James Chanos (born 1958 in Milwaukee) is the president and founder of Kynikos Associates, a New York City investment company that is focused on short selling. He graduated from Yale in 1980. Kynikos is one of the few firms specializing in short selling that survived the bull market of the 1990s.
THE ART OF SHORT-SELLING
By Chris Mayer
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James Chanos in wikipedia
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