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<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0NEW!<\/em> <\/strong><\/span>DOWNLOAD THIS EPISODE’S AI GENERATED SHOW NOTES (Guest <\/strong><\/em>Segment<\/strong><\/em>)<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mr. Block appears frequently as a commentator on Bloomberg Television, CNBC and the BBC. He has written op-eds in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and New York Times on various topics related to improving corporate governance and market transparency.\u00a0\u00a0Prior to forming Muddy Waters, Mr. Block was an entrepreneur in China and worked as a lawyer in the Shanghai office of the U.S. law firm Jones Day. In 2007, he co-authored\u00a0Doing Business in China for Dummies<\/u>, a primer on doing business in China.\u00a0 He holds a B.S. in business from the University of Southern California and a J.D. from the Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he has also served as an adjunct professor.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Carson Block is the Chief Investment Officer of Muddy Waters Capital LLC<\/a><\/strong>, an activist investment firm.\u00a0 Muddy Waters conducts extensive due diligence based investment research on companies around the globe. Mr. Block is also the founder of Zer0es TV (www.zer0es.tv<\/a>), an online channel dedicated to short selling related video content. Bloomberg Markets Magazine named Mr. Block as one of the \u201c50 Most Influential in Global Finance\u201d in 2011.\u00a0 The following year, Muddy Waters received the prestigious Boldness in Business Award from the Financial Times. In September 2015, Mr. Block was featured in the book,\u00a0The Most Dangerous Trade: How Short Sellers Uncover Fraud, Keep Markets Honest, and Make and Lose Billions, by former Bloomberg writer Richard Teitelbaum<\/u>.\u00a0He is also featured in the 2018 documentary\u00a0The China Hustle<\/u>.<\/p>\n