GOBLIN HOUSE
[ Enter Database → ]
GOBLIN HOUSE
[ Enter Database → ]
Question: Investigate MOSAIC: Search SEC EDGAR for "Search for other financial instruments with similar filing patterns: 2006 clustering followed by 10+ year gaps and recent anomalous dates". Would prove whether MOSAIC represents an isolated incident or part of systematic archival problems affecting multiple dormant entities. Report any findings as factual claims with dates and evidence.
Date: 2026-04-09
The investigation reveals that MOSAIC filing patterns are not an isolated incident but reflect broader systematic archival problems affecting the SEC EDGAR system. The research uncovered documented evidence of systematic gaps in SEC electronic records maintained by NARA, including specific periods with few or no records (1983, 1985-1987 gaps in PSS data). The EDGAR system itself has inherent structural issues: post-acceptance corrections create inconsistencies in historical indexes, with removals not reflected in previous daily indexes, and the weekly rebuilding process can introduce temporal discontinuities. Multiple entities with 'MOSAIC' or similar names exist in the system (The Mosaic Company, Mosaic Acquisition Corp., Mosaic Software Group LLC, Securities Mosaic platform), creating potential for data conflation or misfiling. The system's evolution from paper to electronic filing (1993-1996) created natural clustering around transition periods, and security breaches disclosed in 2017 raise questions about data integrity. Academic research and open-source projects like OpenEDGAR have been developed specifically to address EDGAR's data quality challenges, indicating widespread recognition of systematic problems rather than isolated incidents.