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Thursday, August 7, 2014

More than ten thousand tonnes of fuel stolen: African Minerals edition

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I was casually reading some "selected additional information" on the financial condition of African Minerals (a large iron ore mi...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

For kicks: just how big is Herbalife? And a simple proof that this is not a pyramid.

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Herbalife has 3.7 million distributors. There is  very  fast turnover amongst the lower-tiers of the distributor tree. The core bear case ...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Valeant Pharmaceuticals Part IX: A comment on the sale of the facial injectables business

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Valeant missed analyst projections of revenue and guided down their so-called "cash EPS". Regular readers know that I don't ho...
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Saturday, August 2, 2014

Herbalife, Gangnam Style, Bali, Indonesia

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It is the weekend. And I can't resist...
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Friday, August 1, 2014

Steal three billion dollars, get a 700 thousand dollar fine: the scammers have a better business model - Sino Forest edition

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Sino Forest - familiar to many of my readers - was a large forestry company listed in Canada with operations in China. It claimed almost ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Fatal Risk: Beach Reading - a great book to start even if you don't quite finish

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Rarely do I repeat a blog post - but many of my readers are off to the beach and want to start reading a book that they will not finish. M...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

That Herbalife miss

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Herbalife's streak of beating earnings guidance every quarter since 2008 is over. They missed this quarter - not by much - but it is a m...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Herbalife clubs - another experience

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Bill Ackman has made something of my visit to a Herbalife club in his presentation. I have visited several. And I have a radically different...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Herbalife and selective editing

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The first Herbalife distributor I met told me - with a completely straight face that Herbalife cured diabetes. If I put this - and the fir...
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Monday, July 21, 2014

Valeant Pharmaceuticals Part VIII: product sales distribution from the department of "really".

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A key part of the Valeant bull case is that they are extremely diversified as to their product mix and that diversification reduces the risk...
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