Tag: Harris Kupperman

Harris Kupperman On Trading Crisis Events
Podcast
Chris MacIntosh

Harris Kupperman of Praetorian Capital

Today I have for you a recorded conversation with Harris Kupperman (Kuppy), a friend of mine who manages Praetorian Capital, a Florida-based hedge fund. Kuppy is one of a clutch of guys who I call on to stress test my views and vice versa. Sometimes we disagree, though more often than

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Mongolia
Podcast
Chris MacIntosh

Mongolia – Finding Its Feet Again

Frontier markets and volatility go together like bacon and eggs. Bursting with energy, chaotic and often smelly they lurch about like a young calf finding its legs. Mongolia could quite aptly be seen to be such a calf. Sometimes the calf lurches about and remains standing. Sometimes it falls over.

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Cuba – Por Que Hay Un Bloqueo

Last night as I was playing a board game with my kids. To make it more interesting we were “bending the rules”. Each player was allowed to make a new rule if they rolled a double six. It was fascinating to watch, as my kids managed to make up asinine

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Cuba – The Economy

From Zimbabwe to Myanmar we’ve personally had the pleasure of witnessing totalitarian government at its finest. The results are stunning and we’ve spoken about them before in these pages. Cuba, however is arguably the epitome of a totalitarian state if ever there was one. It’s important to understand Cuba for

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Cuba – A History

Cuba. Such an illustrious history, such a decadent past and such a wasted present. We continue our series on Cuba compliments of our friend, fellow investor and Chairman of Mongolia Growth (YAK.V) group, Harris “Kuppy” Kupperman. Understanding Cuba’s past and present illustrates the consequences of misguided economic policy and how

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Bienvenido a Cuba!

Our good friend “Kuppy” aka Harris Kupperman, hedge fund prodigy, occasional writer at Adventures in Capitalism and Chairman of Mongolia Growth Group (YAK:V), our favoured means of playing the Mongolian Real estate boom, recently visited that bastion of chronic political ideology gone wrong – Cuba. He has written no less

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Coming – Phase II of the Mongolian Boom!

Since this blog is pretty much a running commentary of our “exploits”, today I decided to post up an email conversation I had with our colleague Harris Kupperman. I took a few liberties with editing, but only slightly so that it would make sense to you, dear readers. By now

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A Conversation with Harris Kupperman – Part Deux

We ended the last post (the first part of a discussion with Harris Kupperman – “Kuppy”) discussing Mongolia and then Cambodia. In this discussion Harris and I moved on to the state of the world economy, and Japan in particular. ——- Chris: We’re living in a very unique investing environment

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