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...Carson Block’s hedge fund Muddy Waters has revealed a bet against the New York-listed Blackstone Mortgage Trust, a $22bn real estate investment trust managed by private equity giant Blackstone....
...Carson had worked at Delta Air Lines, Microsoft and Apple. None had Walmart’s scale. “Right now,” he says, “we have the corporate world’s largest skilling ecosystem.”...
...Elizabeth Tabas Carson, a partner at Reed Smith, said selling companies have typically assisted private equity firms in raising deal financing, but at the very least may become less keen to do this....
...Short seller Carson Block, founder of Muddy Waters Capital, said he understood the reasons people choose to short Tesla, arguing that “in principle, they’re not wrong”....
...Fat margins and soaring share prices have attracted the attention of several foreign short-sellers, including Carson Block’s Muddy Waters. But the opposition has done little to damage share prices....
...Short seller Carson Block, founder of Muddy Waters Capital, says he understands the reasons people choose to bet against Tesla, arguing that “in principle, they’re not wrong” about the fundamentals not supporting...
...Veteran short seller Carson Block, founder of Muddy Waters Capital, said he understood the reasons people chose to short Tesla, arguing that “in principle, they’re not wrong”....
...Carson Block One factor that made the GameStop squeeze so profound was passive ownership. The distortion of prices caused by the growth of passive has only recently been fully understood....
...It is also hard to store for longer than two weeks because it has to be liquefied but then boils off, said Carson, adding: “The supply chain very quickly empties out.”...
...“You have an issue where you don’t have the distribution assets to bring them where they need to be,” said Christopher Carson, managing director....
...Carson Block, founder and head of Muddy Waters, says he is “surprised” at Luckin’s turnround: “In the old days, companies were finished once confirmed that they were frauds, especially to the extent of Luckin...
...Muddy Waters, the US short seller run by Carson Block, has launched a scathing attack on 2020’s hottest investment phenomenon, the special purpose acquisition company, and revealed it is betting against...
...Carson Block, founder of Muddy Waters, said YY Live was about “90 per cent fraudulent” and suggested Baidu was attempting to buy growth in the form of an “almost completely fake business”....
...That kind of windfall has led some, like the short-seller Carson Block, to label Spacs “the great 2020 money grab”....
...The US short seller run by Carson Block has called it a fraud, claiming the service has fake transactions and fake users, and uses bots (which act like human users)....
...Our resident capital markets expert Rob Smith’s memorable interview with short-seller Carson Block — watch it back here....
...Coming up: Join DD’s Robert Smith for a look back at some of the most high-profile accounting scandals in recent years with Carson Block, the short-seller behind Muddy Waters Research....
...Our next event: Join DD’s Robert Smith for a look back at some of the most high-profile accounting scandals in recent years with Carson Block, the short-seller behind Muddy Waters Research....
...Muddy Waters, namesake of a blues musician and run by short seller Carson Block, triumphed with two bets on Chinese companies where it alleged frauds....
...However, questions over its accounting surfaced in January when US short seller Muddy Waters, run by Carson Block, made public an anonymous report pointing to possible fraudulent behaviour at the company...
...Canaan’s other listed sales agent, Matthew Carson, works for the same company, according to his LinkedIn profile. Cryptoland: it’s all so cosy....
...The most prominent of these was brash US short-seller Carson Block, who told the FT that the AMF’s market manipulation probe into his fund Muddy Waters, was “tainted by bias”....
...American Media Inc, the tabloid company that publishes the National Enquirer, has reached an agreement with the US justice department enabling it to avoid prosecution for paying off a woman to prevent her...
...Corporate intelligence types have also been set on critics such as shortsellers, for instance when Carson Block met a man masquerading as a journalist....
...As chief executive of American Media Inc, the 65-year-old Bronx native dominated the US tabloid world, blasting headlines that took aim at the likes of John Edwards, Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton — and catching...
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