By Steve Goldstein
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The fund manager who bet against U.S. mortgages before the 2008 crisis and recognized the deep value in GameStop sold out his stake entirely before the wild rally in the videogames retailer. That, and Warren Buffett’s latest moves, were among the revelations of Tuesday night’s wave of 13-F filings at the Securities and Exchange Commission. More on that in a second.
GameStop is now the poster child for what are called “stonks,” the seemingly one-way-only ascent in often hopeless equities. Vincent Deluard, director of global macro at StoneX, expects the madness to continue. “On the one hand, the market is obscenely overpriced and I am certain that stocks will deliver negative real returns in the next decade. On the other hand, the underlying drivers of the bubble are unlikely to go away in the next months: easy-money and financial repression are here to stay,” he says.