John Paulson, a New York-based hedge fund manager who made his name shorting the housing market in 2007 and 2008, has been making headlines lately for another reason: He’s betting against the U.S. dollar. Most recently, by buying gold futures contracts on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME).

John Paulson was born in 1968 to a family of doctors who owned their practice in Westchester County, N.Y. John Paulson studied economics at Harvard University before joining Goldman Sachs in 1993. In 1998 he founded his firm, Paulson & Co., which was later renamed Paulson Investment Management. He is also an investor in Apple Inc. Google Inc. and Facebook Inc.

Paulson is one of the most successful investors on Wall Street. In 2006, he was named by Institutional Investor magazine as one of the top 25 hedge fund managers in the world. According to Bloomberg, Paulson’s firm manages $20 billion in assets. But it’s not just his success that makes him attractive. It’s also what he did during the financial crisis. When the housing bubble burst, Paulson bet big against the housing market. He lost billions but turned those losses into gains when the markets recovered. He was so successful that he became “the man who broke the buck.”

Paulson has been one of the most successful investors in recent years. He made billions of dollars by betting on the subprime mortgage market’s collapse. But now, He says that the United States will eventually have to devalue its currency. He believes the U.S. government should stop printing money to pay off debt and raise taxes. It would cause inflation but also make the U.S. economy more competitive with other countries. Paulson is one of the biggest names in the business of betting against the U. S. dollar.