Carson Block: 'China’s massive bubble'

Carson Block, famed for his prowess in shorting struggling stocks, sees trouble ahead for China.

Short-seller Carson Block has gained fame as "an alarm bell for investors in Chinese companies", as The Economist puts it. Block, 36, set up a Shanghai storage company and co-wrote Doing Business in China for Dummies before founding Muddy Waters Research in 2010.

The group's detailed research on apparent financial irregularities at US-listed Chinese firms is credited with wiping around $7bn off the value of the eight stocks it targeted as strong sells', and prompting formal investigations by regulators.

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