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The sometimes eccentric views of John Hempton

Thursday, March 19, 2020

Coronavirus – getting angry

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I am going to give you a few stylised facts about severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2  and the data. First – no matter what y...
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Monday, March 2, 2020

Coronavirus is more popular than sex (except in South Africa)

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I was wanting a way of judging just how serious the coronavirus outbreak is in Iran. Alas government figures are not to be trusted. And figu...
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Thursday, February 13, 2020

Pretium Resources: short memory

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This post requires correction/clarification. There are at dozens of press reports that state the mining accident happened at the Brucejack...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2019

A MiFID solution that works

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We had troubles getting brokers to organise us meetings with management and/or past staff or customers. This is a core to the research proce...
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Saturday, August 31, 2019

Blue Sky - some notes and an agenda for ASIC

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Blue Sky Alternative Investments Limited collapsed after a short-sellers report from Glaucus - a now-disbanded two person short-selling rese...
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Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Thinking aloud about bank margins - Part 2

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Part 1 of this series laid out a bleak future for monetary policy and/or banks. As interest rates go down so do bank margins and there are ...
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Monday, August 19, 2019

Thinking aloud about bank margins - Part 1

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Pre-warning: this series of posts is called "thinking aloud about..." because I do not know where it ends. I am genuinely explorin...
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Saturday, August 17, 2019

One more brief comment on the Markopolis GE paper

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The absolute core of the Harry Markopolis paper is that GE is dramatically under-reserved for long term care insurance. And it clearly has...
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Thursday, August 15, 2019

The flat-out silly Markopolos GE report

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GE is a deeply problematic company. It might not make it. And Harry Markopolos - the Madoff whistleblower - has put out a report on GE. Th...
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