Thursday, October 31, 2019

Links

The Latticework Podcast, presented by MOI Global: William Green with Arnold Van Den Berg at Latticework New York 2019 (LINK)

Rob Arnott Video: Past Is Not Prologue (LINK)
Chasing returns can be very costly. High valuations can go higher, but not indefinitely. At Research Affiliates’ recent Investment Symposium in London, Rob Arnott explains how the link between starting valuations and subsequent returns is powerful, and examines which investments look attractive today.
The Spectrum of Wealth - by Morgan Housel (LINK)

Value investor Joel Greenblatt says this company could solve a key hurdle in esports’ growth [H/T Linc] (LINK)

Barry Diller on CNBC (LINK)

Apollo Asia Fund: the manager's report for 3Q19 (LINK)

Remember QR Codes? They’re More Powerful Than You Think (LINK)

Venture Stories Podcast: Jerry Yang on China, Yahoo!, and Early-Stage Investing (LINK)

What is Chasing You? - by Ian Cassel (LINK)


Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Links

Buildings are bad for the climate. Here’s what we can do about it. - by Bill Gates (LINK)

Key Takeaways from the book Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (LINK)

Key Takeaways from the book Who Is Michael Ovitz? (LINK)

An essay from Matthew Ball on how the Marvel Cinematic Universe came to be the most dominant cultural force Hollywood has ever seen (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)

Q&A with former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos about Mark Zuckerberg's recent comments on free speech and where he went wrong, Facebook's News tab, fact-checking political ads, and more (LINK)

Invest Like the Best Podcast: Chad Cascarilla – The Future of Blockchain and Financial Services (LINK)

Peter Thiel on “The Straussian Moment” (video) (LINK)

Why Don’t We Know How to Protect Our Time? - by Ryan Holiday (LINK)

Monday, October 28, 2019

Links

"We’re looking for the obvious, and something that is within our capability of doing something about. But we’re not trying to beat people at their own game where we’re not very good at the game." --Warren Buffett (1996)

How Jim Simons Built the Best Hedge Fund Ever (LINK)
Related book: The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
Disney Is New to Streaming, but Its Marketing Is Unmatched (LINK)

Bradley Jacobs Has Acquired More Than 500 Companies. Here's What He Has Learned. ($) (LINK)

The Australian fund manager who uses FBI training to see through CEO lies [H/T @iancassel] (LINK)

What's Blockchain Actually Good for, Anyway? For Now, Not Much (LINK)

Biology is Eating the World: A Manifesto (LINK)

Odd Lots Podcast: Why Taiwanese Life Insurers Are The Great ‘Whodunit’ Of The Financial World (LINK)

The Peter Attia Drive: #77 – AMA #2 with sleep expert, Matthew Walker, Ph.D. (LINK)

How to Use Occam’s Razor Without Getting Cut (LINK)

How to Be Patient in an Impatient World - by Mark Manson (LINK)

Has Humanity’s Homeland Been Found? - by Ed Yong (LINK)
A contentious new paper traces the origins of modern humans to ancient wetlands in Africa, a claim other researchers have called far-fetched.

Sunday, October 27, 2019

Links

"A really wonderful business is very well protected against the vicissitudes of the economy over time and the competition. I mean, we’re talking about businesses that are resistant to effective competition. And three of those will be better than 100 average businesses. And they’ll be safer, incidentally. There is less risk in owning three easy-to-identify, wonderful businesses than there is in owning 50 well-known, big businesses." --Warren Buffett (1996)

Horizon Kinetics Q3 Commentary (LINK) [Audio Q3 call is also available, HERE.]

Putting the Buy-and-Hold Gospel to the Ultimate Test - by Jason Zweig ($) (LINK)

Microsoft Is the Surprise Winner of a $10B Pentagon Contract (LINK)

How much longer can the debt-burdened consumer hold up the U.S. economy? (LINK)

The Fall of WeWork: How a Startup Darling Came Unglued ($) (LINK)

Adam Neumann Is the Most Talented Grifter of Our Time - by Derek Thompson (LINK)

Acquired Podcast: The WeWork “Acquisition” (LINK)

The Acquirers Podcast: Connor Haley talks long/short microcaps (LINK)

Exponent Podcast: 176 — The Second Estate Era (LINK)

