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Short Squeezes and Reckless Leverage

Marc Cohodes of Alder Lane Farm pulls no punches as he diagnoses the true culprits behind the exponential volatility in stocks such as GameStop: extreme leverage and the hedge funds who use it in order to juice returns. Cohodes argues that hedge funds like Point72 and Melvin Capital are creating significant systemic risk for all market participants.

By Real Vision | February 10, 2021 | 3:57 am

Killer Charts December 2020 – January 2021

We looked across financial markets to bring you a compilation of the wildest happenings during December 2020 & the first half of January 2021.

By Real Vision | January 19, 2021 | 5:23 pm

Investing in one of the best-performing stock markets

A fund centered on Iranian equities may seem frivolous to some. Who wants to invest in a country that has been devastated by sanctions for decades and cut off from the rest of the global?

By Haley Draznin | January 15, 2021 | 3:00 pm

Why Bitcoin? Why Now?

Lyn Alden and Travis Kling examine the current factors influencing Bitcoin’s price and adoption. How is Bitcoin correlated to the Federal Reserve’s actions and why may prices keep going up?

By Real Vision | December 1, 2020 | 2:52 am

The Exchange: Feature Updates

Check out a couple new exciting feature announcements on the Real Vision Exchange.

By admin | November 25, 2020 | 8:21 pm

Investing in Iraq: Perception vs. Reality

Despite decades of geopolitical turbulence, investors have long-eyed frontier markets like Iraq for high growth value investing.

By Haley Draznin | November 25, 2020 | 2:43 pm

Regression of American Exceptionalism

Jeremy Grantham looks at the regression in the U.S. among the rest of the world, where we are lagging in the need to green the economy and why venture capital is an area to look for growth.

By Real Vision | November 24, 2020 | 4:55 pm

Billionaire tech investor Chamath Palihapitiya and the return of centrism

An inside glimpse of the seismic forces that are radically transforming the investment landscape — from SPACs and tokenization to data autonomy and virtual learning

By Haley Draznin | November 20, 2020 | 2:30 pm

Short Selling In Slow Motion

Jim Chanos explains why we are in a golden age of fraud where the market fails to recognize frauds until the last minute. He also explains how he shorts a stock and which ones he is looking at.

By Real Vision | November 17, 2020 | 3:51 am

The Perfect Storm For Cannabis Stocks

Todd Harrison outlines his bullish case for cannabis, lists his favorite names, & discusses other tangential opportunities & diversification options.

By Real Vision | November 16, 2020 | 2:05 pm

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