Year: 2018

How You Got Screwed This Week: Volume

It’s hard to think of a sector more opaque or littered with shady characters than the mining industry. Imperfect information leads to speculation, and speculation allows ample opportunity for creative interpretations (read:bullshit). This means that there is ample opportunity for investors to get screwed over by both the incompetent and

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Chris MacIntosh

Insider Weekly: An Overlooked Lesson From The Big Short

Hello, and welcome back! Both of these beauties come from your fellow member Michael. In This Week’s Musings: One of the biggest lessons from The Big Short Japan: the big long Cobalt: testing my resolve Contrarian signs: Monopoly “The Block” Australia: collapsing real estate sales volumes The quiet riot: the

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Global Trends
Chris MacIntosh

Toxic Masculinity – What it Teaches our Children

No frickin’ way am I doing THAT!! A few weeks ago we had a family skiing/snowboarding trip. While sitting at the top of this, this is how my daughter responded to her brother after he invited her to join him in launching himself of the lip and into the valley

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Chris MacIntosh

Insider Weekly: A 27-Year Trendless Nightmare

Hello, and welcome back! Is This It? We’ll cover that but first… From fellow member Dean, an Ozark sunset. Fairytale stuff. But not to be outdone by a yank member Philip snapped this beauty. Looking down the Danube in  Bratislava. In This Week’s Musings: Japan: a 27-year trendless nightmare Australian

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General Investing
Chris MacIntosh

What’s Your Timeframe, Bro?

My son’s a faster sprinter than me. That’s bloody depressing. He’s only a teenager for God’s sake. He’s only just clipped me after years of it being a non-contest. But now the little sods nudged ahead… only just, but what’s worse is that in a years time he’s going to

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Chris MacIntosh

Reshuffling Our Australian Property Trade

In June last year we issued our alert on Australian banking. This was a bearish alert on the Australian banking sector, which was really a proxy for trading our bearish view on what can only be described as a batshit crazy real estate market aka the Australian property market. We

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Weekly Recap
Chris MacIntosh

Found: The Driving Force Behind The Economy

Fake news! And this is how a meme is created. Complete shulbit will do it for you. Even the Weather Channel is faking it to get eyeballs. And as if getting caught shulbitting folks would have caused one to stop and say, “Whoah there big boy, maybe we should just

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Insider Weekly: Not Yet

Hello, and welcome back! This week’s issue is going to be a little, actually a lot, different. Something I feel is worth discussing will be discussed, but first… You lucky bugger! From subscriber Chris: Sunrise in Monaco, where he’s been traveling. And once again, he sent me the same day sunset

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