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: 64 - Supernova in the East III (LINK)

Sequoia - Remembering Don Valentine (LINK)

Fossil trove shows life's fast recovery after big extinction [H/T Linc] (LINK)

Thursday, October 24, 2019

Links

"I love focused management. If you read the Coca-Cola annual report, you will not get the idea that Roberto Goizueta is thinking about a whole lot of things other than Coca-Cola. And I have seen that work time after time. And when they lose that focus — as, actually, did Coke and Gillette both, at one point 20 to 30 years ago somewhat — it shows up. I mean, two great organizations were not hitting their potential 20 years ago. And then they became refocused. And what a difference it makes. It makes tens of billions of dollars’ worth of difference, in terms of market value. GEICO actually started fooling around in a number of things in the early ’80s, and they paid a price to do it. They paid a very big price. They paid a direct price, in terms of the cost of those things, because they almost all worked out badly. And then they paid an additional price in the loss of focus on the main business.... So, we like focus. We love focus." --Warren Buffett (1996)

Jeff Bezos at the International Astronautical Congress (video) (LINK)

Evolve or Die - by Ian Cassel (LINK)

Scaling Fallacy in Investing (LINK)

Ben Thompson interviews Ghost CEO John O’Nolan (LINK)

The Tim Ferriss Show (podcast): #392: Ben Horowitz (LINK)
Related book: What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture
The Meb Faber Show (podcast): #183 - Ben Inker (LINK)

Conversations with Tyler (podcast): Henry Farrell on Weaponized Interdependence, Big Tech, and Playing with Ideas (LINK)

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Links

"If you can protect downside, you don't need to figure out upside. In fact, those will give you the best upside because markets hate them till the upside is clearly visible." --Mohnish Pabrai

How did Mohnish Pabrai inspire Guy Spier? An interview in the Aquamarine Fund's office in Zurich (video) [H/T @mstafford] (LINK)

Satya Nadella at Stanford (video) (LINK)

Oaktree Insights: Emerging Markets Equities Strategy Video (LINK)

Useful Biases - by Morgan Housel (LINK)

Netflix Versus Blockbuster (LINK)

Neumann to Get Up to $1.7 Billion to Exit WeWork as SoftBank Takes Control ($) (LINK)

Death and Deals: Sick Children Suffer, Private Equity Profits (LINK)

The Joe Rogan Experience (podcast): #1366 - Richard Dawkins (LINK)

Monday, October 21, 2019

Links

The Internet and the Third Estate - by Ben Thompson (LINK)

25th Anniversary of Financial Shenanigans with Howard Schilit - Author Series: Financial Reporting & Analysis Edition (May 2018 video) [H/T @colemanrhawkins] (LINK)
Related book: Financial Shenanigans
Greenhaven Road Capital's Q3 Letter [H/T @mastersinvest] (LINK)

Massif Capital Q3 Letter (LINK)

Patience: An Undervalued Virtue - by Frank K. Martin (LINK)

The Acquirers Podcast: Joseph Boskovich talks with Tobias Carlisle about finding great owner/operators (LINK)

Grant’s Current Yield Podcast: Time to make the Donuts (LINK)

North Star Podcast: Ryan Holiday: Timeless Lessons From History (LINK)
Related book: Stillness Is the Key
A Textbook Evolutionary Story Is Wrong - by Ed Yong (LINK)

