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Enron Short Seller Jim Chanos Sees a '1999-Type Moment' in AI Boom, Includes SPCX, TSLA in His Shorts

Jul 31, 2026 · 10:35 AM ET· updated 3h ago
Enron Short Seller Jim Chanos Sees a '1999-Type Moment' in AI Boom, Includes SPCX, TSLA in His Shorts

Jim Chanos made his name calling Enron before it collapsed. Now the veteran short seller says we’re “closer to a ’99-type moment than a ’97,” meaning the year before the dot-com crash, not the one where the party

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A famous investor who caught Enron's fraud thinks some AI companies might be overpriced right now, like how tech stocks got too expensive before a big crash in 2000. When smart investors worry about prices being too high, it's worth noticing—even though nobody knows what happens next.

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