The investor who famously predicted the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis has issued a chilling new warning, claiming the US stock market is now a 'fragile' coiled spring nearing a violent breaking point.
Michael Burry, whose contrarian bets were immortalised in The Big Short, detailed a grim thesis on his Substack on 13 March 2026, citing a dangerous convergence of passive investing bubbles, demographic shifts, and a sudden retreat in corporate share buybacks.