Sunday, October 20, 2019

Warren Buffett on share repurchases and intrinsic value

From the 1996 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting:
If you’re repurchasing shares above a rationally calculated intrinsic value, you are harming your shareholders, just as if you issue shares beneath that figure, you are harming your shareholders. 
That’s a truism. Now, the tough part of that, of course, is coming up with the intrinsic value. 
A good example might be Coca-Cola. 
I think a number of people might have thought Coca-Cola was repurchasing shares at a very high price, because they’ll look at book value or P/E ratios. But there’s a lot more to intrinsic value than book value and P/E ratios. And anytime anybody gives you some simplified formula for figuring it out, forget it. 
You have to understand the business. The people who understood that business well, the management, have understood and been very forthright about saying so over the years, that by repurchasing their shares, they are adding to the value per share for remaining shareholders. 
And like I say, people who didn’t understand Coca-Cola, or who thought mechanistic methods of valuation should take precedence, really misjudged the value to the Coca-Cola Company of those repurchases. 
So we favor — when you have a wonderful business — we favor using funds that are generated out of that business to make the business even more wonderful. And we favor repurchasing shares if those shares are below intrinsic value. 
And I would say that if it’s a really wonderful business, we probably come up with higher intrinsic values than most people do. 
We have great respect, Charlie and I with — I think it’s developed over the years — we have enormous respect for the power of a really outstanding business. And we recognize how scarce they are. And if a management wishes to further intensify our ownership by repurchasing shares, we applaud. 
We own — we just went over 8 percent of the Coca-Cola Company, probably, in the last three or so months, by a very tiny fraction. But we had a second purchase one time. 
But our percentage interest in the Coca-Cola Company has gone up significantly through their repurchases. And we are better off because they have bought those shares at what looked like, to some people, perhaps, high prices. And we thought they were wrong at the time, and I think now it’s been indicated or proven. 
So, I urge you, if you’re trying to decide on the wisdom of repurchases, or of share issuances, that you don’t think in terms of book value. You don’t think in terms of specific P/Es. You don’t think in terms of any little model. 
But you think in terms of what would you really... A) pick businesses you can understand; and then think what you really would pay to be in those businesses. And that’s what counts over time, is whether the repurchases are made at a discount from that figure. 
And I would say with the companies that we own shares in — our interest in GEICO went from 33 or so percent to 50 percent over a 15-year or so period, simply through repurchases. And we benefited significantly. 
So did every other shareholder, I might add, that stayed with the company. And we benefited in no way disproportionate to them. 
But that was a very wise action on their part. And there too, they were usually buying that stock at at least double book value. And you could compare it to other insurance stocks and say, “Well, that’s too much to pay.” 
But GEICO wasn’t an insurance company that was comparable to other insurance companies. It was a very different sort of business. And they were very wise, in my view, to be following that course of action.

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Related previous post: Warren Buffett on Share Repurchases

Saturday, October 19, 2019

Links

"In baseball terms, you want to buy [a stock] in the second or third inning and get out in the seventh or eighth. Walmart was in only 15% of the United States when they were a 10-year-old public company. All they did for the next 30 years was go from 15% to 100%. The stock went up 50-fold. They had a great formula, and they just rolled with it in the United States." --Peter Lynch

Lessons from an investing legend: Former Fidelity fund manager Peter Lynch shares some of his secrets to success [H/T @TaoValue] (LINK)

Oaktree's Howard Marks on Negative Rates, Demanding Safety, U.S. Recession (video) (LINK)
Related memo: "Mysterious"
Time for Advisers to Speak to Us in Plain English - by Jason Zweig ($) (LINK)

Neil Woodford: the inside story of his rise and dramatic fall ($) (LINK)

Why It’s So Hard to Make a Better Baby Formula (LINK)

The World's Largest Geode Formed When the Mediterranean Sea Disappeared [H/T Linc] (LINK)

"Some things are inevitable. But you really shouldn't think you know when." --Howard Marks

Friday, October 18, 2019

Links

"The vast majority of today’s negative-yield bonds are in Europe and Japan.  One of the biggest questions surrounds whether negative rates will reach the U.S. This question takes me back to my immediate response to Ian’s suggestion that I write this memo: nobody knows, and certainly not me.  When something hasn’t happened in the past, it’s impossible to be sure you know how it’ll end up.  Different people will express opinions on this subject with differing degrees of confidence.  Yet I remain certain that none of them 'know.'" --Howard Marks ("Mysterious")

Disney, IP, and "Returns to Marginal Affinity" - by Matthew Ball (LINK)

Media mogul Barry Diller: Match is in a ridiculous phase of growth (video) (LINK)

The Rental Economy Is at Risk in a Downturn ($) (LINK)

Are We on the Cusp of the Next Dot-Com Bubble? - by Derek Thompson (LINK)

Disrupting the IPO Process: Challenging the Banker-run Going-Public Model! - by Aswath Damodaran (LINK)

Sohn San Francisco Investment Conference Notes (Part 1, Part 2)

Which Way Do You Run? - by Ben Horowitz (LINK)

Six Trends Revolutionizing Games (LINK)

