Exposing Financial Fraud | How To Hold Deceptive Businesses Responsible
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Carson Block joins the podcast today to discuss his work as an "activist short seller". As the founder of Muddy Waters Research, Carson is known for alleging fraudulent accounting practices in publicly traded companies.
Carson was exposed to investment at a young age, and through his experience, he discovered the dark side of major companies' accounting practices. Since then, he has made it his mission to uncover financial manipulation, expose it, and hold these actions accountable…
In this episode, we touch on:
- What an "activist short seller" is.
- How companies can significantly manipulate their financials.
- Who typically directs financial accounting within companies.
To find out more about Carson and his work, click here now!
Episode also available on Apple Podcast: http://apple.co/30PvU9C
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| 0:00.0 | Forget frequently asked questions. |
| 0:02.0 | Common sense. |
| 0:03.0 | Common knowledge or Google. |
| 0:05.0 | How about advice from a real genius? |
| 0:07.0 | 95% of people in any profession are good enough to be qualified in licensed. |
| 0:11.0 | 5% go above and beyond. |
| 0:13.0 | They become very good at what they do, but only 0.1% are real geniuses. |
| 0:18.0 | Richard Jacobs has made it his life's mission to find them for you. |
| 0:22.5 | He hunts down and interviews geniuses in every field. |
| 0:25.3 | Sleep science, cancer, stem cells, ketogenic diets, and more. |
| 0:28.9 | Here come the geniuses. |
| 0:30.6 | This is the Finding Genius podcast. |
| 0:33.2 | The Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:37.9 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finan Genius podcast. |
| 0:41.8 | Today I have Carson Block. |
| 0:43.4 | He's the chief investment officer of Muddy Waters Capital LLC, an activist investment |
| 0:48.5 | firm, and Muddy Waters conducts extensive due diligence-based investment research. |
| 0:53.5 | We have companies around the world. |
| 0:55.0 | Carson is also the founder of Zeros TV. So the website is Zeros.tv, an online channel dedicated to |
| 1:01.3 | short-selling related video content. And Muddy Waters, the firm had gained fame in 2011, |
| 1:06.4 | following the publication of its research on Sino Forest Corporation, which exposed the company as a massive fraud. |
| 1:12.5 | And there's many other activist campaigns that Money Waters has been involved in, |
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