If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not.

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.