- cross-posted to:
- news@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- news@lemmy.world
In a letter to investors dated October 27, a copy of which was seen by Reuters, Burry said he would liquidate the funds and return capital, “but for a small audit/tax holdback” by the end of the year. A person directly familiar with the matter confirmed the contents of the letter.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Burry said, “On to much better things Nov 25th.” Scion Asset Management did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Burry has stepped up criticism of technology heavyweights, including Nvidia (NVDA.O) , opens new tab and Palantir Technologies , in recent weeks, questioning the cloud infrastructure boom and accusing major providers of using aggressive accounting to inflate profits from their massive hardware investments.
Burry has argued that as companies such as Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab, Alphabet-owned Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab, Oracle (ORCL.N), opens new tab and Meta (META.O) , opens new tab pour billions into Nvidia chips and servers, they are also quietly stretching out depreciation schedules to make earnings look smoother. Between 2026 and 2028, those accounting choices could understate depreciation by about $176 billion, inflating reported profits across the sector, he estimated. AI-related stocks have accounted for 75% of the S&P 500 index’s (.SPX) , opens new tab returns since November 2022, when OpenAI launched ChatGPT, JPMorgan Asset Management wrote in September.
Opens new tab.
Kind of nice of them to put that in the alt text for the link for a tool tip, though it wasn’t helpful here.
The SEC was always a bit of a joke, but under Trump, there is zero enforcement of accounting rules and everybody knows it. Agressive Accounting, formerly known as fraud is now known as business. (Pronounced bid-ness)
I mean, it’s kinda been the standard since Regan legalized stock buybacks.
And Clinton removing the Glass-Steagall provisions…
It was no different under Biden or Obama. SEC always had a revolving door with Corps, same as the FDA.
I don’t think he’s giving up. I just think he does not want to file a 13F any more.
I’m not knowledgeable enough about this stuff. Is he basically saying he can’t play the game if the rules themselves are no longer being followed?
It looks to me like he’s retiring, happy and rich.



