;
  2. Disturbing "Big Brother" Relationship with the Federal government (e.g., CIA, FBI, NSA, Homeland Security), in fact it's becoming increasingly obvious that much of Facebook's growth was been clandestinely facilitated by the U.S. government (more on this in the next section).
  3. Highly Vulnerable Business Model, where Facebook stands one short electronic bridge away from the mass exodus of an already intensely unhappy and distrustful user base.  Click here for a sample proposal made to Google to do precisely this.



Modern Day Wizard of Oz?

Facebook's Face-plant has exposed CEO Mark Zuckerberg as  a governmental puppet with a mere wunderkind facade, who is nothing more than a modern day Wizard of Oz . . . with the curtain pulled back of course.  

How else could a socially retarded college drop out become the CEO of the largest social network and register a net worth equal to the bottom 20% of ALL U.S. households by the age of 28?  If you saw the movie Social Network, Mr. Zuckerberg's notorious social shortcomings were displayed, and there seems to be a conspicuous gap between when he had a couple dozen colleges signed up and when Facebook's global reach was realized.  How did he pull that off?

He had a great idea at the right time, but he is NOT responsible for seamlessly managing the growth of fully integrated servers throughout the world -- ONLY the vast resources of the US government are capable of doing something of this massive scale without a hitch, and the quid pro quo was the secret establishment of "Big Brother" surveillance on an unsuspecting populace.  And this also explains why Facebook supports censoring the internet via the dangerous CISPA legislation, which has already been passed by the House of Representatives.

Evidencing how Zuckerberg is in way over his head at this point is his continued silence as Facebook shares carry on with their precipitous free fall.  If he were a legitimate CEO, he would have been out in front of this from day one, defending the viability of the franchise and addressing concerns about strategic growth with thoughtful responses. 


Concluding Remarks

The widely circulated May 17 communiqué which was issued two hours prior to deal launch played a material role in instigating the sudden evaporation of investor interest in the Facebook IPO, which was accomplished with a very powerful weapon known as the Truth.

Moreover, efforts to drive down Facebook's market capitalization will continue until such time that Facebook: (1) ceases its perpetrated fraud against Spencer C. Young; and (2) removes Erskine Bowles from its Board of Directors, the details of which were articulated in a May 23 transmittal to Facebook Management and its Board.

And the time has arrived for Morgan Stanley to admit to its culpability in the vast transgressions of MorganStanleyGate, spanning nearly 10 years, and include:
and return the $50 million in net worth thus stolen, 80% of which will be used to establish a foundation to help others similarly victimized.



Emails Exchanged With First Lady Michelle Obama on Rude Awakening

The below are emails exchanged with First Lady Michelle Obama:

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-----Original Message-----
From: Spencer C. Young <                        @aol.com>
To: First Lady Michelle Obama <                               @barackobama.com>
Sent: Thu, May 31, 2012 1:46 am
Subject: Regarding Your Email Titled: "Thank you, Spencer"


Michelle --

As a registered Republican voter in North Carolina, but effectively an Independent at heart, I was an enthusiastic supporter of your husband in the 2008 Presidential election and therefore representative of a key demographic in a "Battleground State" that put you both in the White House.  I once had "Hope", which you and Barack have since quelled. 

To begin with, you failed to respond to my numerous implored requests (click here for just ONE of many instances) to take a interest in helping resolve "the worst bank foreclosure fraud in U.S. history".  (Note: if you Google that which is in quotations, my plight will invariably be in up to 8 of the top 10 results returned, and if you click on the underlying hyperlink to this quotation, you will be provided with a precis of this travesty).  And all you had to do was simply inquire about it.

Moreover, instead of protecting, upholding and defending the U.S. Constitution, Barack has further decimated it time and time again, for instance:
  1. NDAA -- He surreptitiously signed NDAA into law on New Year's Eve (with its indefinite detention provisions), despite having promised to veto it;
  2. H.R. 347 -- He quietly signed this into law, which denies the right to free speech and to peacefully assemble;
  3. Police State -- He orchestrated through Janet Napolitano (Homeland Security) the unlawful coordinated nation-wide crackdown of the Occupy Movement, via brutally vicious attacks and baseless arrests of peaceful protestors;
  4. CISPA -- although he's promised to veto this dangerous trojan horse legislation that will surely censor free speech on the internet, conventional wisdom is that Barack will again be proven a liar, just as he was with NDAA
Which leads me to my next point.  America has no tolerance for LIARS, and Barack has shown himself to be a prolific prevaricator, where the below video has 65 of his LIES.


Moreover, your husband's secretive drone strikes have managed to murder hundreds of children (see below picture of one such child, and imagine how you would feel if this were Sasha or Malia and then multiply that unimaginably horrific feeling by a few hundred).  In my opinion, your husband should be prosecuted for Crimes Against Humanity as a War Criminal.

One of hundreds of children murdered in Barack Obama's Secret Drone Strikes

Although I don't like the prospect of Mitt Romney as President, you and Barack are in for a rude awakening in November  . . . for I believe I represent the views of MOST swing voter Americans in saying:  "Enough is enough . . . you MUST go !!", and I believe this will be the case with virtually EVERY incumbent, and this will continue until those elected finally get it.  

The time has come to take back our nation, as you and Barack have failed miserably in living up to what were once highly promising expectations.


Sincerely,

Spencer C. Young



-----Original Message-----
From: First Lady Michelle Obama <                               @barackobama.com>
To: Spencer C. Young <                        @aol.com>
Sent: Wed, May 30, 2012 12:47 pm
Subject: Thank you, Spencer

Spencer --

Here it is, straight up:

Tomorrow's a big fundraising deadline.

It's a simple equation, really: What we put into this campaign is what we'll get out of it.

Please chip in $3 or whatever you can afford before tomorrow's deadline:

https://donate.barackobama.com/May-Deadline

I'm ready to work, and I hope you are, too.

Thank you -- and see you out there,

Michelle
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