Bronte Capital

I never realized I had quite so many super-smart and geeky readers.  The quality of comments – especially those that came through my inbox ...

Forgive a long post – but I suspect this might develop into a theme.  My business partner thought I should break this post up – but I figure...

I do not do links often – so they have to be good.  These two are gems and I am (a) sick in bed and (b) working on a very long post on a new...

The defining character of bank results up until Wells Fargo was (a) rapidly improving credit and (b) declining revenue. When I state that ...

The local paper has reported that Ross Tarrant has closed the financial planning arm of his business .  Ross Tarrant’s business survived t...

By now it is obvious – the money in the Alpha Strategic Fund – now named the Astarra Strategic Fund – has been stolen. Who was the actual ...

Lets recap my arguments from the early parts of this series.  In Part 2 of the series I showed that if the Greek sovereign defaults either ...

I am thinking out loud here – and hope for comments.  For our portfolio it has not been a happy few days.  You will need to click for the ta...

Bank of America has finally admitted that it understated the quarter end assets and liabilities for the years 2007 to 2009.  It does not (ye...

I grew up in the latter part of the cold war and despite our modern day challenges we are far better off with the nuclear armed and ideology...