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My Life in 4 Trades - Carson Block on Why Activist Short Sellers Are Misunderstood

Real Vision: Finance & Investing

Real Vision

Business News, News, Investing, Business

4.11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Here's a full-length episode from Real Vision's new original series, My Life in 4 Trades - be sure to subscribe. Carson Block joins Maggie Lake to discuss how he went from feeling like an outsider to being an insider in the finance community. Carson explains how writing one report unveiling fraudulent activity at a publicly-traded Chinese company led to the creation of Muddy Waters Research and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.7

Hi everyone and welcome to another edition of My Life in Four Trades.

0:35.7

Joining me today is Carson Block, one of the world's best known and most successful

0:39.8

activist short sellers.

0:41.6

His journey is fascinating and often misunderstood.

0:45.0

Our discussion was eye-opening and compelling.

0:48.0

Enjoy the conversation.

0:53.2

So hi Carson, welcome to My Life in Four Trades.

0:56.1

Thanks, good to be here.

0:58.1

So before we jump into your four choices, why don't you tell us a little bit about your

1:03.2

background?

1:04.2

What was young Carson Block like?

1:08.0

Probably more trusting of the world than a present day Carson Block, but yeah, I grew

1:14.3

up in a wealthy suburb of New York City, but I kind of grew up on the outside looking

1:18.5

in and I think that's one of the ways I got here really was because I ended up being

1:25.3

pretty critical of very establishment people and families just because socially that's

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