Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China.

- James Chanos

Increasingly, the real estate developers can't get bank loans for their project financing in China. They're now going into the Hong Kong market to ra…

- James Chanos

What we define as a bubble is any kind of debt-fueled asset inflation where the cash flow generated by the asset itself - a rental property, office b…

- James Chanos

I used to think that good short-sellers could be trained like long-focused value investors because it should be the same skill set; you’re tearing in…

- James Chanos

I've seen a lot more go to zero than infinity.

- James Chanos

I call it the Rule of Three. If you read a company's financial statements three times, and you still can't figure out how they make their money, that…

- James Chanos

People who lose money always need someone to blame.

- James Chanos

The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos t…

- James Chanos

What American people and what the markets want is a fair and level playing-field, where the rules are clearly elucidated, where the referees are comp…

- James Chanos