Kyle Bass was convinced the booming housing market was really one big house of cards and began to find ways to profit from it. He invested in "credit protection," a kind of insurance on various mortgage-backed securities. As those securities declined in value, his insurance paid off.
Kyle Bass' hedge fund made more than a billion dollars in profit.
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