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The sometimes eccentric views of John Hempton

Saturday, December 30, 2017

Herbalife and Bill Ackman in furious agreement

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Today Bill Ackman announced that Pershing Square was settling an insider trading securities class action. To quote: Pershing Square and ...
Monday, December 25, 2017

The Urban Dictionary is surprisingly up-to-date: nocoiner edition

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nocoiner A  Nocoiner  is a person who has no Bitcoin. Nocoiners ( usually  Socialists, Lawyers or MBA Economists ) are  people  who misse...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Why settle for just one bubble?

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Step 1. Be a marijuana thing. Step 2. Be a bitcoin thing. Step 3. ... Step 4. Profit!
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Wednesday, November 15, 2017

An initial coin offering for augmented reality smart glasses: you only live once...

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This advert - offering another cyrptocoin - specifically for *really smart* augmented reality smart glasses marks the new crypto-high. ...
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Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Apple pulls a Dell

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The keyboard on my new (current model) MacBook Pro is sticking. So I take it to the Genius Bar. It was two hours for an appointment - and ...
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Saturday, August 12, 2017

Some thoughts on the firing of James Damore from Google

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As the world knows by now James Damore was fired from Google for writing a memo that questioned Google's diversity policies. As a hold...
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Thursday, August 3, 2017

E&P decoding - Pioneer Natural Resources edition

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I think I know what this means but as per usual the internet is full of people who know far more than me. You dear readers are my 20 thousa...
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Saturday, July 15, 2017

The cyclicality of share buy-backs: Costco edition

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Currently looking through Costco - one of the finest companies I know. (We do not own a stake...) Anyway this is hardly a Costco specific ...
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Thursday, July 13, 2017

E*Trade advert...

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In the old days an advert like this would have marked the top. Completely floored to see adverts this extreme again. Source: Twitter...
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Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Canadian non-standard mortgages: a state of play

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Regular readers of this blog will be aware that Home Capital Group - a Canadian non-standard mortgage lender - is in financial trouble . T...
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