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10 Biggest Ideas in “How NOT to Invest”

The Big Picture

The challenge in writing How NOT to Invest was organizing a large number of ideas, many of which were only loosely connected, into something coherent, understandable, and, most importantly, readable. How can we re-engineer our media consumption to make it more useful to our needs? Bad Numbers : 4. It is March 18th!

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Thursday links: the cause of bubbles

Abnormal Returns

(theblock.co) Companies Cory Doctorow, "In its nearly 25-year history, Google has made one and a half successful products: a once-great search engine and a pretty good Hotmail clone. howardlindzon.com) Private assets Why private equity needs much better valuations. Everything else it built in-house has crashed and burned."

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Transcript: John Montgomery, Bridgeway Capital Management

The Big Picture

In addition, they’ve put up some really impressive numbers over the past 30 years, which has given them the opportunity to donate tens of millions of dollars to their favorite organizations. You, you were pretty early to computer modeling and statistical methods as a research engineer at MAT, this is the late 1970s.

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Transcript: Ron Shaich, Au Bon Pain, Panera Bread & CAVA

The Big Picture

So, so those numbers are astonishing. And there was a number that were actually in that business. You know, and, and, and so we expanded into a number of different other businesses. 00:38:56 [Speaker Changed] Much more aggressive numbers 00:38:57 [Speaker Changed] Six months after the Starbucks discussions.

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Transcript: Kenneth Tropin

The Big Picture

And if you’re able to do that in a diverse number of markets and asset classes, while managing risk in the markets that aren’t trending, you know, that’s in general how trend following works. Maybe we’ll get down to 4% or 5%, but that’s the number the Fed doesn’t like. TROPIN: Correct. TROPIN: Yeah.

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Transcript: Jeffrey Becker, Jennison Associates Chair/CEO

The Big Picture

We learned everything, you know, across from accounting to auditing to, to tax and valuation. I ended up in what was called the valuation services group, where we valued real estate and businesses either for transactions or for m and a activity. So that, that number ultimately is about 40 billion of our 150 billion of equity.

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AI Revolution and Debt Ceiling Resolution

Investing Caffeine

the computing engines behind the AI revolution. Some pundits are comparing AI proliferation to the Industrial Revolution – on par with productivity-enhancing advancements like the steam engine, electricity, personal computers, and the internet. To put these numbers in context, Apple’s $2.8 Source: NVIDIA Corp. –