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• Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China.
• I used to think that good short-sellers could be trained like long-focused value investors because it should be the same skill set;…
• 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…
• People who lose money always need someone to blame.
• It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again.
• And so it can be very much in the interest of bank A to sell-short bank B shares, or buy CDSes on…
• Derivatives in and of themselves are not evil. There's nothing evil about how they're traded, how they're accounted for, and how they're…
• Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the…
• Healthcare is growing now at about 10 per cent per annum in the U.S. top line, versus 3 per cent for the…
• 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…
• 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.…
• In China, remember, the the banks are arms of state policy. They loan because the local party official or regional party official…

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