The Electric Typewriter

Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.
12th Oct

by Michael Lewis

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Michael Burry always saw the world differently — due, he believed, to the childhood loss of one eye. So when the 32-year-old investor spotted the huge bubble in the subprime-mortgage bond market, in 2004, then created a way to bet against it, he wasn’t surprised that no one understood what he was doing.

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