The King of Short Selling

He spent his final days at Hastings Rowe finishing tasks nobody else wanted. One was a data cleanup for a client presentation on specialty finance companies. The senior analyst had misclassified securitized receivables as ordinary debt in a chart comparing leverage ratios. It made one lender, Cobalt Consumer Credit, look safer than it was. Ethan corrected it, added a footnote, and sent the deck. Ten minutes later Trevor appeared at his desk with the expression of a man who had found a live wire in his sandwich. "Did you change slide twenty-seven?" "The leverage calculation was wrong." "The client already saw the old version." "Then the client saw the wrong version." "The client is Marcus Black."