Whitney Tilson
Whitney Tilson
Whitney Tilsonis an American investor, author, and philanthropist. Tilson manages the hedge fund Kase Capital. Tilson co-authored the books, The Art of Value Investing: How the World's Best Investors Beat the Marketand More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times, has written for Forbes, the Financial Times, Kiplinger’s, The Motley Fool and TheStreet.com, and was one of the authors of Poor Charlie's Almanack. He is a CNBC contributor, was featured in a 60 Minutes segment in December...
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