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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…

Financial Nihilism

By Travis Kling | March 12, 2024 | 38 Comments
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…is a superb Twitter follow @Travis_Kling. As with all of our guest contributors, Travis’s post may not represent the views of Epsilon Theory or Second Foundation Partners, and should not…

An Inconvenient Truce Revisited

By Rusty Guinn | January 3, 2022 | 72 Comments
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…yet been martyred, and Elon Musk, billionaire entrepreneur, publicly suggesting that anyone with different opinions about the proper way to safeguard elections ought to be executed. This is the environment…

Burn. It. Down.

By Ben Hunt | November 28, 2018 | 19 Comments
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Please read the Miami Herald article on Jeffrey Epstein. How a future Trump Cabinet member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime – by Julie Brown for…

Modern Monetary Theory or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the National Debt

By Ben Hunt | January 17, 2019 | 20 Comments
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…US media articles on MMT over the past year, colored by recency (blue older and red more recent). Only 272 unique articles over this span (although 3x from the prior…

Sanders in June: Polarizing…Except in Media

By Rusty Guinn | June 13, 2019 | 8 Comments
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…Examiner article, a Daily Caller article and a NY Post article in the last day alone. Some dozen blogs riffed off of every single one of his Tweets/Facebook posts. We…

I’m a Superstitious Man

By Ben Hunt | August 13, 2019 | 11 Comments
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…What does a movement of refusal and disengagement look like? Start here … https://www.epsilontheory.com/things-fall-apart-part-3-politics/ And then go here … https://www.epsilontheory.com/the-long-now-pt-1/ The Second Foundation hides in plain sight. PDF Download (Paid…

Rounders

By Ben Hunt | September 30, 2015 | 1 Comment
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…stock picker is the discipline to act appropriately on whatever the market is giving you, particularly when you’re being dealt one low conviction hand after another. The hardest thing in…

Core Curriculum

By Ben Hunt | April 28, 2014 | 0 Comments
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…– Willy Loman (“Death of a Salesman”, by Arthur Miller) I’ve had dozens of requests to put together a reading list for Epsilon Theory, and I’ve resisted. There’s something uncomfortable…