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	<title>Wall Street Folly &#187; Pirate Capital</title>
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		<title>Another Pirate Capital guy joins his former compatriates at FrontFour</title>
		<link>http://files.wallstreetfolly.com/wordpress/2008/01/another-pirate-capital-guy-joins-his-former-compatriates-at-frontfour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Pirate Capital director of operations Jerry Meyer was drafted as chief operating officer at FrontFour Capital.&#160; You may recall that FrontFour was started by&#160; ex-Pirate Andrew Stotland after the late 2006 mutiny at Pirate where half of its staff bolted. Other ex-Pirates who joined FrontFour shortly after inception include Carl Klein, David Lorber and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avast Ye Mateys! Today is &#8220;International Talk Like a Pirate Day&#8221;!</title>
		<link>http://files.wallstreetfolly.com/wordpress/2007/09/avast-ye-mateys-today-is-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Pirate Capital&#8217;s Tom Hudson probably didn&#8217;t stay out to celebrate Rosh Hashanah last week, but he&#8217;s not totally left out in the cold as far as seasonal holidays go.&#160; Today he gets one that he can totally appreciate.&#160; If you&#8217;ve tried to reach him in the office today and he&#8217;s not there, this might be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AAAAaaargh!: Pirate Capital says the press reports about their shrinking asset base are &#8220;grossly misleading&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Pirate Capital put out a statement saying that the press has been publishing &#34;grossly misleading information&#34; about their shrinking funds: 

Pirate Capital issued the following statement today: 
Various media have published grossly misleading information regarding results at funds managed by Pirate Capital. Some reports have suggested that Pirate funds lost almost 80 percent of their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pirate Capital, taking on water, halts withdrawals from two funds</title>
		<link>http://files.wallstreetfolly.com/wordpress/2007/09/pirate-capital-taking-on-water-halts-withdrawals-from-two-funds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Sinking ship:&#160; &#160;With its assets dwindling more with each successive report &#8212; down some 80% on the year so far from $1.8 billion to $375 million on 9/1 &#8212; Pirate Capital&#8217;s loutish captain Tom Hudson has announced to its investors that it&#8217;s halting withdrawals from its two Jolly Roger Activist funds. Opened in 2006 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking on water: Pirate Capital&#8217;s capital sinks to around $400 million</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Pirate Capital is taking on water and clients are abandoning ship &#8212; fast. The most recent Hedge Fund Alert reports that the capital under management is reportedly down to around only $400 million owing to recent investor withdrawals.&#160; Pirate and its brutish founder, Tom Hudson,&#160; managed $1.9&#160; billion in assets in the summer of 2006 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pirate Capital investors bailing</title>
		<link>http://files.wallstreetfolly.com/wordpress/2007/06/pirate-capital-investors-bailing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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The June edition of Absolute Return magazine is reporting that investors are bailing on Pirate Capital.&#160; The fund&#8217;s assets, which started the year at $1.03 billion drooped to $761 million on May 1, up slightly from $739 million in April which was the lowest asset base since July 2005. That&#8217;s down from its peak of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pirate Capital alums banding together in a new hedge fund</title>
		<link>http://files.wallstreetfolly.com/wordpress/2007/01/pirate-capital-alums-banding-together-in-a-new-hedge-fund/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s life after Pirate Capital for three mateys who jumped ship in the mutiny last September and another who left a month earlier.&#160; Financial News reports that two of the analysts formerly with the fund, Zachary George (pictured near left) and David Lorber, as well as portolio manager Carl Klein have joined FrontFour Capital Management, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hot off the SEC presses:  Pirate Capital goes after Brink&#8217;s board representation</title>
		<link>http://files.wallstreetfolly.com/wordpress/2007/01/hot-off-the-sec-presses-pirate-capital-goes-after-brinks-board-representation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just filed with the SEC, Pirate Capital is nominating two of its own to the Brink&#8217;s board of directors: Tom Hudson, the hedge fund&#8217;s founder and Christopher Kelly, its General Counsel.&#160; Here&#8217;s the letter to the Brink&#8217;s board:

&#160; &#160;&#160; &#160;&#160; &#160;&#160; &#160;&#160; &#160;&#160; &#160;&#160; &#160;&#160; &#160;&#160; &#160;&#160; &#160; PIRATE CAPITAL LLC
&#160; &#160;&#160; &#160;&#160; &#160;&#160; &#160;&#160; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jim Cramer: &#8220;Pirate Capital is like a giant sell flag over the horizon&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://files.wallstreetfolly.com/wordpress/2006/12/jim-cramer-pirate-capital-is-like-a-giant-sell-flag-over-the-horizon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Last night Jim Cramer dumped all over Pirate Capital in a segment devoted to them on &#34;Mad Money&#34;.&#160; Here are some screen shots of the show that we snapped.&#160; We suspect you&#8217;ll get the general gist from the captions on the shots.

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		<title>Brinks 13d filing: Looks like it&#8217;s back to business as usual at Pirate Capital</title>
		<link>http://files.wallstreetfolly.com/wordpress/2006/11/brinks-13d-filing-looks-like-its-back-to-business-as-usual-at-pirate-capital/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The folks at Pirate Capital seem to have put the turbulence behind them from a couple of months ago when half of their analytical staff quit.&#160; They&#8217;ve put their activist pirate hats back on and want security services provider Brinks to, among other things, explore a sale of the company.&#160; Pirate owns 8.5% of Brinks.&#160; [...]]]></description>
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