27 October 2022
Two weeks ago, the NYT mocked “amateur investors” for piling up in a historic, “meme” short bet against the troubled Swiss bank Credit Suisse, which it argued was nowhere near as distressed as rumors suggested and when discussing the violent plunge in the stock price said that “the timing puzzled the bank’s analysts, major investors and risk managers. Credit Suisse had longstanding problems, but no sudden crisis or looming bankruptcy.”