shortselling

The destructive quality of irredeemable credit, understood by some before the U.S. mortgage crash, obvious to more in its wake, was crystallized in the too-low, centrally controlled, interest rates that flushed a bacillus of fake money and…

Famous shortseller Jim Chanos was in Hong Kong and Australia and reported back on what he saw to Bloomberg Television. Copy provided below including a link to the video.

BBC’s Hardtalk recently featured Kyle Bass, Founder of Hayman Capital, a hedge fund based in Texas to talk about global markets and the sovereign debt crisis. Video below

We’ve reached a very rare moment in economic history where the problem is greater than the ability of the politicians to respond.

The overall gist of Jim Chanos' comments on Bloomberg yesterday were that China has off-balance sheet contingent liabilities due to its implicit commitment to state-owned enterprises which are kneee-deep in land and property speculation.…

Shortseller Jim Chanos was on CNBC talking about the markets and the economy. The gist of his comments was that there still isn't a lot he would go long on. He did say he is long casinos in China but in general he remains short. Video…

Jim Chanos sees a slowdown in residential property sales coupled with declining prices. Real estate companies are starting to close down. He argued on CNBC yesterday that this means the first signs of a Chinese slowdown are showing. Video…

Fortune recently did a story on Jim Chanos called "Chanos vs. China" which warrants reading.  Below is the associated video in which you can hear Chanos making the bearish case for China. Chanos is the most unapologetic and…

Jim Chanos, the famous shortseller, was on CNBC talking about the auto bailouts. Chanos thinks the story the administration is telling us about the success of the bailouts is misleading. Note the figures that Chanos cites on the return on…

By Chris Wood of Casey Research “We want to kick off 2010 with a truly revolutionary and magical product.” That was Steve Jobs, preaching to a packed house at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco back on January 27, as…