Bronte Capital
The sometimes eccentric views of John Hempton
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Obama: hotter than sex
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The official Whitehouse website is whitehouse.gov. However I am so used to typing a site as ctrl enter “whitehouse” that I was a freque...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Luigi Zingales has it right
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Luigi Zingales knows a few things about how the new administration should behave. He may be a little too jaundiced about nationalisation - ...
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Lest you think I disagree with Krugman too much
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Krugman makes the obvious point that being fixed to the Euro hardly imunizes you from financial crises. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/200...
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A slogan for the new administration: nationalisation after due process
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A lot of my readers mis-understood my last post. It was only to point out that with a government guarantee even fairly heftily insolvent ba...
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Monday, January 19, 2009
Voodoo maths and dead banks
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I am not afraid bank nationalisation. Real capitalists nationalise – meaning if the taxpayer takes the risk the taxpayer gets (any) upsi...
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Sweden, Norway and a request for some decent macroeconomic models
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Warning – non-stock post – mostly macroeconomics problems. There is a debate online about what the Swedes did or did not do to bail out thei...
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Friday, January 16, 2009
HSBC are thugs (sorry “partners”)
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HSBC has gotten a little aggro lately – an analyst dispute widely reported in the FT and other places. By the standards of the story I am...
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Thursday, January 15, 2009
Riots in Riga
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There are times that I would prefer not be right In the single most famous post on this blog ( Hookers that cost too much ) I predicted midd...
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Book review – Gerald Stone’s Who killed channel 9?
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For the non-Australians out there - Channel 9 is the once dominant TV network in Australia with a "galaxy of stars". It had the l...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
How diabolically desperate are the oil exporting states?
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The oil market is currently in super-contango . That is the forward prices are much higher than current prices. Usually speculators fix thi...
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