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Michael Burry Profiled: Bloomberg Risk Takers (video)
Thanks to Kjetil for passing the link below along and Andrew for letting me know when it came on TV yesterday.
July 20 (Bloomberg) -- "Bloomberg Risk Takers" profiles Michael Burry, the former hedge-fund manager who predicted the housing market’s plunge. He forecast that the bubble would burst as early as 2007, and he acted on his conviction by betting against subprime mortgages. The former head of Scion Capital LLC was profiled in Bloomberg columnist and bestselling author Michael Lewis' book "The Big Short".
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Buffett, Blankfein, Bloomberg, Snyder: Small Businesses
Link to video: Buffett, Blankfein, Bloomberg, Snyder: Small Businesses Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) – Warren Buffett, the billionaire chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Michael Bloomberg,...
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Fund Star From Crisis Looks To Raise Money Again
Michael Burry, the Bay Area hedge-fund manager who gained attention for his profitable bet against subprime mortgages, is looking to raise between $100 million to $200 million from investors after returning outside money in his Scion Capital in 2008,...
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Michael Burry: Bernanke Can’t Use ‘poison As The Cure’
Found via GuruFocus.Michael Burry, the former hedge-fund manager who predicted the housing market’s plunge, said Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke is trying to use “poison as the cure” by pumping more cash into the economy to spur growth.Bernanke’s...
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Video: Michael Burry On Bloomberg
Link to: Burry Discusses Investing in Farmland, Real Estate, Gold ………. Article: Burry, Predictor of Mortgage Collapse, Bets on Farmland, Gold Excerpt: Michael Burry, the former hedge-fund manager who predicted the housing market’s plunge, said...
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Ny Times Op-ed: I Saw The Crisis Coming. Why Didn’t The Fed? - By Michael J. Burry
I have often wondered why nobody in Washington showed any interest in hearing exactly how I arrived at my conclusions that the housing bubble would burst when it did and that it could cripple the big financial institutions. A week ago I learned the answer...
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