'The Big Short' Burry who bought Apple in 1998 has one dire regret
Yahoo Finance·2026-02-23 19:10

I became a Michael Burry fan the way most retail investors did, through The Big Short. Watching Christian Bale play the eccentric hedge fund manager who saw the housing collapse before Wall Street did turned Burry into a mythic figure. But I knew about him before Hollywood turned him into a character. In markets, Burry wasn’t just “the guy who shorted subprime.” He made his name betting against mortgage-backed securities in 2005 to 2007. But his career didn’t stop there. He bought Apple in 1998, and ag ...