evil shortseller

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One "great" thing about history and markets is that once you have seen it all, you see something new.
I came into the markets as a fed funds trader at the largest clearing bank in the world and "progressed" through some of the most prestigious and sleaziest investment disciplines and Wall Street firms. This path of cynical and technical expertise set me up nicely to catch the mortgage-related crash co-managing a financials hedge fund.
Currently, I am sitting out the institutional investment business because I think the game is rigged in a way it has never been before. And as my name suggests, that has been a good decision.
I was taught 35 years ago - in the days of Volcker and reserves targeting - "don't fight the Fed". To paraphrase so many rockers, in 2009" I fought the Fed and the Fed won". So since 2011, the Evil Shortseller is on sebbatical.
Remember, when success is defined in a currency that is defined, supplied, and named by and for the Fed, you fight the Fed at your own risk.

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