Paul Tudor Jones

Founder & CIO, Tudor Investment Corporation · 1 appearance on the record.

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He founded Tudor Investment Corporation in 1980 and rose to prominence after predicting and shorting the 1987 stock market crash. Beyond trading, he co-founded the Robin Hood Foundation in 1988 and the nonprofit JUST Capital.

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3 supported 3 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not yet assessed 5 not checkable as stated how the 12 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 11 assertions · 8 opinions · 7 insights · 3 disclosures · 2 what ifs · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 12 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 6 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 5 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

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Assertion Supported

Paul Tudor Jones: US stock market capitalization is at 252% of GDP

“When I say leveraged, we're 252% of stock market cap of GDP. So, in 1929, we were, I think at the top, we were 65%, and then in 87, we got to about 85 or 90%. In 2000, We got to a 170%, and now we're at two 52”

Paul Tudor Jones Apr 28, 2026 ▶ 40:29 Legendary Trader Paul Tudor Jones on AI Risk, Bubbles and Buffett · Invest Like The Best

What they said32 Episodes1

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Assertion Partly supported

Jones: Bunker Hunt bought 200M ounces of silver at $3.50 average

“Bunker Hunt Was squeezing silver at the time, and he bought about two hundred million ounces at an average price of about three and a half bucks.”

Paul Tudor Jones Apr 28, 2026 ▶ 15:21 Legendary Trader Paul Tudor Jones on AI Risk, Bubbles and Buffett · Invest Like The Best

Assertion Partly supported

Jones: Silver crashed from $50 to under $10 in eight weeks

“Silver collapsed. It went from 50 bucks to under 10 bucks in the space of about eight weeks.”

Paul Tudor Jones Apr 28, 2026 ▶ 17:20 Legendary Trader Paul Tudor Jones on AI Risk, Bubbles and Buffett · Invest Like The Best

Opinion

Jones: Mentor Eli Tullis excelled at executing at extreme fear and greed

“He was really good at executing at the maximum apogee of fear as well as, ah, greed. He was so good at smelling that. Because he traded hardly anything but cotton, he would just sit there and he would just focus and he could just, he was just so good at waitin…”

Paul Tudor Jones Apr 28, 2026 ▶ 29:49 Legendary Trader Paul Tudor Jones on AI Risk, Bubbles and Buffett · Invest Like The Best

Opinion

Jones: Bitcoin in 2020 and Two-Year Rates in 2022 Were Knockout Trades

“If I think about big shots, just Bitcoin, 2020, a knockout. Two year rates, 2022, knockout.”

Paul Tudor Jones Apr 28, 2026 ▶ 32:36 Legendary Trader Paul Tudor Jones on AI Risk, Bubbles and Buffett · Invest Like The Best

Assertion Supported

Paul Tudor Jones: Institutional PE allocation jumped from 7% to 16%

“If you look at private equity in 2007, 2008, that was about seven percent of institutional portfolios. Now it's about 16% of the institutional portfolios.”

Paul Tudor Jones Apr 28, 2026 ▶ 42:18 Legendary Trader Paul Tudor Jones on AI Risk, Bubbles and Buffett · Invest Like The Best

Disclosure

Paul Tudor Jones wakes at 2:30 AM daily to trade London open

“I wake up at probably two 30 or three and I I'll work for half an hour, watch London open for 45 minutes, half an hour. And I'll do a lot of analytical work then. It's a quiet time, it's good. Then I'll go back to sleep and wake up at six 15.”

Paul Tudor Jones Apr 28, 2026 ▶ 45:44 Legendary Trader Paul Tudor Jones on AI Risk, Bubbles and Buffett · Invest Like The Best

Insight

Jones: Traders Need Pre-Planned, Self-Executing Strategies for Volatility

“You better have a plan ahead of time, and it better be self-executing, and you better have thought through that.”

Paul Tudor Jones Apr 28, 2026 ▶ 48:19 Legendary Trader Paul Tudor Jones on AI Risk, Bubbles and Buffett · Invest Like The Best

Disclosure

Jones: Robin Hood was founded expecting a 1929-style depression

“Robin Hood happened the day after the crash. And I maybe the worst macro call of my life was thinking we were gonna go into depression. I thought, for sure. I'd been looking at the parallels of 1929 for a year.”

Paul Tudor Jones Apr 28, 2026 ▶ 53:36 Legendary Trader Paul Tudor Jones on AI Risk, Bubbles and Buffett · Invest Like The Best

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
Legendary Trader Paul Tudor Jones on AI Risk, Bubbles and Buffett · Invest Like The Best	Apr 28, 2026	56m

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