Amos Tversky — An Amazing Man
Per the very readable new book by Michael Lewis, “The Undoing Project,” Amos Tversky kept these thoughts on a piece of paper by his desk.
Per the very readable new book by Michael Lewis, “The Undoing Project,” Amos Tversky kept these thoughts on a piece of paper by his desk.
by Ben Claremon, Principal and Research Analyst Before you start rolling your eyes, this is not what you might think it is. Sorry, you aren’t
Download a detailed analysis of how a government agency can go completely off the rails of rationality. And it’s probably worse than we think.
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
From Fortune: Senators Call the Wrong Time Warner CEO to Testify about the AT&T Merger You may have heard about the controversial $85.4 billion merger
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.
Check out this video on YouTube: Garrett Rips Secretary Lew For Not Playing by the Same Rules as the Rest of Us
From the Quanex Building Products Presentation on June 9th, 2016 Question (Unknown analyst): So for a number of the manufacturers, particularly in the window side,
The following is a pretty accurate assessment of what is going in the US economy – we think. “—MSC Industrial Direct Q3 Earnings Call —
From the March 2, 2016 Wall Street Journal: Some traders go short. Others go long. Paul Singer went really, really long. His trade, which is
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
A terrific read.
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
Click HERE to download Is Economics Research Replicable? Sixty Published Papers from Thirteen Journals Say “Usually Not.”
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
Dole C.E.O. and Aide Found Liable for $148 Million in Buyout
Quotation of the Day: “The problem for these guys is that I fully understand the system and I understand how they make their money. And
We’ve witnessed many weird and fascinating things in these six years of zero interest rates and quantitative easing but nothing that we’ve seen has personified
by Ben Claremon | Research Analyst As of the huge currency moves the world has witnessed over the last year or so, the topic of
I have no idea how this guy has a life when I merely glance at his bio—but that is not our concern. Substitute “money manager”
“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
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
Download a recent speech by noted Soros “sidekick” Stanley Druckenmiller

by Dean Pagonis | Research Analyst We think you might have noticed the dollar has been appreciating versus most currencies. (Have you heard the one
This report remains the single most coherent and consistently negative argument against…a lot of things we do.
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