Yale Alum And Short-Selling Icon Jim Chanos Teaches Next Generation Of Fraud-Finders
In 2001, American investment manager Jim Chanos detected several red flags in the corporate accounting practices of Enron, then one of the largest energy and commodities companies in the United States. Chanos used his keen eye for corporate catastrophe to place a large bet against Enron, short selling the company’s stock as it was on the precipice of collapse…