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This week @writes_sweeney and I kick back. Inspired by Jeff Bezos, and his recent jaunt to St Barts, I reveal my 20h fast and avocado regime. To me, longevity and contrarian investing are bedfellows. Chris shakes his head in disbelief. But discipline, do you have the discipline
Chris has his runner's legs on and wants to know more about what's knocking the cap mkts this week. Bonds, not James, but the ongoing disturbance in the US Treasury market are discussed. Better construct an inventory of ideas than trade against the trend. Check your premises!
This week we take on The Raiders of the Lost Ark, via Cathy Wood's flailing tech fund, and ask why markets generate mysticism to create retail super-star managers and why their unwieldy funds often hit the skids.
Shorting is this week's focus. Why do it? The epic squeeze of Volkswagen in the midsts of the chaos of October 2008, remember when it was largest co in the world? Utter Chaos. Yes, it really happened and it makes the punk reddit kids seem like angels.
I lavish praise on John Armitage, a legendary British hedge fund manager who stopped shorting entirely. The cautionary tale of AW Jones, the manager who first brought L/S strategies to the public's attention, is examined. You wont believe the paradox of what befell him in 1969.
No one is spared. I loved Ken Fisher's book Superstocks but v less so the man himself. The gloves come off and at the end I even confess that I'm seeing a re-awakening in the gold sector. Really? Is that possible? Just don't tell anyone I said so...

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Right, let's begin
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And just cause you don't see me
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And just because I'm in Heaven
Doesn't mean I don't Care
One day we'll meet...You and I
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And I'll be standing in the light
I've always been watching you...
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The power - the supremacy - of the Chinese state "they got this"...
The allure of buying the washout in Chinese tech.
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The shock of bond yields
The ignorance of the collapsing spread between the short and the long end ?
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