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I think the easiest way is to take the entire balance sheet and subtract anything that’s isn’t necessary to run the business (excess cash, excess investments ) - that’s your invested capital. You can calculate this from both sides (asset or liability side) of the balance sheet.

Yes, this is hotpot. We got various meats, Chinese mushrooms, fish cakes and fish and veggies/salad to boil. It has been a family tradition for us on Thanksgiving. Had ours a day early because my wife is on call on Thanksgiving (although no call yet )

We don’t like Turkey so we do this:

The much simpler solution for me would be just to distribute the Porsche 911 owned by VW to shareholders. Problem solved.

This is based on questionable methodology. Note they seem to be counting emissions from investments. What that means is that if you buy an oil stock for example, the proportional carbon emissions from this oil business count towards your carbon footprint. No doubt that this results in the majority of Carlos Slim’s or Bill Gates carbon footprint. So if you had large investments, you could live like a Hermit crab in cave in a mountain with no electricity and you would have a large carbon footprint by that methodology. This makes no sense to me.

It was either that , or MSFT takes their employees and leaves a worthless shell, which would probably been acquired by MSFT resulting in the same outcome. MSFT owns this thing either way, that much is clear.

@John Hjorth - yes the loss on PAH3 is moderate, but still stings. The reason for the sale is that I am more and more concerned about the Chinese competition affecting Porsche as well. The VW business certainly is affected, not just in Chine, but also soon in Europe. There just is too much competition with cars. I am now poking around putting the funds to work into something similar like Daimler Truck, AGCO or CNHI where there is less competition and the stocks are almost as cheap. All those have issues with cyclicality though. (FWIW, I own a little of CNHI already)

I think one also could be missing that AI models become a commodity - everyone has them and uses them -nobody has an edge, similar to what happened with PC's actually. In PC's only a few business like Intel or MSFT profited because they had an monopoly position. So maybe NVDA can benefit LT but much seems priced in. Having just another language model offered in a cloud may just be an commodity. I do think durable advantages can be had to applying AI to specific problems using proprietary datasets.

USB and my smallish trading position on MANU. Bailed out of PAH3 at a loss

The USD is not a solution for them. For once it will create a scarcity of cash and pot. blow up their banking system (or what remained of it). Milei needs to put a central bank leader in place who has some credibility and pull a Hjalmar Schacht like miracle. Inflation is always a political problem and with new leadership it's his job to address this. Happy to be wrong here. In any case, this will be interesting.

Adopting the USD instead of the Peso imo is already a very bad idea, imo.

Holding coal stocks forever probably won't yield great results. MP is going to do what he has been doing all along going for deep value bet's and churning them quickly. Regarding fee structure, one can't run an small international small cap value fund on 0.25-0.5%. I think 1% is the minimum I would expect and 2% while high isn't exactly unheard of either.

Argentinian stocks are up big time: A lot of bad takes on twitter that socialism is to blame but the former right wing governments weren't much better. hopefully Javier Milei can make a difference, but this won't be easy as the rot is deep.

Now this could get very interesting : https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/argentina-votes-for-new-president-to-confront-economic-crisis-99b73b86?mod=world_lead_story https://archive.ph/el0nv Javier Milei, a Self-Described Anarcho-Capitalist, Is Elected President of Argentina The libertarian outsider, who says he will upend years of free-spending populist rule, defeats ruling party candidate Sergio Massa

I recall this stuff having some quality issues a while ago: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fireball-whiskey-recall_n_6067486

Archive.ph version of above article from Bloomberg. https://archive.ph/nU3Tg Clearly, the general tone from the meeting was “cold as ice”.

I wasn’t that big of a fan of “Reptile” although I like Benicio de Toro’s work. “They cloned Tyrone “ was imo a way better movie released by Netflix.

Full disclosure https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/a-ransomware-gang-wanted-its-victim-to-pay-up-so-it-went-to-the-sec-803cf786?mod=tech_lead_story

ChatGPT sucks for math. Totally unusable unless you use it in combo with a math engine like Wolfram, but then why not just use the math engine by itself.

I am sort of sad to see him go though. He did have valid contrarian views in many cases. The biggest surprise for me was that he had only ~$200M in AUM left, not exactly big boy territory any more. I guess that was not enough to keep the lights on and that’s why he shut down his fund.

Chanos is quitting? Must be close to the top.

Suicide? It’s just a job. Worst case, he just going to resign. He can pick from a dozen better paying job with his experience and connections.

When you watch the meeting videos, it is clear that Biden and Xi dislike each other. Biden also does not give a diplomatic damn about calling a dictator what he is, make of it what you want. I guess the good news is that both side still talk, but there are very clear lines in the sand.

I forgot who it was, but there was one podcast guest who suggested to value companies based on their "economic footprint" rather than market cap with metrics like revenue, equity, employees, profits etc and construct a value index that way. So far everything I have seen has underperformed market cap weighting so....

Not scaleable. Imagine people buying such a vehicle in size, the smaller caps would probably increase way above the fair value. Even if people would dump a lot of money into an equal weighted index funds, it would lead to distortions for lower caps and small float stocks. It is amazing how well the simple low cost market weighted index fund works by harvesting essentially the wisdom of the crowds. I do agree with @TwoCitiesCapital that the most practical way of reducing the impact of the Mag7 is to buy an equal weighted index fund right now.