Michael Burry

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Michael Burry is an American investor and physician best known for being among the first to short the subprime mortgage market ahead of the 2008 financial crisis, depicted in The Big Short. He founded and ran the hedge fund Scion Capital and later Scion Asset Management, which he deregistered in late 2025.

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