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Carson Block On The Ethics Of Shortselling – 2018 Kase Learning Shorting Conference

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Jacob Wolinsky
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 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 done.  And I do think this is a...

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Jacob Wolinsky is the ex-Founder of Valuewalk.com (founded 2011, sold 2023). He is founder of HedgeFundAlpha (formerly ValueWalk Premium), a hedge fund focused intelligence service for institutional investors. Prior to founding Valuewalk, Jacob worked as an equity analyst covering small caps, a micro-cap analyst, doing member development a large hedge fund community and freelance financial writing. Jacob lives with his wife and five kids in Passaic NJ. - Email: jacob(at)hedgefundalpha.com. For confidential inquires email me for my Signal id. Other methods of secure communication are also available. FD: I almost exclusively avoid the purchase of equities to avoid conflict of interest and any insider information. I only purchase broad-based ETFs and mutual funds. I will disclsoe if I have a stake in any company, but in general avoid