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Vital Signs: All this overinflated talk about an index-fund bubble is very passive-aggressive

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW
Vital Signs: All this overinflated talk about an index-fund bubble is very passive-aggressiveChristian Bale plays quirky hedge fund Michael Burry in The Big Short (2015).www.imdb.com

If you’ve seen the movie The Big Short you will remember Christian Bale’s quirky character Michael Burry – the manager of the Scion Capital hedge fund who realises the US mortgage-backed security market is a massive bubble. He goes on to make...

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