Post Tagged with: "Jim Chanos"
Jim Chanos on China, Hong Kong and Australia
Famous shortseller Jim Chanos was in Hong Kong and Australia and reported back on what he saw to Bloomberg Television. Copy provided below including a link to the video
Chanos and Gross versus Paulson and Bloomberg
Here’s Jim Chanos on the demonstrations on Wall Street which express the anti-bailout sentiments expressed by both the Tea Party and #OccupyWallStreet. Bill Gross, Vikram Pandit, John Paulson and Michael Bloomberg all chimed in too
Jim Chanos: China has tons of contingent debt via state-owned enterprises
The overall gist of Jim Chanos’ comments on Bloomberg yesterday were that China has off-balance sheet contingent liabilities due to its implicit commitment to state-owned enterprises which are kneee-deep in land and property speculation. See Michael Pettis piece on The debt-financed investments of Chinese state-owned enterprises for a comprehensive analysis of this problem
Jim Chanos: Still short
Shortseller Jim Chanos was on CNBC talking about the markets and the economy. The gist of his comments was that there still isn’t a lot he would go long on. He did say he is long casinos in China but in general he remains short.
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Jim Chanos makes the bearish case on China
Fortune recently did a story on Jim Chanos called "Chanos vs. China" which warrants reading. Below is the associated video in which you can hear Chanos making the bearish case for China. Chanos is the most unapologetic and aggressive of the well-known bears about his case. For example, Andy Xie seems to have backpedalled somewhat
Xie: China’s housing market is “not crashing like I expected”
I don’t know exactly what to make of Andy Xie’s quote near the end of this first CNBC video below. He says "It’s not crashing like I expected in 2012," referring to the Chinese housing market. Is Xie saying: A. The crash is not going to happen yet. Wait until 2012. Or is he saying
Jim Chanos: “We are really rewarding failed business decisions repeatedly”
Jim Chanos, the famous shortseller, was on CNBC talking about the auto bailouts. Chanos thinks the story the administration is telling us about the success of the bailouts is misleading. Note the figures that Chanos cites on the return on the government’s bailout investment in the automakers. The government is playing fast and loose here
Chanos, Roach Discuss Outlook for China’s Economy
Another classic from Bloomberg News. It runs about 22 minutes. I love Roach’s quip in jest to Chanos: "You ignorant slut." That quip in jest belies the congruence in Roach and Chanos’ views. Roach does say: "I’m not denying there’s not a bubble." He just feels the bubble will not lead to the kinds of
Chanos: Where are the perp walks?
The New York Observer has a wonderful interview with Jim Chanos out today. In it, he talks about probable fraud and criminality at Lehman. I want to use his comments as a lead-in to a wider discussion about fraud and criminality in financial services. The Chanos interview reads: The Observer: Did anything surprise you about
Wood: “The endgame will be a systemic government debt crisis in the western world”
Christopher Wood is bearish on Western stocks but still bullish on emerging Asia, especially India and China. He recommends an overweight Asia – Underweight West position for international investors in large part because he believes the inflationary signs in Asia are a sign of renewed strong economic growth there. On the other hand, in his
More from Chanos on the Chinese property bubble
Given my post on Jim Rogers’ doubting Chanos’ knowledge about China, I thought it appropriate to post the latest Chanos interview on the China property bubble. This call by Chanos is really setting us up for some seriously entrenched camps of pro-China bulls (like Rogers)against China sceptics (like Chanos, but also like Andy Xie). Is
Rogers: Chanos “couldn’t spell China 10 years ago”
No he didn’t. Jim Rogers, the bow-tie wearing Quantum Fund co-founder and Sino-enthusiast, has recently implied Jim Chanos doesn’t know China from a hole in the ground. Rogers is not happy about the recent bearish pronouncements coming from Enron-slayer and famed short-seller Jim Chanos. In what looks to be a rumble in the jungle of