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and now, a brief rant about historic valuation

Sorry, have to get this off my chest. One of the dumbest thing’s I’ve seen this entire summer (no small feat) is this thing where Deutsche Bank says that the combination of stocks, bonds and real estate haven’t been as overvalued as they are now in 200 years. It’s all here if you need to see…

My Review of the Goldman Sachs Elevator Book

I’ve read a lot of books this summer, some informative and some highly entertaining. Not many of them were able to be both at the same time. The book Straight to Hell, by John LeFevre of @GSElevator fame, managed to pull this particular dual mandate off. My review of the book appears in Barron’s this weekend,…

Did a Black Swan Fund really just “make a billion dollars”?

The Wall Street Journal ran a story sourced by “a person familiar with the matter” wherein a Black Swan fund – which seeks to profit from extreme outlier negative events – has earned a billion dollars for the year, with most of the gain happening during the volatility of last week’s market correction. This is…