Loeb: Investors could be economically or technologically illiterate before the GFC
Dan Loeb · Dan Loeb: The Lost Art of Short Selling, and Why Stock Picking is Back · Jun 5, 2026 · at 9:10
Dan Loeb, founder of hedge fund Third Point, discusses how tech literacy and macroeconomic understanding became essential for investors after the 2008 financial crisis.
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“You could be technologically illiterate or just say, I don't do it. And you could also be even more or less, you know, up until the GFC, I think you could be more or less economically illiterate and make a lot of money.”
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