Joe Weisenthal

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Yeah, no, it's pretty like I totally agree with you about short sellers.

I mean, I think like when you look at the broad history of markets or particularly, you know, U.S.

markets over the last several decades, they basically go up and there's a lot of money to be made by just like, you know.

betting on the line go up.

So I think you have to have like a sort of distinct personality type to think, oh, maybe there is some other interesting way to make money in this market besides betting on stocks going up.

But it's an important service because one, you know, as they will say, and I think there's probably something to it, shorting helps provide like price discovery.

You can't just have everyone long.

But then there's like another layer that I think is very important.

And this is the maybe connection to journalism.

They often do a lot of work.

Right.

They often have to do a lot of sort of what in a very slightly adjacent field, what might be like considered investigative journalism.

Yeah, that's right.

And in addition to talking about this sort of the life of a short seller, what it's like being a short seller, we also sort of learned some new news, which is that she is getting interested in the Korean market.

How would you describe Safgut Capital?