Year: 2022

Trading
CapEx Team

CHINA

Hat tip to my buddy John Winsell Davies for sharing this with me. The China H-shares index is now trading at levels last seen in the immediate aftermath of Lehman in Q4 2008. There are a lot of companies that have been thrown out of the bath with the water.

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No love for Greta? – OWTW

  STRAIGHT OUT OF VENEZUELA’S PLAYBOOK The following sounds like something you’d expect of Venezuela. Sadly, it is France (we double checked, just to be sure): French President Emmanuel Macron said the state will need to take control of some firms in the energy sector in a plan to bolster the country’s independence.

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Capitalist Viewpoints
CapEx Team

PROBABILITY TELLS US

That we’re gonna crash. You will by now have noted that the pointy shoes at the Fed hiked rates by 25 basis points. As my buddy Tony Greer pointed out: The last time we saw inflation at these levels, Fed Funds ratcheted to 15% to cool things down. Fed Funds

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Capitalist Viewpoints
CapEx Team

AS THE INGREDIENTS GO, SO GOES…

…the business. I read a shocking thread that I share with you below. While reading through this consider the implications for the entire Silicon Valley community and growth stocks in that space. Hazard Harrington on Twitter: “I work in Big Tech. A name you would know and have probably used

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Current Affairs/Politics
CapEx Team

Lara is on Fire

Lara Logan is a South African TV and radio journalist as well as a war correspondent. She is one fierce woman who has toured multiple war zones, personally endured horrendous treatment, and is one of the very few remaining honest journalists out there. I highly recommend watching this 10-minute clip of Lara

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OWTW
CapEx Team

The end of globalization – OWTW

We can’t remember when was the last time we agreed with BlackRock’s Larry Fink, but he’s right — we’re witnessing an incredible and rapid end of globalization. This is from MarketWatch: “I remain a long-term believer in the benefits of globalization and the power of global capital markets,” said the

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Healthcare
CapEx Team

GOT YOUR VITAMINS?

Second order effects of this incredible and rapid de-globalisation taking place. Did you know (I didn’t) that China and the EU are about 60/40 for global market share of vitamin E production? Take a look at this breakdown: EU has 65% of A, and CN/EU/IN split B3 about equally. China

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UAE
Capitalist Viewpoints
CapEx Team

UAE

On the topic of the “world splitting”… you know my thinking. Collectively trying to get a dozen friends together to agree on what movie to watch can be challenging. Trying to get the entire world to follow Klaus Schwab’s twisted agenda was always going to be difficult. Certainly it seems

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