Michael Burry, the investor whose successful bets against the US housing market in 2008 were recounted in the movie “The Big Short,” is closing his hedge fund, Scion Asset Management. In a letter to ...

Burry is best known for predicting and profiting from the collapse of the mid-2000s US housing bubble. His massive, contrarian wager was immortalized in the book "The Big Short" and a movie adaptation ...

Michael Burry, the contrarian investor who pegged the implosion of the 2007-2009 U.S. housing market, a strategy made famous by the 2015 film “The Big Short,” is making news again in late 2025. Burry ...

Michael Burry is an investor who isn’t afraid to take a long position, even when it appears to be contrarian to the rest of ...