Contrarian Pundit

CONTRARIAN OF THE WEEK:

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Michael Burry of Cupertino, head of now-defunct Scion Capital, former neurologist, Asperger’s sufferer, owner of a glass eye, hero of Michael Lewis’s The Big Short for being one of the handful of people so confident in the imminent meltdown of the housing market that he was willing to [...]

CONTRARIAN OF THE WEEK:

Jeremy Scahill, award-winning journalist and bane of Blackwater Xe …
… for claiming the second annual Izzy Award, named after the heroic muckraker I.F. Stone, for outstanding achievement in independent journalism.
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I would define an independent journalist as someone that’s totally un-embedded when it comes to their relationship with the powerful. In other words, [...]

CONTRARIAN OF THE WEEK:

Walter E. Hussman, Jr., owner of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette …
For believing that dumping staff, degrading product, and then dishing it out free online isn’t necessarily the best way to run a newspaper.
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“People started coming up to me saying, ‘I really appreciate you putting up that content for free. I don’t [...]