John Paulson: Villian or Genius?
That's the subject of my latest Portfolio article, which is online here.
In the context of an in-depth profile of John Paulson, I discuss the role of short-selling in the recent calamity. Note Jim Chanos's account of a conversation that he had with Alan Schwartz of Bear Stearns just before Bear went belly-up.
According to Chanos, Schwartz tried to get him to go on CNBC to say that "everything's fine."
Schwartz denies the account. Who do you believe?
UPDATE: Portfolio's Felix Salmon follows up and says that he misread the article as an attack on shorting (quite an amusing thing that would be, coming from me). As I told Felix, I don't think Paulson did anything wrong.
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Labels: Alan Schwartz, Bear Stearns, James Chanos, John Paulson
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