Price is What You Pay. Value is What You Get. Part II
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in aroom alone.”Pascal I used the quote from Pascal above to close out a piece a couple ofmonths ago. In it, I lamented that investors seem obsessed with alwaysfinding monocausal explanations for...From Adam Smith and Isaac Newton to Helicopter Money and Superstrings: Crises, Niels Bohr, and the Nash Bargaining Solution
We believe that it is almost a universal belief that the Day After the pandemic our societies will be operating under new norms. The rising debts follow a parallel path with the rising geopolitical rivalry. The declining educational standards also seem to follow a...Market Perspective, Verisimilitude, and Punishment: Lessons from Euripides’s Electra
During a recent trip overseas, a client asked me why I admire Edmund Burk. The question should not have caught me by surprise as we frequently discuss the impact of politics on the markets, but my immediate reflection/answer was to quote W. B. Yeats whose poem “The...Current Thoughts on Earnings and Sentiment
“It takes the character to sit with all that cash and to do nothing. I didn’t get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.” – Charlie Munger Earnings season for the first quarter of 2021 has just begun and it promises to be one of the most interesting and...Reopening & Execution Risks: Earnings Expectations and the New Wave of Innovations in Historical Perspective
The reflation trade that started in late 2020 and uplifted the fortunes of banks, energy, and small cap stocks might be experiencing a pause lately. However, as shown below, the earnings expectations for the full year are robust and strong. The fact that the leisure,...Sign Up for Our Publications
