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off handsomely if dramatic but unexpected
changes occurred in the market.
It was not an investment strategy so
much as a life philosophy—a belief that
most situations were not as stable as
they appeared to be.
This “suited the two men’s personalities,”
writes Lewis. “They never had to
be sure of anything. Both were predisposed
to feel that people, and by extension
markets, were too certain about inherently
uncertain things.” Even after
being proven right with their 2006 and
2007 bets against the subprime mortgage
market, and earning $100 million
in the process, “they actually spent
time wondering how people who had
been so sensationally right (i.e., they
themselves) could preserve the capacity
for diffidence and doubt and uncertainty
that had enabled them to be
right.”
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