short sellers

3 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 9, 2020 by Bethany McLean · across every show →

Everything said about short sellers, oldest first

Jun 9, 2020
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McLean: Corporate management and long investors are as biased as short sellers
“Company management is biased. The analyst who has a buy rating on the stock is biased if for no other reason than confirmation bias, right? And portfolio managers who own the stock are biased, and so yes, a short seller is biased too, but everyone is.”
Bethany McLean Jun 9, 2020 ▶ 10:27 #85 Bethany McLean: Crafting a Narrative
Jun 9, 2020
Assertion Not checkable as stated
McLean: Journalists criticized her for taking tips from Enron short sellers
“Back in the day when I wrote about Enron, even other journalists said to me, well, you took a tip from a short seller. How, how could you do that?”
Bethany McLean Jun 9, 2020 ▶ 10:21 #85 Bethany McLean: Crafting a Narrative
Mar 4, 2025 neutral
Insight
Wolfe: Great entrepreneurs prove short sellers wrong rather than banning them
“You know, you've got similarly, the best entrepreneurs, when short sellers are like, you know, saying something, they don't want to ban short selling. They don't want short sellers to be arrested. They just prove them wrong.”
Josh Wolfe Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 40:37 Josh Wolfe: Human Advantage in the World of AI
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