Michael Burry’s early life. Burry was born and raised in San Jose, California. He faced a significant life challenge at the age of 2, when he was diagnosed with retinoblastoma, leading to the ...

Michael Burry is a hedge fund manager renowned for founding Scion Capital and predicting the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis. His foresight, detailed in Michael Lewis’s The Big Short, which was ...

Take Michael Burry, whose early bet on the 2007-08 housing bust made him rich and famous, thanks partly to the movie based on Michael Lewis’s “The Big Short”.; ...

Michael Burry, the “Big Short” investor who became famous for correctly predicting the epic collapse of the housing market in 2008, has bet more than $1.6 billion on a Wall Street crash.

In that regard, Burry’s BKNG short may be a short-term hedge against any downbeat economic or travel-sector news in early 2024 that could impact reservations.