‘The Big Short’ investor Michael Burry places a bet on electric motorcycles

Michael Burry attends the "The Big Short" New York premiere at Ziegfeld Theater on November 23, 2015 in New York City.
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Michael Burry, one of the first investors to call and profit from the subprime mortgage crisis, is betting on an electric motorcycle company that's going public via a SPAC deal.