Chanos says ‘torches and pitchforks are undervalued’ after allegation that hedge funds were privately briefed by White House about coronavirus early in 2020
October 15, 2020 at 16:21 PM EDT
Famed short seller Jim Chanos of Kynikos Associates is part of the 1% but even he is miffed about a report from the New York Times that alleges that the White House provided a different, more dire, set of briefings for a select number of hedge funds about the coronavirus, compared with what was said publicly about the illness in the early stages of 2020.