"Big Short" Investor Closes Fund After Billion-dollar AI Bets

Michael Burry, the investor who gained fame after being featured in "The Big Short" -- the film about the 2008 financial crisis -- has closed his hedge fund Scion Capital amid growing Wall Street ...
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Investor who predicted 2008 financial crisis comes up with another prediction — this time against AI

Smart investors always have eyes on the numbers and read the pulse of the market, which helps them spot a crisis on the ...

Who Michael Lewis Wanted To Cast For ‘The Big Short’ Movie (Fresh Air+)

This year marks the 15th anniversary of the book “The Big Short,” in which writer Michael Lewis chronicled the people who ...
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Meredith Whitney famously called the 2008 financial crisis. Here’s the new problem with the U.S. economy, she says

Nearly two decades ago, financial analyst Meredith Whitney was labeled the “Oracle of Wall Street” for her bearish views on banks ahead of the global financial crisis. Featured in “The Big Short” book ...
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A Trump deregulator may set us up for a sequel to the 2008 crisis

The movie “The Big Short” — dramatizing the reckless behavior in the banking and mortgage industries that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis — captures much of Wall Street’s misconduct but ...