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5th June, 2025
No Pain, No Gain
Everyone loves a good stock chart. Up and to the right, all green candles and glory! But that is rar...
30th May, 2025
Swing For The Fences
Babe Ruth is one of baseball’s greatest players, but he also led the league in strikeouts. Over his ...
23rd May, 2025
Don’t Trade The Lull
Making money in the market is hard. Not just because spotting an undervalued stock is tough, or beca...
16th May, 2025
Four Inches Into The Future
In a 2014 interview, Lloyd Blankfein, then CEO of Goldman Sachs and part-time Bond villain lookalike...
8th May, 2025
Capital Is Potential Energy
When people talk about capital, they tend to mean stuff: factories, patents, cash, code. Things you ...
2nd May, 2025
Nurturer Vs Exploiter
In his book The Unsettling of America, Wendell Berry sketches two archetypes: the nurturer and the e...
24th April, 2025
Cheaper, Better or New
Most analysis starts with the financials. Earnings, margins, returns, and all that jazz. They’re imp...
17th April, 2025
A Global Reordering
Trump’s trade war is dumb in almost every way. The tariffs are crude, cruel, and unfair. The executi...
11th April, 2025
Capital > Money
Most people think of capitalism as a system about markets, competition, or even greed. But at its co...
3rd April, 2025
A Free Sandwich and a Missed Opportunity
This year’s federal budget landed with all the usual fanfare, with tax cuts and other ‘cost-of-livin...