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Monday, January 23, 2012

Sky People Fruit Juice and the trials of a short seller

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Just a link for today - to Roddy Boyd talking about Kevin Barnes and Sky People Fruit Juice . Roddy is someone I always read. If Sky Peo...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Diversions: Wild is the wind

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Just had a fabulously productive day at work (meaning I got a long way towards some money-making ideas). And for that I am happy enough fo...
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Friday, January 13, 2012

Tesco - request for comments

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The number of problem long investments in my portfolio doubled overnight - from one to two. (We have some small problem longs and some large...
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Friday, December 30, 2011

The forthcoming irrelevance of the Australian consumer electronics retailers

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This is a post aimed squarely at my hedge fund manager readers who regularly ask me what to short in Australia. The most obvious target (in ...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Sears Holdings liquidation sale

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We have been short Sears Holdings, publicly , albeit in small quantity. Being summer in Australia I did not even look at the market for the ...
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Friday, December 23, 2011

Future Joseph Jett traders get a Christmas card from Mario Draghi

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Well the Euro fix is in. Whether it works - that is another question. But the fix is this: European banks can borrow unlimited amounts for t...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Peculiar goings on at Blogger

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This post is a short apology. Somehow yesterday a post I part-wrote in September - left in draft and never finished - got circulated to my e...
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Solar panel prices continue to fall

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Guidance from Trina and other solar manufacturers was for a wholesale  price to be above $1 per watt. So I got this email from my local su...
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Friday, December 2, 2011

The extent of Chinese solar subsidies and their implications

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Chinese solar makers are facing a countervailing tariff case essentially arguing that the Chinese Government (through state controlled bank...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

The Sino Forest Independent Committee Report - Part 3.

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Sino Forest had a simple enough business model. It held forest and then sold the standing trees to Authorized Intermediaries. AIs (and parti...
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