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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Mt Gox, bitcoin, Hordes of Chaos, Demons and armies of Orcs...

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One from the vaults . In April last year I posted on the origins of Mt Gox - the bitcoin exchange . To celebrate the collapse of Mt Gox ...
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Monday, February 24, 2014

The really strange Comcast-Netflix deal

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Advanced warning: the first comment here linked to an article which clearly understood this better than me . I am still perplexed - but this...
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Friday, February 21, 2014

I am out of tune with these times

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At core I am an old-fashioned value investor. Maybe a growth-orientated one - but the valuation has to make sense on fairly modest assumptio...
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Monday, February 10, 2014

Blue Nile and Marc Andreesen's theory of public company shareholders, oh and a valuation of Amazon

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Marc Andreesen ( @pmarca  for the must-follow twitter account) has been toying with a theory of public company shareholder. The short (Twitt...
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Friday, February 7, 2014

Jerry Seinfeld on Jos. A. Bank and Men's Warehouse

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The Jos. A. Bank and Mens Warehouse pacman like dance fascinates me. These are companies I don't quite get selling products I don't ...
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Monday, February 3, 2014

Get your opiates for free: Capitalism meets the zombie apocalypse

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I think I have found a new low in the pharmaceutical industry: giving away a month's free supply of potentially lethal high-grade opiods...
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Saturday, February 1, 2014

A metadata summary: the Herbalife letters

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There were three letters sent by Senator Markey about Herbalife. One went to the SEC, one went to the FTC and one went to Herbalife. The m...
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Thursday, January 30, 2014

Michelle Celarier is sitting on a major story

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I wrote two posts yesterday (today Australian time actually). I demonstrated that there were multiple versions of the letters that Senator...
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Michelle Celarier is mistaken about her sources

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Earlier today I posted  two versions of Senator Edward Markey's letter regarding Herbalife . Read that post first. The Bill Ackman ver...
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Senators for billionaires: Edward Markey edition

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Long ago I thought that Bill Ackman's thesis on Herbalife was silly. It was " I am a billionaire hedge fund manager and I can get t...
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