Robert Kiyosaki, author of the best-selling financial book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad," believes that a series of recent operations by Buffett and the prototype character of the movie "The Big Short" Michael Burry shows that they are preparing for the collapse of the U.S. stock market. "Buffett is sitting on the sidelines with $147 billion and his money is in short-term U.S. Treasuries," Kiyosaki said in an interview. "The Big Short's Michael Burry is shorting the market right now." Buffett has never publicly predicted the stock market Crashed, but he's net sold $33 billion worth of stock over the past three quarters, Berkshire's cash pile has grown by $38 billion, and now has enough "dry powder" that if the market does pull back, he can Used to buy penny stocks and acquisitions, as he did during the "Great Recession" that followed the financial crisis.

Securities data released on Monday showed that Michael Burry, the prototype fund manager of the movie "The Big Short", held put options on the S & P 500 index and the Nasdaq 100 index at the end of the second quarter. Burry's fund, Scion Asset Management, bought put options on the Invesco QQQ Trust ETF, which tracks the Nasdaq 100, for a notional value of $739 million; Put options on the S&P 500 ETF.