Customer Quotes by James Chanos

8 Customer quotes by James Chanos

James Chanos shares eight brief statements that cut to the core of customer impact on investment decisions. His voice is direct and to the point.

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And so it can be very much in the interest of bank A to sell-short bank B shares, or buy CDSes on…

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I call it the Rule of Three. If you read a company's financial statements three times, and you still can't figure out…

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I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think…

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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…

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While short sellers probably will never be popular on Wall Street, they often are the ones wearing the white hats when it…

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It's almost sickening now that the regulators 'on the beat' while the biggest credit collapse in modern financial history unfolded are now…

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I used to think that good short-sellers could be trained like long-focused value investors because it should be the same skill set;…

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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 imaginable every day.…

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