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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: Philosophical Musings

Our Current Thinking

While we simply HATE to do things that seem to contribute 90% to the din of noise that surrounds investing, this was put in our

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Larry Summers: Eat This!

This is simply a devastatingly effective argument that has never been read in Washington DC and is what we fear in the middle of the night.

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Nothing Further, Sir

Check out this video on YouTube: Garrett Rips Secretary Lew For Not Playing by the Same Rules as the Rest of Us

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Buffett’s Annual Report

One of the reasons why Buffett remains important to us is the increasing frequency at which he echoes our own thoughts: I suggest that you

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The Five Experiments

While parts of this wander from what we do day to day, I think it can be argued that it is difficult to divorce these

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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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Right On…181 Years Later

William Leggett, a Jacksonian Democrat and abolitionist, writing in the New York Evening Post, Nov. 21, 1834: “Whenever a Government assumes the power of discriminating

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This Is a Great Response

“Logic and experience indicate that barring investments in a major, integral sector of the global economy would—especially for a large endowment reliant on sophisticated economic

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Confessions

I have been an on-again, off-again subscriber of the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance (and a predecessor) for more than 20 years. It is worth

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Reading Disorder

A senior member of our investment team read this transcript and couldn’t help but replace the words “investment management” in lieu of the subject being

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