Bronte Capital
The sometimes eccentric views of John Hempton
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Follow up on high frequency trading
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My last blog post on high frequency trading got a surprisingly wide reception – and was reprinted for several different audiences. The com...
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Friday, July 24, 2009
High frequency traders – a phoney explanation when nobody seems to know the real explanation
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There are a few changes to this post in italics. These come from the comments. Goldman Sachs made 5.7 billion dollars of trading revenue in...
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
Salary package includes sonic screwdriver and attractive assistant: Australian citizens only
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The Australian Department of Defence is advertising for a TARDIS MANAGER . Americans must be falling behind in defence equipment technology...
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Not buy and hold
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Warren Buffett may – at least in part to make management comfortable – state regularly that his favourite holding period for a stock is fore...
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Monday, July 20, 2009
How did the SEC get it this wrong? The judge throws out the Mark Cuban insider trading charges
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I have not been a fan of the SEC – but on preliminary evidence I am forming a better opinion of Mary Schapiro than most. However as a tag-e...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
The ubiquity of Coca Cola
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I was perusing the Post-Courier Online - a newspaper in Papua New Guinea. The cover story with picture is as follows: Neighbouring tribes ...
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Monday, June 29, 2009
Australia – the lucky but unbalanced country
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I get many emails asking for my opinion as to the Australian economy and the Australian banks in particular. That is not surprising because ...
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Saturday, June 27, 2009
The second derivative is bad
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I have been firmly in the “second derivative is good” camp for some time. Green shoots were few and far between – but the economy no longer...
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Monday, June 22, 2009
Creation Science, oil drilling, naked shorts and constitutionally protected stock fraud
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I once – unfairly perhaps – questioned what passes as mainstream conservative thinking as anti-scientific. The real target was greenhouse...
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Request to BondInvestor from the comments
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Can the person who comments under the name BondInvestor please contact me through the email on the blog. Thanks in advance. John
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