The late 90s almost forced me to identify myself as a value investor, because I thought what everybody else was doing was insane.

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Michael Burry
Born in 1971 in California, Michael Burry is a former physician turned hedge-fund manager who foresaw the subprime mortgage crisis as early as 2005 and reaped enormous profits through credit-default swaps. His story was chronicled in Michael Lewis's The Big Short and the 2015 film in which Christian Bale portrayed him. A solitary contrarian, he closed Scion Asset Management in 2025.
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