November 2024
A hedge fund manager’s four tips for avoiding death by shorting
“Stocks that are 80 or 90 per cent down, they can get just a little bit of good news and then double,” Plato’s David Allen warns hedge fund hopefuls.
September 2023
The mystery of Keith Gill, the Dumb Money hero who crashed Wall Street
In 2021, he was hailed as an investing champion, now he’s the subject of a Hollywood film. But despite making millions, he’s nowhere to be found.
December 2022
Michael Burry says crypto audits ‘essentially meaningless’
The investor who foresaw the housing market crash in 2008 is sceptical about today’s crypto audits.
January 2020
How Republicans came to deify the presidency
When US Republicans vote to acquit Donald Trump it will be the culmination of half a century of conservative thinking towards an all-powerful presidency,