Retail investors have typically hated short-sellers. Michael Burry's bets against Palantir and Nvidia have seemingly never made him more popular.

Michael Burry's short of the U.S housing market is depicted in the 2015 film, The Big Short, along with the 2010 novel written by Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. This is how Burry came to be known as Wall Street's "Big Short" investor.

Investor Michael Burry sought to clarify certain misconceptions about his latest options bet against Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: PLTR), after details of the position were widely misinterpreted in media reports.

Nearly two decades after he became a Wall Street legend for predicting the 2008 housing crash, investor Michael Burry once again came out of the shadows with his bold bets against AI darlings Nvidia ( NVDA) and Palantir ( PLTR ).

Extraordinarily dedicated FT Alphaville fans will recognise Phil Clifton (who Burry calls “a tremendous young talent in the field of investment — and the most prodigious thinker I have ever encountered”) as…

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