One trade has the balls to tell the truth.

The guy only claims to be an independent trader. He is expressing his view, and may legitimately hold it.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/09/27/140843111/no-hoax-bbc-says-alessio-rastani-is-a-trader-who-wants-a-recession

If he is part of the Yes Men, he did his cause well.

...As people become anxious about the future, I expect the media to present people with varying points of view about what it might hold. Some of them will have secret agendas...

If we are honest with ourselves, we all have those same objectives.

...the guy who sells water at the stop light has these same objectives.

armchair_warrior said:

http://www.businessinsider.com/turns-out-the-trader-who-scared-the-bejeezus-out-of-bbc-viewers-was-just-some-guy-living-in-his-girlfriends-house-2011-9

is the media out to discredit the guy? lol they rarely try to discredit other "experts" on tv who make dumb ass comments all the time. yet why would the media go out of its way to try to get this guy?

Because he threatens the status quo.

The traditional media does not benefit from challenges to the status quo.