For those of you who don’t know who Michael Burry is, he’s the guy who Christian Bale played in “The Big Short.” Michael Burry is an American hedge fund manager and the founder of Scion Asset Management. He first gained notoriety in the early 2000s for his bet against the subprime mortgage market, chronicled in the book The Big Short. In recent years, Burry has been making headlines for his predictions of an impending market crash. Is he a genius or a fraud? Let’s take a closer look.