Michael Burry asked Washington one question in the New York Times - two weeks later the government came after him he was a Stanford neurology resident posting stock picks at night - quit medicine in 2000 to run money he read the actual mortgage documents nobody on Wall Street bothered to read - and saw the crash coming in 2005 his investors revolted - demanded their money back - he locked the fund and held the bet the bet paid $700 million for his investors and $100 million for himself - his fund returned 489% while the S&P went nowhere in 2010 he asked publicly: why didn't anyone in Washington listen to those who predicted the crisis? "within two weeks, all six of my defunct funds were audited... and a little later, the FBI showed up" then he stood in front of UCLA's economics graduates and told the whole story 21-min - free. watch it bookmark and watch it today
