Carson Block, Chief Investment Officer of Muddy Waters Capital from the 2018 Kase Learning Shorting Conference. Q3 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc Morning, thanks for having me here. That’s not a typo, I’m talking about activism short selling versus activist. What is that? I think that activists can occasionally take short selling to what I would say is another level. And that we can short a stock for reasons that have purely to do with the immorality of the company. And that hasn’t been expressly done before. But I think it can be done and I think it should be…
Carson Block On The Ethics Of Shortselling – 2018 Kase Learning Shorting Conference
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