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The investment we're all looking for is actually saving labor... Look at what the internet is doing to retail.

Author: James Chanos - American Businessman
  Internet , Look , Doing , Looking


Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the 'Edifice complex' - it's just, we can grow by putting up lots and lots of buildings and trying to attract people to come here, stay here, and put up offices here and sooner or later, you put up too many.

Author: James Chanos - American Businessman
  You , People , Simple , Grow


So you know, everyone points out Greece's default record, but the history of a lot of sovereign nations is not a good one when it comes to lending them money.

Author: James Chanos - American Businessman
  You , Money , Good , History


And so it can be very much in the interest of bank A to sell-short bank B shares, or buy CDSes on bank B, because they have exposure to bank B. It's the responsible thing to do as a fiduciary, and yet if everyone does it at the same time, it's destabilizing because everyone is selling.

Author: James Chanos - American Businessman
  Time , Everyone , Bank , Selling


People who lose money always need someone to blame.

Author: James Chanos - American Businessman
  People , Money , Lose , Blame


It's almost sickening now that the regulators 'on the beat' while the biggest credit collapse in modern financial history unfolded are now patting themselves on the back for their 'brave' stance on short-selling!

Author: James Chanos - American Businessman
  Back , History , Credit , Brave


The marginal people on the trading desks, there's no skill set. If they don't trade derivatives, I don't know what they can do. The next stop is driving a cab.

Author: James Chanos - American Businessman
  People , Know , Driving , Skill


I'll always understand the Schadenfreude aspect to short-selling. I get that no one will always like it. I'm also convinced to the deepest part of my bones that short-selling plays the role of real-time financial watchdog. It's one of the few checks and balances in the market.

Author: James Chanos - American Businessman
  Always , Will , Understand , Deepest


The interesting thing about the China story, getting back to the macro and micro, and as dire as I think the macro story is - due to bad credit and credit extension that makes Greece and Spain and the U.S. look like child's play - when you get to the micro of individual companies, they look even worse.

Author: James Chanos - American Businessman
  You , Look , Think , Child


Healthcare is growing now at about 10 per cent per annum in the U.S. top line, versus 3 per cent for the economy. As someone with a sharp pencil and an eye for this kind of thing, this can't last.

Author: James Chanos - American Businessman
  Eye , Someone , Healthcare , Pencil


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