Claims

Factual · Their own work or organisation

“I put my thoughts about stocks and markets up on a web site I was running during the latter half of the 90s.”

Michael Burry, lecture speaker · 5 April 2011 · Transcript of Michael Burry's talk, Missteps to Mayhem (Vanderbilt News)

Burry ran a website during the latter half of the 1990s on which he posted his thoughts about stocks and markets.

Mostly true True in substance, wrong in a detail.

The second judge would not resolve this claim; the verdict shown is the first judge's.

What would count as true or false

True: archived web pages, The Big Short, or news profiles show that Burry ran a website or message board (e.g. on Silicon Investor or his own site) in roughly 1996-1999 where he posted his investing views on stocks and markets. Mostly true: confirmed, but the timing is slightly off (e.g. it began in 1995 or ran into 2000), or it was a forum section rather than his own site. Mixed: he posted investing views online in that period, but did not run the venue himself, in a material way. Mostly false: the online activity was substantially later or different in nature. False: the evidence shows no such website or posting.

Evidence

1. Betting on the Blind Side Vanity Fair · 1 April 2010

   “Once he figured out he had nothing more to learn from the crowd on his thread, he quit it to create what later would be called a blog but at the time was just a weird form of communication.”

2. Betting on the Blind Side Vanity Fair · 1 April 2010

   “On his blog he posted his stock-market trades and his arguments for making the trades.”

3. Mike Burry’s Silicon Investor “Value Investing” thread Greenbackd · 3 March 2010

   “Michael Burry’s blog, http://www.valuestocks.net, seems to be lost to the sands of time, but Burry’s techstocks.com “Value Investing” thread (now Silicon Investor) still exists.”

4. Burry Waterboy Stocks (Substack) · 16 November 2025

   “Burry joined the site on April 21st, 1996, and last posted on January 21, 2001, with a total of 3,277 posts.”

Reasoning

Michael Lewis's Vanity Fair excerpt says Burry left his message-board thread to start what would later be called a blog, and that he posted his stock trades and his reasons for them there (E1, E2). Greenbackd names that blog as valuestocks.net and says Burry's "Value Investing" thread on techstocks.com, later Silicon Investor, still exists (E3). A later write-up dates his Silicon Investor posting from April 1996 to January 2001 (E4). None of the quoted sources gives the blog's own dates, so placing it in the late 1990s rests on the thread's dates, and the forum activity ran into 2001. That is why this is mostly true rather than true.

Cite this claim

Michael Burry, “Burry ran a website during the latter half of the 1990s on which he posted his thoughts about stocks and markets.” (said 5 April 2011). Verdict: mostly true. Reliability API, claim c_92ba6cbd8231, method 0.1.0+c876030c. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_92ba6cbd8231