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The sometimes eccentric views of John Hempton

Thursday, February 7, 2019

A quick note on the resignations at the top of National Australia Bank

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The Chairman (Dr Henry) and the CEO (Andrew Thorburn) of National Australia Bank have just resigned following criticism by the Australian Ba...
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Monday, January 14, 2019

The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition. Jonathan Tepper and Denise Hearn. A review...

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The Myth of Capitalism is a polemic about the reduction in competition in many industries in the US. And it starts in an entirely appropriat...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Afterpay: a regulator view

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The Australian Securities regulator (ASIC) has come out with a long review of buy-now-pay later arrangements in which it has decided to  do ...
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Monday, October 15, 2018

Schadenfreude: reposting a 2011 post on Sears

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I posted on Sears in 2011 .  They finally filed bankruptcy. I am surprised it took that long. Here though is the post again. It reads ...
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Monday, October 1, 2018

The last day of the quarter (Tesla edition)

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Hedge fund managers who actively trade to produce profit specifically on the last day of the quarter should be treated with scorn. They are ...
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Monday, September 17, 2018

Crypto Pot Stock

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There is a point in the cycle when it is impossible to separate comedy from stock promotion. Examples in the past: China Agritech (a fra...
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Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Thinking aloud about China Biologic Products

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There are stocks which you never get right - and where the facts and history is just so ambiguous that you don't think you will ever get...
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Saturday, September 1, 2018

How the Chinese business elite think of America...

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China Properties Group is a Hong Kong listed property developer with operations in Shanghai, Beijing and Kunshan. The business conditions d...
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Monday, August 13, 2018

Dear Bayer shareholders, what are you thinking?

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Bayer is a life-sciences company. It sell drugs with litigation risks (especially Xarel to ), it genetically modifies seeds (which I guess h...
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Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Dear Michael Clarke, there are worse things you can do than tamper with the ball using sandpaper

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Note, as of 20 October the crypto-currency referred to in this blog post is no more and Michael Clarke has dissociated himself from this cry...
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