James Chanos Discusses Investment and Other Things

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Dec 10, 2010
James Chanos, President/Founder Kynikos Associates, manages $6.7 billion. He is at CNBC today discussing investment from a short seller point of view.

His single biggest idea involving shorting China:



In this segment, Chanos discusses “technology driven deflation” trend in the Cable Industry. One sector Chanos thinks that will come out at the end as a winner is content owners such as Comcast (CMCSA). The guys in between the content owner and consumers are in trouble.

























Chanos participated in the discussion of the payoff of the Wall Street bailout by the federal government. Alan Greenberg, former Bear Stearns CEO/JP Morgan vice chairman is the featured guest here.



Chanos discusses the a few odds and bits of running a short-oriented fund:

























Chanos: High-Eng Art market is back. The wealthy is doing very well.