James Chanos and Leon Cooperman at the 2019 Delivering Alpa conference in New York on Sept. 19. 2019.Short-seller Jim Chanos said the belief that the Federal Reserve will always rescue the stock market from steep losses is reckless for investors.
"The idea of a Fed put and that the Fed is always going to be there to bail out my bad investment decisions is really not cogent investment policy to hold onto for a long time," Chanos said on CNBC's "Halftime Report" on Monday. "The fact that it will bail out the stock market at some pre-determined level of losses... I think it's a very dangerous idea to uphold," he added.
The market sell-off accelerated Monday, with the Dow dropping as much as 1,100 points, as investors braced for a potential hawkish tilt from the Federal Reserve this week. The S&P 500 also dipped into correction territory,The Fed will wrap up its policy meeting on Wednesday. Central bankers have indicated that they expect not only to raise rates and taper asset purchases soon — but also could be teeing up a balance sheet reduction.
oh cool. so we're going higher wednesday. Thanks
Dangerous indeed. But most younger investors haven’t touched the hot stove yet. We learn through our life’s experiences and tend to learn more from the bad ones. They will learn or perish
“Short-seller says…”. Yeah no thanks.