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Thanks for your perspective here! I have some of these Nordic RE plays in my watch list but never pulled the trigger because of their indebtedness after so many years of extremely low interest rates in Europe.

You're right, Egon [ @EgonKuhn ], So, the question is really, what is [almost] dirt cheap, and what is really dirt? I'm trying to find out, over time. Eventually , over a period, I'll find out, over some time. [I have done the same with something as much out of favour at times as banks, it has [net] played out quite well, so far.] [This approach may cause some [minor] scars, but that's the Terms & Conditions of Trial & Error Approach here. [ I'm not even trying here to cover it it up as anything else.]]

"total failure" 'sToNkS'

I took a look at them on TIKR and was a bit alarmed to see that they actually even more debt now than during the last downturn in 2022. Doesn't that worry you a bit? As long as interest rates in Europe remain relatively low, everything will likely be fine. But if we ever see a period of higher interest rates again, there won't be much left over for dividends.

Doubled up my MAT position

In USSR/Russia, many people do love local censorship and live in peace with it. It's just never called "censorship". Many are thrown to jail for "terrorism", "extremism", being a "foreign agent", "mentally ill", which sounds just right for the majority. Most convictions for speech have zero public awareness, because the government controls 100% of mass media. And the same media love to discuss "censorship" in Europe, because everything is transparent in Europe. That's why "bad" Europe "doesn't have free speech".

Ya one of my pet hates is when I see some wall of text from Gemini cut and pasted into a thread as if this is supposed to add insight or back up an argument. All of us on the forum are well able to ask questions to Gemini/Claude etc and get similar answers so I don’t know how it adds anything to the conversation. I think AI is a great tool but should be used as an add-on to people’s investment research not a replacement.

Added to TSM and STX

Speech is conduct, which is obvious even in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exceptions

180k shares traded today with most of that at the close.

Sold my AMUN.PA (Amundi S.A.) position

I think you missed my point. The point is, who cares about a "store of value"? If I did, it would be in the form of T-Bills which aren't very good but at least the price is relatively stable. Otherwise if you're "storing value" for a particular need or time period, BTC is a complete failure. If you're not storing value for anything in particular, stocks and real estate do just fine.

By removing a stipulation of a minimum threshold of time, all you're saying is that "anything that can go down can't be a store of value" which would exclude everything....gold, t-bills, USD. Because it IS possible to have an unrealized loss in any of those items after the point the of acquiring. Having a reasonable minimum threshold for a period of time we're measuring the storing of value across allows for that natural variation in each while still holding them accountable to inflation resistance over an intermediate/longer term. Gold is highly volatile. It was up 50+% at points last year and is down 25+% from that peak. Obviously it wasn't a "store of value" for anyone who bought int he last 2-3 months...but its intended to be a "long term" store of value. Not a store of value over 2-3 months. And over rolling 5- or 10-year periods, it tends to do a decent job. Bitcoin isn't any different - but is more volatile at this time given the emerging nature of the technology, the perfect inelasticity of its protocol, and the lack of understanding of it by market participants/speculators. Like Gold - any short-term period can deviate from that "store" narrative. But over rolling 3- or 5-year periods (cuz rolling 10- doesn't provide much observation yet...) it has worked pretty well over the majority of those varying time periods.

Fund is up ~80% as of 2Q26. Going to put out my 2Q26 letter soon.

Bought a few hundred extra shares of JOE. Hoping to do that every week the next few months if price remains here.

I've started to get back to my Swedish Real Estate basket these days. Today I've got filled on a few shares today of WIHL.STO - Wihlborgs Fastigheter AB.

This is the absolute worst. Im already completely tired of having to engage with people whom think like this. If youre using AI to make investments, I dont want to waste my time discussing them with you LOL Like dont get me wrong, it's a helpful tool at times, as a cog, but making your judgment calls based on "what Ai says" is pure stupidity.

Add llm's to the mix and now every investor can spew bolded bullet points about how company xyz's moat is invincible, or condensing 10k's and earnings call transcripts into 5 key takeaways, thus missing any real understanding or nuance. I actually think next few years could be a fruitful experience for the genuinely good investors.

I really have no attachment to LA. Beautiful beach and girls, but that's pretty much it. It seems like the place where young investors go if they want their passion for investing to die. The caliber of talent I've met in the brief two days I was in NYC.. Man, it re-invigorated my passion for investing. I felt boy-ish wonder that left me after I was 14, felt like I was in college again.

Good point. I have noticed on the YouTube type investing shows/podcasts they all mention the same tired points or most obvious moats on stocks and act like it’s a big secret that they constantly explain over and over on all the different shows. Like they are all only learning from each other. I get the sense that there is not much reading or real work going on out there. If my kids (7yo - 13yo) are any indication, deep reading is about to become a very rare super power if it is not already.

You know there was another Chinese place on Frederick Douglas Blvd that had the same kind of set up as the one on 116th street - Thick glass barrier between the customers where you push the money in a slot and the same terrible quality oil for frying (you can tell by the smell), which was exactly the flavor I was looking for. I stopped going to the place on Frederick Douglas because drug dealers would be dealing inside the restaurant in front of me while I waited for my order. The Chinese guys didn't care because there was that thick glass barrier and whatever happens on the other side, well... I always disliked taking the 7 train. What am I gonna do, go watch the Metropolitans play at the Shea? Come on!

What's the litmus test for "being crowded?" Fairfax gets almost no mention outside of this site, but that's rare for an equity. At the same time if you spend time on X.com (I no longer do) it's not hard to find yourself in some reinforcing algo cycle of being pitched value stocks (many of which I see on here) by specific accounts. So it does make me wonder.....is the retail market becoming more.....influencer, algo, efficiently driven "influeicient"? And how is the "algo push" bleeding into other areas (this site etc.) of idea generation?

You live in LA which is like against suburb and not a real city. Sorry.

NY is like 200 countries packed in a few square miles. If you can’t get it in NY it either isn’t worth having or it does not exist.

This place is terrible. Cheap Chinese food for Gwai- Lo’s. Check out Flushing