Carson Block is an American short-seller who rose to fame in 2011 after shorting Sino-Forest, a forestry firm that was felled amid a fraud scandal. In addition to short bets, he now runs quantitative and long-only funds.
America's Department of Justice conducted a wide-ranging criminal investigation on short-selling in 2021. Block's firm was served with search warrants and subpoenas—a move he described as "a really large, cold glass of water in the face" that forced him to consider other business lines.
Death was Nature's way of telling you to slow down.