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15th August, 2025
Growth Gone Wrong
Growth is often seen as synonymous with success in business. A company that expands rapidly, increas...
8th August, 2025
Pessimism Doesn’t Pay
Strawman member Bushmanpat kicked off an interesting thread this week, pointing out how pessimistic ...
1st August, 2025
Nothing New To Say
I was looking through the archives and realised that since starting Strawman, I’ve written something...
24th July, 2025
The Art Of Waiting
Investing, for all its spreadsheets and metrics, is largely an emotional game. We dress it up in the...
18th July, 2025
Simple Beats Clever
Tune into any results call and you’ll hear plenty of smart-sounding questions (and a lot of alpha-ma...
10th July, 2025
The Stimulus Delusion
Modern economics is littered with ideas that are, frankly, wrong. Not obviously so, which is partly ...
4th July, 2025
Not Too Big, Not Too Small
We tend to lump stocks into two camps: small and risky, but with tantalising upside, or big and bori...
27th June, 2025
Beware The Helpers
In his 2005 shareholder letter, Warren Buffett shared a neat little parable about a wealthy family c...
19th June, 2025
The 3 Levers Of Growth
There are really only three levers a business can pull to juice its profits: price, cost, or volume....
17th June, 2025
Reflections of a Microcap Fundie
MY LIFE IN MICROCAP LAND—APPROACH WITH WHIP AND CHAIR As some of you may know, and many of you may n...