Hollywood’s Video Game Blind Spot (LINK)

When Medical Debt Collectors Decide Who Gets Arrested [H/T @Atul_Gawande] (LINK)

How To Academy Podcast: Rory Sutherland - How to Be Less Rational (and More Brilliant) [H/T @CravenPartners] (LINK)
Related book: Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life 
Cal Newport and James Clear in conversation (LINK)

Adults Are Getting More Food Allergies. Scientists Still Aren't Sure Why (LINK)

A Hidden World of Strange Starfish-Like Creatures in the Abyss - by Ed Yong (LINK)

Thursday, October 17, 2019

Howard Marks Memo: Mysterious

Link to Memo: Mysterious
Negative interest rates are nothing short of a mystery; they’re likely to throw off whatever we knew about the financial world and how things worked in the past. With more than $17 trillion of global debt trading at nominal yields below zero — and about double when considering inflation — this phenomenon has prompted differing perspectives about its purpose and consequences. Howard Marks offers his in this memo, in which he discusses why negative rates have become prevalent, what implications they might have, whether they will reach the U.S., and what investors can do as they navigate these uncharted waters. 

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Links

On Howard Marks’ Memos (LINK)

Portrait of an Inessential Government Worker - by Michael Lewis (LINK)
Related book: The Fifth Risk (upcoming paperback edition)
Google and Ambient Computing – by Ben Thompson (LINK)

Why New Technology Is A Hard Sell - by Morgan Housel (LINK)

Acquired Podcast: Season 5, Episode 5: Atari (LINK)

How Salesforce Closed the Pay Gap Between Men and Women (LINK)
In an excerpt from his new book, Marc Benioff says he initially didn't believe any pay gap was pervasive in the first place.
Tuning up photosynthesis to feed the world - by Bill Gates (LINK)

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Links

"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it." --Benjamin Franklin

Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan (LINK)

Fall 2019 issue of Graham & Doddsville (LINK)

The Heilbrunn Center's Schloss Archive is also worth going back and checking out periodically (LINK)

The Knowledge Project Podcast: #68 Daniel Kahneman: Putting Your Intuition on Ice (LINK)

Exponent Podcast: 175 — The Abyss Stares Back (LINK)

The Next Big Idea Podcast: Malcolm Gladwell and David Epstein on the Keys to Success (LINK)
Related book: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

Monday, October 14, 2019

Links

"The businesses at the top of my portfolio are not necessarily going to be the ones that perform the best over the long term but are the ones I know will perform." --Chris Bloomstran [Source

1986 article: How to Tame the Casino Society - by Warren E. Buffett [H/T Linc] (LINK)

Non-Ergodicity and its Implications for Businesses and Investors - by Sanjay Bakshi (LINK)

A Big Little Idea Called Ergodicity (Or The Ultimate Guide to Russian Roulette) (LINK)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Skin in the Game (video) (LINK)
Related book: Skin in the Game
Robert G. Hagstrom on Liberal Arts Investing (video) (LINK)

Making a Killing with Bethany McLean (podcast): Tesla, and why "Elon Musk doesn't care about you" (LINK)

The Acquirers Podcast: Big Decisions: Michael Mauboussin talks luck, skill, success, risk, mean reversion and the base rate (LINK)

Robert Iger talks with Oprah Winfrey about his career at Disney (video) (LINK)
Related book: The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
Yuval Noah Harari & Steven Pinker in conversation (video) (LINK)

The world is uniting to help this group - by Bill Gates (LINK)
Bill Gates delivers a speech at the Global Fund Replenishment conference in France.
The Many Contradictions of Thomas Edison - by Derek Thompson (LINK)
Related book: Edison - by Edmund Morris
It's only $4.99. But Costco's rotisserie chicken comes at a huge price (LINK)

A tweetstorm from Tren Griffin about wholesale transfer pricing power (LINK)

Why So Negative? - by Peter Zeihan (LINK)

What Economists (Including Me) Got Wrong About Globalization - by Paul Krugman (LINK)

Odd Lots Podcast: Why Governments Haven’t Learned The Lessons Of Japan (LINK)

The New Yorker Radio Hour (podcast): New Yorker Writers on Hong Kong, and Nixon After Tiananmen Square (LINK)

