Thoughts

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

Markets, Rationality & Decision Making

Mini-Plug: Ecovyst

You can run your PA as you see fit. We would suggest this is your second largest position as is ours. This recent presentation does

Read More »
Markets, Rationality & Decision Making

Cleaning Up – It’s Possible

Yes, that is the Principal at the far end as the moderator for an investment panel at the Markel Annual Meeting (Yes – please come

Read More »
Markets, Rationality & Decision Making

Oxymoron Time?

Verdad Research puts forth these boxes. It sums up to old school CFA stuff: you tend to get paid well in statistically cheap and you

Read More »
Economics at Large

Well, We Have One Reader!

This is from an X shareholder in CNX Resources we mentioned in a previous blog. “I was recently reading or listening to something – I

Read More »
Markets, Rationality & Decision Making

How Not to Make Money in an Energy Stock

Get sucked into this “crazy” mentality which works for every industry but oil and gas. Own assets near the largest “users” of natural gas in

Read More »
Markets, Rationality & Decision Making

Old School Buffett

WB is running around Japan meeting his “Big 5” Japanese investments and raising nearly free capital to fund it, which is another neat way of

Read More »
Thoughts

SBC…..Earnings Disinformation

We have written numerous times about the degradation of what constitutes “earnings.” We are talking decades. But excluding compensation issued via stock vs cash is

Read More »
Markets, Rationality & Decision Making

This is REALLY Important to Read

…if you are thinking about spending literally trillions of dollars on a new policy imperative. A Recent conference clip from Seifollah Ghasemi, Chairman, President &

Read More »

Important Notice

You are now leaving Cove Street Capital’s website and entering Cove Street’s Mutual Fund website.