'The Assassin' Fahmi Quadir on How to Survive as a Short-Seller
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Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Odd Thoughts Podcast. I'm Tracy Allaway.
And I'm Joe Wiesenthal.
Joe, I have a soft spot for short sellers. I think what they do is sort of sometimes similar to journalism. Right? You're trying to root out a particular story about a specific company and bring it to light,
I guess.
And I always wanted to talk to this particular short seller. She's kind of famous Yeah. In the space. I think she's one of the few short sellers, maybe, who's been in a Netflix documentary. More than one, I at this point.
No. It's it's pretty like, I I totally agree with you about short sellers. I mean, I think, like, when you look at the broad history of markets or particularly, you know, US markets over the last several decades, they basically go up, and there's a lot of money to be made by just, like, you know, betting on the line go up. So I think you have to have, like, a sort of distinct personality type to think, oh, maybe there is some other interesting way to make money in this market besides betting on stocks going up. But it's a phone it's an important service because one, you know, as they will say,
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