Search Results: art of the deal

Snikt

By Ben Hunt | February 9, 2016 | 0 Comments
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…about the issue (much less the thirtieth), many market participants will start trading around the position. Now the truth is that this outcome worked faster than I thought it would,…

I Know It Was You, Fredo

By Ben Hunt | December 8, 2015 | 0 Comments
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…“The Godfather, Part II” (1974) There’s no more dramatic moment in all of movies than the Havana club scene in Godfather, Part II, where Michael overhears Fredo blurting out that…

What a Good-Looking Question: Things that Don’t Matter #2

By Rusty Guinn | March 31, 2017 | 1 Comment
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…in particular. Local sports talk radio is even more of an oddity, since on the clear fundamental question, that is, which team everyone supports, practically all parties involved agree. Lest…

Controlling Your Cartoon: Nike and the Art of the Meme

By Ben Hunt | September 10, 2018 | 0 Comments
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written a lot recently (Things Fall Apart, part 1 and Things Fall Apart, part 2) about the political polarization of America. Or, to use the 10-dollar phrase, what happens in a…

The Zeitgeist | 2.8.2019

By Rusty Guinn | February 8, 2019 | 1 Comment
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This is our feature of the 10 most on-Narrative (i.e. interconnected, highly similar) stories in financial media. It’s not a list of best articles, or articles we think are most…

In the Flow – The Silver Age of Central Bankers

By Ben Hunt | April 1, 2019 | Comments Off on In the Flow – The Silver Age of Central Bankers
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down (and vice versa) … as strong of a relationship as you’ll ever see in a chart. Where’s supply and demand in this chart? Where’s OPEC policy? It’s in those…

The Lost Art of the Jawbone

By Rusty Guinn | July 7, 2020 | 4 Comments
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…but pretty close to airtight. We’ve done a good job in the United States. Larry Kudlow to CNBC on February 25, 2020 But the Chinese Communist Party? Et tu? China…

For Leon Black is an Honorable Man

By Ben Hunt | January 26, 2021 | 10 Comments
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…many to have everything in the Epstein vaults published on the internet. Giant flush of a lot of hypocritical elites, both parties. We could start fresh after that morality play…

The Intentional Investor #6: Daniel Crosby

By Harper Hunt | June 11, 2024 | 1 Comment
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…bassist to leading voice in the world of investing psychology, discussing the importance of setting healthy boundaries, letting life’s phases run their course, and the art of translating complex ideas…

Narrative and Metaverse, Pt. 4 – Carrying the Fire

By Ben Hunt | August 17, 2022 | 16 Comments
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PDF download (subscribers only): Narrative and Metaverse, Pt. 4: Carrying the Fire Narrative and Metaverse Part 1: The Living Word Part 2: Gain of Function Part 3: The Luther Protocol Part

All that Glitters

By Ben Hunt | May 9, 2014 | 0 Comments
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…Sorry, but I just don’t think it’s that big of a deal from a markets perspective. Russia is going to control Sevastapol, and everyone – including Obama and Merkel and…

Yen Strengthens Below 102

By Ben Hunt | February 3, 2014 | 0 Comments
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…most crowded trade in the world right now, so a strengthening of the Yen to break below the focal point is a big deal for market game-playing behavior. The Yen…

Financial “Innovation” Returns to ABS Market

By Ben Hunt | July 20, 2016 | 0 Comments
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On Monday, Verizon Wireless successfully securitized more than $1 billion in cellphone contracts and sold the notes into the Asset-Backed Securities (ABS) market. Here’s the Reuters article describing the deal….

The Zeitgeist | 1.22.2019

By Rusty Guinn | January 22, 2019 | 0 Comments
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This is our feature of the 10 most on-Narrative (i.e. interconnected, highly similar) stories in financial media. It’s not a list of best articles, or articles we think are most…

Vanguard Doesn’t Care About Your Trade War

By Ben Hunt | June 11, 2019 | 0 Comments
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…not a list of best articles or articles we think are most interesting … often far from it. But for whatever reason these are articles that are representative of some…

Is This The Real Life?

By Ben Hunt | July 22, 2020 | 1 Comment
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…(weeks to months); don’t know and don’t know for an investment (months to years). To explain what I mean by the slightly less short answer, let’s start with that email…

Schrödinger’s Price

By Ben Hunt | October 30, 2020 | 0 Comments
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…real-life world of investing in markets, we frequently deal with real-life cats that are both alive AND dead at the same time. Case in point, the largest liquid market for…

Manheim Steamroller

By Rusty Guinn | April 26, 2021 | 16 Comments
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supply/demand and pricing is generally good for auto dealerships and the related industry infrastructure, you are probably right. But there will also be leveraged dealerships who participate heavily in inventory…

The Shift to Dovish

By Ben Hunt | June 4, 2021 | 0 Comments
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We published our June Narrative Monitors earlier this week, and they’re worth a look, particularly the Central Bank Monitor. We’ve seen a shift in the dominant narrative archetype from Hawkish…

An Inconvenient Truce

By Rusty Guinn | January 3, 2022 | 72 Comments
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…parts: the motte and the bailey. Complicated stuff, I know. The motte is a steep hill or raised earthworks upon which a small keep or fort is installed. The bailey…