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Podcast: The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing
Episode: Jim Chanos & Bethany McLean on Lessons from Enron, Financial Fraud Throughout History, and the Fall of FTX, SVB & Wirecard | #479
Description: Today’s guests are Jim Chanos, famed short-seller and founder of Kynikos Associates, and Bethany McLean, contributing editor at Vanity Fair and the author of multiple books, including The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron.In today’s episode, Jim & Bethany cover all aspects of fraud. They share where we are in both the financial cycle and the fraud cycle, why we continue to see frauds since they first connected about Enron over 20 years ago, and the thin line between a visionary and a fraudster. We discuss the anti-short seller rheto...