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The sometimes eccentric views of John Hempton

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Flagrant breach of copyright by TeacherSoft

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There is a really fine company out there – we will call it TeacherSoft.  TeacherSoft wants to build the best possible education platform and...
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Saturday, February 5, 2011

China Agritech. The "sniff test" and other questions for Anne Zheng and Carlyle

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China scams are becoming so - well - yesterday.  There was a lot of it yesterday - hence two long posts in a day. I barely noticed that Lu...
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Friday, February 4, 2011

China Media Express: what disconcerted me when I read the accounts

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China Media Express is a tiny company about which there is – as I have noted – major passion and drama on Wall Street. My last post indic...
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Thursday, February 3, 2011

The Microsoft-Google spat explained

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It took me a while to understand the Google-Microsoft spat regarding Bing incorporating Google results into Bing searches.  Its important fo...
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

China Media Express: The Wall Street Drama continues

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For the last few days my blog post about China Media Express has been the most visited post on this site.  Strange really because China Med...
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Thursday, January 27, 2011

Fred got laid off: it's on the foreclosure list now

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A gem from Jim the Realtor . PS.  Even the title is not original - it was purloined from the comments.
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Monday, January 24, 2011

What to do with Fannie and Freddie

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There are a bunch of ideologues out there with solutions to the Fannie and Freddie situation.  They argue that government intervention has t...
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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Skepticism and wealthy investors

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I know a rich bloke who is usually pretty switched on who is a private investor in Black Light Power . That is - at least to my eyes - a v...
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Swashbuckling versus risk: a comment on marketing small hedge funds

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Laurence Fletcher wrote a piece in Reuters about how some hedge funds are losing their sex appeal. Only a minority of rich clients want a...
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Some Logitech feedback and China macro

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Thanks for the comment - email and otherwise on the Logitech post. The first comment (made fairly consistently) is that the core assumptio...
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