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Looks like investor Bill Ackman, famous for shorting the housing market before the bubble burst, had the same theory back in 2016. It's an interesting perspecti

• airstrike 8y ago
  > famous for shorting the housing market before the bubble burst Also famous for losing more than $3 billion (or $7.7 million per day) on Valeant http://fortune.com/2017/03/15/valeant-stock-bill-ackman/ http://fortune.com/2017/03/15/valeant-stock-bill-ackman/
  • camjohnson26 8y ago
    Famous for taking big risks that sometimes pay out and sometimes fail dramatically.
    • asdfasgasdgasdg 8y ago
      Taking big risks is only laudable if you win. https://assets.pershingsquareholdings.com/media/2014/09/17123349/Pershing-Square-1Q18-Investor-Letter-PSH.pdf https://assets.pershingsquareholdings.com/media/2014/09/1712... Oof. Up 1% over a time period where the S&P is up 118%. Brutal.
      • camjohnson26 8y ago
        Active funds generally underperform during periods of economic growth and we're in the longest running bull market of all time right now. Ackman makes mistakes but he is still very insightful and backs his opinions with dollars. No one who deals with risk is going to have a perfect track record, and even though his Valeant and Herbalife bets didn't pay off the opportunities/flaws he saw were real, other factors just happened to be more important such as Icahn propping up the price of Herbalife and Valeant's accounting problems.