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If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way... →
It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again.
The investment we're all looking for is actually saving labor... Look at what the internet is doing to retail.
And so it can be very much in the interest of bank A to sell-short bank B shares, or buy CDSes on bank B, because they have exposure to bank B.... →
I'll always understand the Schadenfreude aspect to short-selling. I get that no one will always like it. I'm also convinced to the deepest... →
In China, remember, the the banks are arms of state policy. They loan because the local party official or regional party official tells them we need... →
It's almost sickening now that the regulators 'on the beat' while the biggest credit collapse in modern financial history unfolded are... →
The Chinese banking system is built on quicksand and that's the one thing a lot of people don't realize. Everybody seems to think it is a... →
The interesting thing about the China story, getting back to the macro and micro, and as dire as I think the macro story is - due to bad credit and... →
The marginal people on the trading desks, there's no skill set. If they don't trade derivatives, I don't know what they can do. The next... →
The U.S. healthcare system is probably the most interesting large group of companies that are heading for major problems that we've seen in a... →
What people don't realize is that China papered over its last two credit bubbles, those in 1999 and 2004. The banks were never bailed out - they... →
While short sellers probably will never be popular on Wall Street, they often are the ones wearing the white hats when it comes to looking for and... →