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Deal Breaker’s John Carney interviewed Kynikos Associates’ Jim Chanos about Steve Roman’s Midas Oracle blog post.

And I have just discovered it five minutes ago, by total chance.
#1. Kynikos Associates’ Jim Chanos did not respond to my e-mail at the time.
#2. Nobody from Deal Breaker tipped me about this follow-up story.
#3. The Deal Breaker’s follow-up story did not mention “Midas Oracle” or “Steve Roman”.
#4. The Deal Breaker’s follow-up story did not [...]

The Plan To Take the Online Gaming Market – US Gaming Firms Tale of Shame

1. Pass legislation to get rid of foreign competition – The US Casinos had fallen so far behind the competition at this point that they didn’t have a chance of winning on merit. No matter – Senators are cheap. Although the majority of Americans disagreed with its contents, the bill was snuck through by Bill [...]

Insight or Connection – How Kynikos Associates Profited from the Gaming Bill

The FT has an excellent article about short seller James Chanos predicting and profiting from the gaming bill.
His hedge fund, Kynikos Associates, had put a large slice of its $3bn in assets on a bold punt that shares in the internet gambling sector were about to go into free-fall.
And on October 2, shares in the [...]

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