Zero Hedge is happy to present readers with the NYSE's response to the earlier post on dropping program trading data. I would love to see clarity on what it is that the NYSE classifies "account type indicator data" as opposed to old reliable DPTR. I imagine there will be significant statistical data adjustment post fact. Furthermore, in allowing the SLP program to go into effect on an expedited basis, the SEC said it did so because the program did not affect the protection of investors and impose any significant burden on competition.

Since we started unraveling Project Enigma, we have been literally inundated with requests for Zero Hedge paraphernalia.

We have decided to give in.

Now is your chance to wear Zero support... proudly.

Round three of the Taibbi - Van Pragg welterweight death-match will be brought to you compliments of the MGM Mirage (in exchange for 3 bond coupon waivers).

In the meantime, here is Matt's Round 2.

In a move set to infuriate and send many Zero Hedge readers over the top, the NYSE has taken action to make sure that nobody will henceforth be able to keep track of the complete dominance that Goldman Sachs exerts over the New York Stock Exchange. This basically ends our weekly Program Trading updates disclosed every Thursday indicating that Goldman has singlehandedly captured all of NYSE's program trading.

It has been Zero Hedge's understanding that traditionally lobbies of any kind tend to at least make a tacit acknowledgment of their conflicts of interest. This is especially true when the "lobby" in particular is none other than Wall Street legal powerhouse Wachtell Lipton, which in a series of machine-gunned missives which Zero Hedge has recently obtained, did everything in its power to persuade the SEC to adopt every possible action that would essentially destroy short-sellers in the days after the Lehman collapse.

The last time we got a -2.42 standard deviation between confidence and the market, things got real ugly, real fast.

Zero Hedge's favorite artist Geoffrey Raymond hits the streets and captures the creative process in action. Also, for all who want to share their thoughts first hand (and thus become a part of history) on the "giant vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money", the annotation of the "Big Lloyd 3 (The Root)" will occur this Friday behind ground zero (85 Broad) - not to be confused with "Big Lloyd 1 (,6 Billion)". Pens will be provided.

Last week's best performers were the companies that either filed for bankruptcy or were on the verge of doing so. Last week's worst performers were the companies that either filed for bankruptcy or were on the verge of doing so.

After throwing $1 trillion at the mortgage problem, the president's working group realized that it needed someone who actually knew what the problem was, so it hired TREPP a few weeks ago. And now that they have a cash flow modeling system, the gentle souls with the invisible hands have expanded their hiring efforts, with the latest fat fingered talent sought by the New York Fed being that of an MBS Quant.

Alright...

I'm reading two books right now, which I will deal with in two posts. The first is The Forgotten Continent by Michael Reid, the former bureau Chief for Latam at The Economist about modern Latin American history and development.