The Grant Williams Podcast - Short Shrift

The Grant Williams Podcast

Grant Williams

Business, Business:investing, Investing

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Grant invites two accomplished shortsellers, Marc Cohodes and Bill Fleckenstein to discuss the wild gyrations in equity markets in recent days as a coordinated move by retail investors to attack 'shortsellers' and inflict pain upon Wall Street proves to be, in some ways at least, a roaring success. There are, however, nuances to this story which are perhaps not broadly understood and are in need of a little illumination - most notably, the difference between 'shortsellers' and 'highly leveraged hedge fund shorts'. Bill, Marc and Grant discuss the important differences between the two, the events that have transpired and the potential path from here as well as some thoughts on why and how the system is broken, where the anger of retail investors ought to perhaps more accurately be directed and why this growing revolution may be an important turning point...

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0:00.0	Before we begin I have an announcement to make regarding the future of this
0:10.9	podcast beginning February 1st the Grant Williams podcast will become part of the Copper membership
0:16.8	tier of my new website Grant-Williams.com.
0:20.3	Now the Copper tier will include every future episode of the end game, the Super Terrific
0:25.2	Happy Hour and the Narrative Game, as well as access to a series of special one-on-one conversations
0:30.4	I'll be having with a group of truly extraordinary people throughout the rest of this year,
0:34.5	beginning with my dear friend and mentor, Anthony Deeden of Adelice Holdings.
0:39.8	At the site, you'll also find a Silver Tier, which in addition to access to the Grant Williams
0:43.6	podcast will include a year's subscription to my monthly newsletter, things that make you
0:48.0	go home. But you can find out a lot more about all that by visiting Grant-Williams.com. And now on with the show.
0:57.0	Here's the bit where I remind you that nothing we discussed should be considered as investment
1:06.2	advice. This conversation is for informational and hopefully entertainment purposes only.
1:11.3	So while we hope you find it both informative and entertaining,
1:14.4	please do your own research or speak to a financial advisor before putting a dime of
1:19.3	your money into these crazy markets. Okay, so this is a special unplanned C to the Pence edition of the Grant willingness
1:31.2	podcast.
1:32.2	After the craziness in equity markets this past week, I felt of the about what's transpired over recent days. So forgive the lack of Polish, bear with us if we wander
1:45.2	from topic to topic and back again, but please take this chance to listen to the thoughts of
1:49.3	my two friends, Mark Cahodis and Bill Fleckenstein, as they tried to shed some light on what has been an
1:54.8	unforgettable week. Also please know that we recorded this podcast prior to the news that
2:00.4	Robin Hood had tapped its credit lines after hours on Thursday.
2:05.0	Well, welcome everybody to a special edition of this podcast.
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