It is one of the most bi zarre searches since Bin Laden.
Regulators are still looking for a Waldo (star, of course, of
"Where's Waldo?") so they can pin the blame on someone — and any old,
fumbling fat-fingered trader will do — for the near catastrophic
decline in stock prices last Thursday.
Now, in the latest
apparent development in this case, The New York Times said the
government is interrogating a trader — probably at Gitmo — about
"heavy selling in the market for stock index futures."