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by bobbiechen 2182 days ago
Similarly, the book The Big Short (Michael Lewis) notes that hedge fund manager Michael Burry read hundreds of prospectuses for mortgage bonds in the years leading up to 2008 and was "certain even then [in 2005] (and dead certain later) that he was the only human being on earth who read them, apart from the lawyers who drafted them." He ended up shorting these and profiting hundreds of millions of dollars.