NEW PODCAST WITH CHRIS MACINTOSH To start, Chris’ thoughts on the most pressing geopolitical and macro topics. Chris joined Danny from CapitalCosm for what Danny described as packing 100lbs of isht into a 50lbs bag (or 46kg of isht into a 23kg bag for our non-American friends), including… Listen to the entire
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.
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
Teenagers do stupid things. I speak from authority. Freshly entering pimple-faced territory I had the opportunity to spend some time with a girl who made me weak at the knees. She was everything that my hormone soaked brain wanted. She was also incidentally the owner of and an accomplished rider
When robots eventually take over this planet, killing us all (save a small group singled out to be used as slaves, and thrown into a big brother style environment with live streamed cage fights to the death), or possibly used in lab tests, you can bet that they won’t feel
Nowadays France is better known as the country which has managed to take incomprehensible, anti-growth, anti-sanity, bureaucratic policies, layer them on top of existing, mind-numbing socialist stupidity and have their citizens think it all as ordinary as chocolate cake. It’s enough to induce a guy to reach for Xanax, if
Early in 2012 I noted how cheap Royal Dutch Shell (RDSA) appeared. Certainly the stock looked cheap, though when trading options I need more than just a cheap stock. Importantly, in this instance the availability of ultra-long term December 2016 expiration options (trading on the Amsterdam exchange) also seemed cheap,
Our friend and colleague Harris Kupperman recently wrote an article about Kashagan and the massive delays being enjoyed by this particular project. The problem is that Kashagan is a poster child for the sector as a whole. This isn’t an anomaly. Let me copy a few key paragraphs from his
