John Paulson, Source: facebook In 2006, the housing market was the "Invincible Giant" of the global economy. To bet against it was considered financial suicide. Yet, John Paulson and his analyst Paulo Pellegrini saw a "simple physics …
Senate Democrats, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons In early 2020, as a mysterious virus began spreading globally, Bill Ackman, the founder of Pershing Square, noticed a massive discrepancy. The equity markets were hitting all-time highs, yet the cr…