Short-seller Carson Block: a fugitive CEO, Libyan spies, and $50B fraud
About this episode
Carson Block discusses his experiences with Muddy Waters Research and the challenges of exposing corporate fraud.
Carson Block is the founder of Muddy Waters Research, one of the defining activist short-selling firms of the last decade and a half. Since 2010, Muddy Waters has published forensic research exposing accounting fraud at publicly traded companies across China, Europe, and the US and has been right enough times that 11 companies have been delisted as a result. In this episode of Summation, Carson and Auren discuss: why outright fraud is only 20-25% of Muddy Waters' focusthe Wirecard sagaw...
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