James Chanos is a legendary American hedge-fund manager and president and founder of Kynikos Associates, a New York City investment company focused on short selling. He rose to fame in the 1980s as a short seller who had a knack of spotting stocks he considered to be overvalued. After working as an analyst at several firms, he founded Kynikos (Greek for “cynic”) as a firm specializing in short selling.
This post features Chanos being interviewed by Rob Johnson of New Deal 2.0 – a one-stop shop for current news, fresh insight, and sharp analysis of the country’s fiscal crisis.
This is good stuff – click here for a Verbalink transcript.
Source: New Deal 2.0, August 2009.
