While short sellers probably will never be popular on Wall Street, they often are the ones wearing the white hats when it comes to looking for and identifying the bad guys!

Chanos (born 1957) is an American hedge fund manager and is president and founder of Kynikos Associates a New York City investment company that is focused on short selling. He questioned the stability of Chinese economy stating that historically analogous evidence points especially to a housing bubble mentioning commercial real estate in particular. James S.

James S. Chanos (born 1957) is an American hedge fund manager and is president and founder of Kynikos Associates a New York City investment company that is focused on short selling.