Article written by Prieur du Plessis, editor of the Investment Postcards from Cape Town blog.

“Bloomberg Risk Takers” profiles Michael Burry, the former hedge-fund manager who predicted the housing market’s plunge. He forecast that the bubble would burst as early as 2007, and he acted on his conviction by betting against subprime mortgages. The former head of Scion Capital LLC was profiled in Bloomberg columnist and bestselling author Michael Lewis’ book “The Big Short“.

Source: Bloomberg, July 20, 2011.

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