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#85 Bethany McLean: Crafting a Narrative

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Short Sellers Are Biased

There's this idea that short sellers are bad people somehow, because they might profit if something fails. Even other journalists said to me whel you took a tip from a short sellerow, how could you do that? I i thought, everybody's biased. Company management is biased. The annals to is vi rating on the stock is biased, if for no other reason than confirmation bias,. And portfollo managers, who own this stock are biased. And so yes, a short seller is biased too, but one is ah, but there is still this, you even see it on twitter to day in the tesla battle, that somehow short sellers are less valid human beings or...

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