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Thoughts

Exclusive commentary and insights from Team CSC's deep fundamental research, repeatable investment process, and culture of continuous improvement.

Category: Economics at Large

Causation or Correlation?

While we hate to generalize or box our thinking into “styles,” we naturally, self-evidently, and painfully—today—consider ourselves value managers. We have had many conversations in

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Here is Where We Call BS

We read random academic papers. We are innately wary of any sentence that starts with “Our model says. ” We prefer literature without quadratic formulas.

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Not Only in LA

Cosmetic Improvement? The latest survey of US Consumers by Bespoke Investment revealed something both depressing and very interesting. The survey, in its fourth year, regularly

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Another Look at Risks

From JP Morgan’s CEO Jamie Dimon’s Letter to Shareholders 2018:: There are some modest negatives or potentially important differences (than during the last crisis): •

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The Dismal Science

Click HERE to download Is Economics Research Replicable? Sixty Published Papers from Thirteen Journals Say “Usually Not.”

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