Bronte Capital
The sometimes eccentric views of John Hempton
Friday, January 23, 2009
Scandinavian bank nationalisation and due process
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The proposal in my nationalisation after due process post the proposal I gave was not new. I probably should have pointed out it had a pre...
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Thursday, January 22, 2009
The last bank with an antidilution clause...
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Was Washington Mutual. It caused them no end of trouble. Barclays has one. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/...
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Zero in Japan versus zero in America
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I don’t have a solid economic model of different types of zero interest rate policies. I guess the number of instances historically doesn’...
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Decline and fall of the British Aristocracy
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Just a link. A fine book review from the Investor's Consigliere.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Buiter's Modest Proposal
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It is funny how I spend a lot of my time arguing with people I fundamentally agree with. Today’s blog post by the well respected Professor...
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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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