Jim Chanos has been cast as the “Darth Vader of Wall Street”, the “Catastrophe Capitalist” and the “LeBron James of short selling”. The 62-year-old titan of the $3.2tn global hedge fund industry predicted the downfall of US energy giant Enron almost two decades ago, making a fortune in the process. But the course of true riches, it seems, never did run smooth. On the day of our encounter, Tesla, which Chanos has bet against for the past five years, overtakes Toyota as the most valuable carmaker in the world, leaving him nursing heavy losses. But more about that later.
吉姆?查諾斯(Jim Chanos)一直被譽為“華爾街的達斯?維德(Darth Vader)”、“災難資本家”和“賣空界的勒布朗?詹姆斯(LeBron James)”?，F年62歲的他，是規模達到3.2萬億美元的全球對沖基金業中的巨頭，在近20年前就預言了美國能源巨頭安然(Enron)的垮臺，并在此過程中大賺了一筆。但真正致富的道路似乎從來都不是一帆風順的。在我們見面那天，特斯拉(Tesla)——過去5年間查諾斯一直在做空這家公司——超越豐田(Toyota)成為了全球市值最高的汽車制造商，這使得查諾斯損失慘重。但這件事我們稍后再談。