We love to see our heroes fail, including the ones from Wall Street. But John Paulson's investors don't share the same concerns as the media.
FORTUNE -- Hedge fund manager John Paulson burst onto the public stage in a haze of awe and admiration after he bet that subprime mortgages would lose money and his prescience earned him a gargantuan $3.7 billion payday in 2007. In a rare feat for money MORE