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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: Markets, Rationality & Decision Making

Economics at Large

Adulting Time

Take a gander at the takeaways from this “thought piece.” One can make fun of the history of UN fecklessness, but this line of thinking

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Markets, Rationality & Decision Making

Well This Should Make My Job Easier

I am only half kidding with the title above. This article adds some historical perspective to the Small vs. Large debate. Throw in the Value

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Markets, Rationality & Decision Making

These People are Obviously Geniuses

In the article below, “The Size Factor,” the authors come to the logical conclusion, “small caps are trading at the steepest discount to large caps

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Markets, Rationality & Decision Making

Guitars and the Global Economy

  It’s a beautiful thing to be able to tie in anything guitar related with a relevant eye on the investment world, particularly when writing

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Markets, Rationality & Decision Making

Quantitative Easing in the Oil Market?

Because the artificial suppression of interest rates worked so well to blow up asset prices, some of which are now in the severe hangover phase,

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Markets, Rationality & Decision Making

Sobering: Rising Rates
on Fed Finances

From a recent piece in the WSJ by the Townsend Group. Our simple note. The invention of “quantitative easing” essentially meant that the Treasury printed

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Markets, Rationality & Decision Making

Help Is Not on the Way

I started to cherry-pick some paragraphs here, but why? Read for yourself. The man has an opinion. I think the opinion resonates a LOT with

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Markets, Rationality & Decision Making

New Voices
Our Very Own Ryan James

Seeking Safety Well, this has certainly been an eventful quarter. Russia invaded Ukraine, and although not to downplay the severe humanitarian crisis that has resulted,

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Markets, Rationality & Decision Making

This is the Market for
I TOLD YOU SO

Insurance is something we think we know something about, which entitles us to call out from time to time people who know absolutely nothing about

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Markets, Rationality & Decision Making

The World’s Greatest Job..Continued.

Team Van Hoisington has essentially walked into their office every day since 1982 and said, “Buy More 30 Year Treasuries.” That has arguably been the

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Markets, Rationality & Decision Making

Well I am Glad we Have Settled That!

Wow. I was very worried about how we would move forward in 2022, but now that we have the materiality of this risk factor carefully

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