{"id":69223,"date":"2019-05-12T00:20:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T04:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=69223"},"modified":"2019-05-14T02:05:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T06:05:36","slug":"a-short-seller-bets-it-all-on-a-spectacular-market-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2019\/a-short-seller-bets-it-all-on-a-spectacular-market-crash.html","title":{"rendered":"A Short Seller Bets It All on a Spectacular Market Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) Horseman Capital\u2019s Russell Clark has been bearish for more than seven years. And if he\u2019s wrong? \u201cThis could be my farewell interview,\u201d he says. Russell Clark\u2019s entry into the high-stakes world of investing could hardly have been less promising. As a graduate trainee at UBS Group AG in Sydney, he was wowed by friends getting rich by day-trading tech stocks in 2000. So he spent his first few paychecks on five dot-com shares. Four crashed to zero, and the fifth lost half its value as the tech bubble burst.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-05-10\/a-short-seller-bets-it-all-on-a-spectacular-market-crash\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Horseman Capital\u2019s Russell Clark has been bearish for more than seven years. And if he\u2019s wrong? \u201cThis could be my farewell interview,\u201d he says. Russell Clark\u2019s entry into the high-stakes world of investing could hardly have been less promising. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69224,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69223\/revisions\/69224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}