Search Results: art of the deal

Reinventing the Financial System

By Marc Rubinstein | June 15, 2021 | 4 Comments
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…money was invented as a solution to a problem in the system of barter. They presumed that before money, people would simply swap goods and services. But barter presented a…

Ever Grande

By Marc Rubinstein | July 26, 2021 | 5 Comments
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…guest contributors, Marc’s post may not represent the views of Epsilon Theory or Second Foundation Partners, and should not be construed as advice to purchase or sell any security. When…

Big Change in the Narrative Weather

By Ben Hunt | October 4, 2021 | 0 Comments
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I’ll start with the conclusion: Our directional equity Narrative signals have switched from bullish to bearish, and our equity trend narrative signals now point to a 0% allocation to directional…

Why Am I Reading This Now? 04.25.22

By Harper Hunt | April 25, 2022 | 0 Comments
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Recent major media stories that feel to us like they’re part of a larger Narrative campaign. Twitter Would Elevate Elon Musk to New Media Mogul Status www.bloomberg.com Global Military Spending…

Seems Like Old Times

By Ben Hunt | May 25, 2022 | 0 Comments
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euro-area gov’t bond yields was the first chart I’d look at in the morning and the last chart I’d look at in the evening. Time to start doing that again….

Why Am I Reading This Now? 05.30.22

By Harper Hunt | May 31, 2022 | 0 Comments
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Recent major media stories that feel to us like they’re part of a larger Narrative campaign. Justice Department to review police response to Uvalde school shooting www.cnn.com Russian oil: EU…

Being Human in a LARPing World

By Ben Hunt | June 8, 2022 | 38 Comments
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…anger. Anger at the deranged, violence-fantasist teenager who murdered children with a military-cartoonified rifle. Anger at the LARPing, violence-fantasist adults who dressed up as a police SWAT team with military-cartoonified…

Why Am I Reading This Now? 06.13.22

By Harper Hunt | June 13, 2022 | 0 Comments
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Recent major media stories that feel to us like they’re part of a larger Narrative campaign. Senate negotiators announce a deal on guns, breaking logjam apnews.com 31 Patriot Front members…

Why Am I Reading This Now? 07.11.22

By Harper Hunt | July 11, 2022 | 0 Comments
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Recent major media stories that feel to us like they’re part of a larger Narrative campaign. Uber broke laws, duped police and built secret lobbying operation, leak reveals www.theguardian.com What’s…

Sauron Remains Undefeated

By Ben Hunt | August 25, 2022 | 51 Comments
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…can contact Brent at  bdonnelly@ spectramarkets .com and on Twitter at @donnelly_brent. As with all of our guest contributors, Brent’s post may not represent the views of Epsilon Theory or Second Foundation Partners,…

The Widening Gyre

By Ben Hunt | September 19, 2022 | 38 Comments
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…Party! TM? By which I mean, can a third political party make a meaningful difference in reducing the stranglehold that our two-party system of Big Politics has on our country?…

UK Pensions Webinar Recording

By Ben Hunt | October 18, 2022 | 0 Comments
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…Monetary Policy and Why Last Week Was a Big Deal. As promised in the webinar, here’s a PDF of that note, outside the paywall and free to distribute. And of…

Epsilon Theory 2022 in Review – Foundation

By Ben Hunt | December 29, 2022 | 3 Comments
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…highlighting Sam Bankman-Fried’s central role. https://www.epsilontheory.com/the-macguffin-part-1/ And then we chronicled the FTX collapse and the design of Bankman-Fried’s fraud better than anyone. https://www.epsilontheory.com/the-macguffin-part-2-the-story-arc-of-sbf-and-ftx/ Sam Bankman-Fried’s con was old Wall Street…

When Does The Story Break?

By Ben Hunt | January 20, 2023 | 0 Comments
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…Adequate Liquidity by striking a sweetheart deal with UC Regents. It’s too early to tell, of course, whether Blackstone will be successful in maintaining the narrative that all is well…

Office Hours Recap 03/10/2023

By Harper Hunt | March 14, 2023 | 0 Comments
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…to play out? Ben’s heard all the 07/08 comparisons, but he told us that, “in my heart of hearts I actually think all those deposits are going to be fine….

Why Am I Reading This Now? 03.20.23

By Harper Hunt | March 20, 2023 | 0 Comments
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Recent major media stories that feel to us like they’re part of a larger Narrative campaign. UBS to buy Credit Suisse for nearly $3.25B to calm turmoil apnews.com Trump says…

Trading is a lot like Poker

By Brent Donnelly | May 16, 2023 | 1 Comment
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…Theory or Second Foundation Partners, and should not be construed as advice to purchase or sell any security. With the passing of Doyle Brunson, it’s a good day to compare…

Men of God in the City of Man, Pt. 7: Mutation

By Rusty Guinn | July 14, 2023 | 154 Comments
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Download a PDF of Men of God in the City of Man, Part 7: Mutation (paid subscribers only) Men of God in the City of Man is a nine-part essay series…

Fostering Reality in an Unreal World

By Brent Donnelly | July 5, 2023 | 1 Comment
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…for skill because a) Buffett had shown skill over many decades already and b) he has access to cheap financing, sweetheart deals, and the best information in the business. If…

Hagakure: The Secret Wisdom of the Samurai

By Brent Donnelly | July 28, 2023 | 5 Comments
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…an important principle in the martial arts which means to maintain psychological and physiological alertness at all times, even after achieving victory in combat or a match. It entails remaining…