Neely, Megan Tobias - In: Economic sociology : perspectives and conversations 25 (2024) 3, pp. 14-21
Hedge funds have a track record of profiting on stock market crashes and sociopolitical crises. In 2008, hedge fund managers made billions betting that the US housing bubble would burst (Lewis 2011). Despite the fact that hedge funds contributed to bringing about the crisis (Lysandrou 2011) and...