The New Yorker: Politics and More Podcast: Trump’s Abandonment of the Kurds Appeases Erdoğan and Infuriates Republicans (LINK)
Dexter Filkins joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss how the incursion into Syria is affecting one of the most volatile regions in the world, and what it could mean for Trump’s Presidency.
5 Tenets of a Negative Self-Help - by Mark Manson (LINK)

Magnetars are the most powerful magnets in the Universe. Here's how they're made. - by Phil Plait (LINK)

What Made Me Reconsider the Anthropocene - by Peter Brannen (LINK)

Investment Masters: Learning From Chris Bloomstran

Link to: Investment Masters: Learning From Chris Bloomstran:
Whilst I’m a long-time avid follower of all of the Investment Masters, and I have to say a veritable devourer of their collected wisdom, there is nothing more valuable to me as an investor than actually speaking with these amazing people. Whether it’s a meeting at Berkshire, the odd telephone dialogue or even an interview, all of these interactions deepen my understanding of their unique views on financial and business matters and for that matter, the investment world. 
Recently I had a wonderful opportunity to Interview Chris Bloomstran of Semper Augustus. Chris is a veteran of the Investment Fraternity and a recognised Master; The stocks in his portfolio have compounded at 4.7% above the S&P 500 since launching Semper Augustus more than 20 years ago. I’ve always valued what he has to say and our interview was no exception. 
We covered many topics in the few hours in which we spoke, and I am incredibly grateful to Chris for being so open in sharing his knowledge and experience. I have collected the gems from our interview below.
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Thursday, October 10, 2019

Links

Note: The early bird discount for the Project Punch Card Value Investing Conference expires on Tuesday, October 15th (when the price will increase from $245 to $495).

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Is Amazon Unstoppable? - by Charles Duhigg (LINK)

That Time Warren Buffett's Investment Was Blocked by Bank of America’s Call Center (LINK)

GMO Quarterly Letter | Shades of 2000 - by Ben Inker (LINK)
The years leading up to the 2000 stock market bubble were extraordinary and unprecedented. They caused unique pain to the portfolios of valuation-driven investors. The valuation extremes, though, created the greatest opportunity set for valuation-driven investors since the Great Depression. While the events of the last decade have not been as striking as those of the late 1990s, the recent cycle has gone on for significantly longer and the pain caused to our portfolios has begun to approach 1990’s levels. As the current cycle has ground on slowly but surely, the valuation extremes have moved wider, creating an opportunity set for valuation-driven investors that looks as extraordinary as what we saw 20 years ago.
Bill Nygren Market Commentary | 3Q19 (LINK)

Greece, Once in Crisis, Joins Negative-Rates Club ($) (LINK)
Debt-laden country sells bonds yielding less than 0% for the first time
China Forces the N.B.A. to Weigh Value Against Values - by Evan Osnos (LINK)

Shipping Fuel Is About to Get Cleaner. What It Means for Investors. ($) (LINK)

Is a split in the works between Zambia and its long-time business partner, China? [H/T @michaelxpettis] (LINK)

My New Book, Why I Wrote It, and Where the Money Will Go - by Ben Horowitz (LINK)
Related book (end-of-month release): What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture
The Talk Show With John Gruber: 265: ‘Thompson’s Razor’, With Special Guest Ben Thompson (LINK)

Kosmos with a K Podcast: #7 Tyler Cowen (GMU) on less homework, Swiss science culture, and low university completion rates (LINK)

MartyrMade Podcast #13 – God’s Socialist, pt. 3: Head North, Then Turn Left [H/T @maxolson] (LINK)
In this episode I trace the trajectory of the civil rights movement through the 1960s, and the gradual shift in emphasis and leadership from the stoic southern marchers following Martin Luther King, Jr to the militant Black Power soldiers of the northern ghettos.
The Andromeda Galaxy ate its small friends… twice - by Phil Plait (LINK)

The day our galaxy exploded - by Phil Plait (LINK)

Researchers “Translate” Bat Talk. Turns Out, They Argue—A Lot (LINK)

It’s Possible to Inherit More DNA From One Parent Than the Other - by Sarah Zhang (LINK)

TED Talk: What Bruce Lee can teach us about living fully | Shannon Lee (LINK)

