Bronte Capital

Saturday afternoon and I had volunteer lifesaving duty.  My (broken) collarbone is knitted enough to be able to go in for a swim in modest s...

Here is a sequence of numbers to bring tears of joy to a stockholder and tears of rage to a liberal pundit.*  197 262 211 1...

There have been some mathematical corrections to this post discussed in the comments. My pencil notes had the numbers right. By the time ...

Oh no! Zion sent their Lawyers to get us. It's like being flogged with Jericho lettuce ! The Feral Fundamentalists have C...

There have been a few broker notes out suggesting that the GSE preferred stock is going to zero.  The preferred stock itself has been dreadf...

The parable of the evolution of private banking comes about with a story about a goldsmith.  The goldsmith has the strongest safe in town – ...

After considerable exchange with Zion's lawyers I have amended this post. The well is "probably" dry. For an explanation see...

Whether the Spanish banks are hiding their losses is a major debate going on in the blogosphere and has been detailed at length in  the Fina...

The day the swine flu story broke in the global press I wrote up for the blog a possible influenza hedge.  It was a stock I thought would m...

Mary Schapiro has not got great press amongst financial bloggers – however this time she beat me to the punch. Emergent Health Corp was a...