ClaimsMichael Burry

“I fully expect it will recover and ultimately head much higher over time.”

Michael Burry, Scion fund manager, in fund letter 2001 Scion Funds annual letters compilation (investorkurs.no)

Prediction Their own work or organisation

A rarely traded publicly traded real estate stock held by the Fund will recover and ultimately head much higher over time.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Prediction: Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?

Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.

Reasoning

Holding unnamed and recovery has no defined horizon.

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Michael Burry, “A rarely traded publicly traded real estate stock held by the Fund will recover and ultimately head much higher over time.” (said 2001). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_ba32d3cf9937, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_ba32d3cf9937

This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.

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  2. Resolved true Prediction 5 April 2011
    “Today, I expect the US government to attempt to continue easy money policies into the next presidential term”

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  3. Mixed Prediction 2008
    “I imagine the shares of these companies, in most cases, will become very boring before they become attractive again.”

    Burry said he imagined that shares of most of these financial companies would become very boring before they became attractive again.

  4. Mostly true Prediction 2008
    “Less leverage and lower returns on assets are now in the cards.”

    Less leverage and lower returns on assets are now likely for financial institutions.

  5. Resolved true Prediction 2007
    “The S&P 500 could easily finish the year in the negative, dragging many investment funds – too many of which are crowded into the same “value-but-for-a-dire-economy” trades – down with it.”

    The S&P 500 could easily finish 2008 with a negative return, dragging down crowded value-oriented investment funds.

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