Drobny Calls Chanos ‘The Forrest Gump Of Financial Disasters’

Drobny Capital founder Steven Drobny has released the second chapter of his upcoming book The New House of Money as a free download, and this time he is interviewing legendary short seller and Kynikos Associates founder Jim Chanos, covering everything from how he first learned to embrace shorting to where he sees the best short opportunities in today’s economy. Drobny calls it the ‘definitive’ Chanos interview, and he doesn’t disappoint.

Chanos’s biggest professional miss

Chanos tells Drobny that the first stock he analyzed in depth was Baldwin-United Corporation, a piano company morphed into a financial services firm that was using insurance payments and bank debt to fund...