The Shift From East To West – Chinese Investment
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So You Think You Can Value A Company Do You?
I must admit having fun with value investors is a somewhat akin to shooting fish in a barrel The hubris required to believe that you and you alone actually know what something is worth and that the market will believe you is extraordinary. Consider the case of HP’s acquisition of software maker Autonomy, they thought…
DetailsAsian Markets
I am planning on doing a longer piece on the heterogeneous nature of Asian markets as a function of their cultural and economic background. In the meantime I needed to generate a chart of the comparative performance of the Nikkei, the Hang Seng and the doggy Shanghai Composite over the past year.
S&P500
I like everyone else has been ear bashed by the notion of the fiscal cliff – that is yet another seemingly childish staring contest by people who are supposedly adults. We have seen several of these this year particularly in Europe where the Greeks and the Germans tried to out dickhead each other before actually…
DetailsThe Miracle Of China
Markets are good at telling you what the real story is. Watching price is not like listening to someone tell a story since people place their own filters on the information they receive and then filter it again for public consumption. People tell themselves what they want to hear and what they think will be…
DetailsHarvey Norman And The Real World
I was having tea and toast this morning when I spied this quote from Gerry Harvey…… HARVEY Norman executive chairman Gerry Harvey says industry conditions remain dire and he expects more retailers will go bust next year after the Christmas sales are over. ”There are more retailers currently under pressure than I’ve ever seen ……
DetailsThe Magic Of Magical Thinking…
By mistake I caught an item on the news about the ongoing battle of immunisation which to me seems to be a war being fought by people with a deep understanding of risk and the immunological basis of vaccination and idiots. This graphic sums up the later group. Source – This is Indexed This…
DetailsStill Think You Can Beat The Market?
One of the most maligned ideas in economics is the efficient market hypothesis, perhaps because what is actually a rather technical statement about financial market returns is conflated with some entirely different claim about the superiority of free markets over government dirigisme. The EMH has various forms, but in brief its message is very simple:…
DetailsIron Maiden Star Dickinson’s Message To Entrepreneurs
Wales Online -Speaking at the Entrepreneurs Wales 2012 conference at Cardiff’s City Hall, the Iron Maiden star and founder of Cardiff Aviation urged delegates to make their businesses something their customers could not live without. “The key thing is to figure out how to make yourself invaluable – to be the ultimate virus – to…
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