May 5, 2023

‘One of the Greatest Decisions in My Life’: Short Seller Closed Fund Before Fed’s Monetary ‘Bazooka’

After a decade in the securities business, Bill Fleckenstein began to see the writing on the wall at 2051 Constitution Avenue in the mid-1990s. At about that time, the Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building—at the time occupied by ...