Marcus Aurelius on How to Control the Mind (LINK)


Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Links

"You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think." --Marcus Aurelius

Bill Gates' Professor Hawking Fellowship lecture: Why I think we can predict the future (LINK)

A Value Investor Defends Value Investing (Despite Its Recent Track Record) ($) (LINK)
Joel Greenblatt says if you do good valuation work, the market eventually will agree
Your Stock Trades Go Free but Your Cash Is in Chains - by Jason Zweig ($) (LINK)

The Price of Certainty - by Ian Cassel (LINK)

The China Cultural Clash - by Ben Thompson (LINK)

Leithner Letter No. 241-244 (LINK)

Capital Allocators Podcast: Jonathan Tepper (LINK)
Related book: The Myth of Capitalism
Masters in Business Podcast: Robert Shiller Discusses Narrative Economics (LINK)
Related book: Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
The Peter Attia Drive Podcast: Jason Fried: Optimizing efficiency and work-life balance (LINK)

Ryan Holiday on EconTalk discussing his new book, Stillness Is the Key (LINK)

What I Learned About Life From Buying a Goat on Craigslist - by Ryan Holiday (LINK)

"Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day." --Benjamin Franklin

Saturday, October 5, 2019

Links

"The inflow of money and outflow of money should not be, in our view, attempted to be matched too carefully in this world, because you get investment and business opportunities at times that differ from the times that funds come in. And one of the most important disciplines in running a business or managing investments is to not try to coordinate your actions simply with the availability of cash." --Warren Buffett (1996)

Channels: The Business of Communications periodical, dated November 1986 (Warren Buffett cover) [H/T Linc] (LINK)

Three Big Things: The Most Important Forces Shaping the World - by Morgan Housel (LINK)

How a Public Narrative Can Move Markets - by Frank K. Martin (LINK)

Why Ken Fisher Advertises So Much (LINK)

The Map and the Terrain - by Ben Horowitz (LINK)

Exponent Podcast: 174 — Distracted at Facebook (LINK)

The Ezra Klein Show (podcast): Malcolm Gladwell’s Stranger Things (LINK)
Related book: Talking to Strangers
The Tim Ferriss Show (podcast): #389: Neil deGrasse Tyson — How to Dream Big, Think Scientifically, and Get More Done (LINK)

HBR IdeaCast: 703: Melinda Gates on Fighting for Gender Equality (LINK)

Value Investing with Legends Podcast: Jenny Wallace - Identifying Value at the Summit (LINK)

Mars sounds weird - by Phil Plait (LINK)

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Project Punch Card Conference 2019

This was a great conference last year, and it looks like it will be another great conference this year. For those interested, the Early Bird Discount will be expiring soon. So if you plan on coming, here's a link to more information (including the speaker lineup) and the portal to buy tickets: 


Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Links

Note to readers: I'm traveling with limited internet access over the next week or two, so posting will probably be less frequent than normal.

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"We think that when we make a decision, there ought to be such a margin of safety that it ought to be so attractive that you don’t have to carry it out to three decimal places." --Warren Buffett (1995)

Beachheads and Obstacles - by Ben Thompson (LINK)

Bubble Yet? (The Brooklyn Investor blog) (LINK)

The Absolute Return Letter - October 2019: How to invest in a low growth world (Part 1 of 2) (LINK)

Michael Bloomberg’s Answer to the U.N. General Assembly - by Evan Osnos (LINK)


Kyle Bass: Hong Kong Protests are Chinese Regime’s “Worst Nightmare” in US China Trade War (video) (LINK)

Odd Lots Podcast: How Financial Repression in China Helped Cause the Trade War (LINK)

Hidden Forces Podcast: Financial Fault Lines, Central Banks, and the Law of Unintended Consequences | William White (LINK)

Masters in Business Podcast: Brian Grazer Discusses Imagine Entertainment (LINK)

The James Altucher Show (podcast): 493 -- Frank Abagnale (LINK)

What Got You There Podcast: #158 Brent Beshore (LINK)

The Knowledge Project Podcast -- Jim Collins: Keeping the Flywheel in Motion (LINK)

Externalities: Why We Can Never Do “One Thing” (LINK)

The Messy World of Crime-Solving Genealogists - by Sarah Zhang (LINK)