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Controlled Greed Investor's Blog Posts
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Random Thoughts, Thanksgiving Eve 2009
11/25/09
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Tomorrow is Thanksgiving here in the US, markets will be closed and reopen for Friday. Trading is likely to be light the rest of this week. So what follows are random thoughts, in no particular order. Some contradict each other -- but that's the way it goes when we're in the fog of war.
This bear mar...
DTV
MSFT
Five for the Weekend #67
11/20/09
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Let's get right to it -- five items you might check out over the next couple of days.
I reported selling half my DirecTV Group (DTV) stake this week, when the stock doubled from my entry price. My remaining half remains an important holding for me. John Malone said this week he wouldn't rule out DT...
DTV
Selling Some of My DirecTV Group
11/17/09
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I bought DirecTV Group (DTV) in 2005 at $15.50. This afternoon I sold half of my stake at $31.00. The shares ended the day at $31.83. Long-time Controlled Greed readers know I sell half of any position when it doubles, so that's what happened today.DTV clocked in at about 10% of portfolio assets at t...
Jim Puplava Interviews Rachel Benepe of First Eagle Gold Fund
11/16/09
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If you're interested in Jean-Marie Eveillard's approach to value investing and using gold as insurance, check out part 2 of the third hour of Jim Puplava's Financial Sense Newshour.It includes an interview with Rachel Benepe, manager of the First Eagle Gold Fund. She describes the First Eagle philoso...
Gold Bugs Remain Bullish (Which May Not Be Surprising)
11/16/09
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Peter Brimelow, who covers the world of investment newsletters for MarketWatch, reports today that gold bugs don't think the latest move up for gold is over. A bit:
But The Privateer argues that this past correction in gold, from
mid-March 2008 to late September 2009, "was longer lasting and deeper
t...
Five for the Weekend #66 -- NOT!
11/13/09
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I'm on deadline for several non-blogging projects, so there's no installment of Five for the Weekend this week. This has been the case more than I'd like over the past months. Yet at least it is occurring with not too much going on with regards to specific investments.I will say, again, that I believ...
CHEUY
GLD
Zimbabwe: The Ultimate Turnaround Story?
11/10/09
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Back before the financial panic, regular readers of Controlled Greed know I was intrigued by the idea of an Africa-wide investment vehicle. The reasons included things like the Dark Continent was growing nicely and could be an emerging market play with global investors focused on Mainland China and I...
GLD
Dizard: Pointers Suggest Higher Gold Price Long Term
11/09/09
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In his new Financial Times column, John Dizard writes that the gold bull seemed to be tiring. Until the news of India buying IMF gold gave the gold price a speed-like rush.Yet Dizard sees higher prices for the metal over the longer term -- and his view is based on factors ASIDE from India:It is not c...
Jeff Everett, Templeton and A Hard Truth About Mutual Funds
11/09/09
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This Financial Post profile of Jeff Everett, formerly with Templeton and now running his own outfit called EverKey Global Partners, is good stuff.
Mutual funds are often victims of their own success. Investment returns can attract more and more money from investors, which can lead to creating more a...
Five for the Weekend #65
11/06/09
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Big business news today is US unemployment crossing the 10% threshold. Yet the true unemployment rate (the way the US Government used to calculate it) has been above the mid-teens for a while now. Now let's dig beneath the usual headlines for five items you might check out over the next couple of day...
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Cundill Manager Surprised by Chrysler's Cash Flow
11/05/09
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I haven't followed the Cundill folks as closely since Peter Cundill retired a while back. But this Dow Jones wire report caught my eye today. David Tiley, one of Cundill's more prominent managers these days, is surprised by Chrysler's improved cash flow.Cundill owns a significant stake in Exor, an It...
Alice Schroeder on Buffett's Burlington Buy
11/04/09
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Lots of media buzz about Berkshire Hathaway's proposed purchase of Burlington
Northern Santa Fe. I don't pay as much attention to Warren Buffett's buys and sells as many do. Because while I admire the man enormously, his assets are so huge that much of the investing universe is unavailable to him.I c...
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India Buys IMF Gold
11/03/09
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As Jim Grant has pointed out repeatedly over the years, no one can predict the future. But I wonder if one day we'll look back and see the news that India has bought half of the IMF's gold stash is a bigger historical milestone than Warren Buffett buying a railroad company.Or maybe that's an apples-t...
Five for the Weekend #64
10/30/09
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This has been a busy week for me, as far as my non-blogging life goes (which has been the case for about a year now). And I spent all day today (Friday) in a workshop/seminar. So I have no idea what the "big news" is out there, if anything is. But I still have five items for your consideration if you...
KTCC
Guest Post from Saj Karsan
10/28/09
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The following post is a guest post by Saj Karsan, who regularly writes for Barel Karsan, a blog dedicated to finding and discussing current value investments.
As the market has risen throughout most of this year, many market observers have noted that P/E values are looking rather inflated from
a h...
Christopher Wood Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal
10/27/09
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Today's Wall Street Journal runs an interesting piece by Christopher Wood of CLSA Ltd. in Hong Kong. This is up on RealClearMarkets.com, so it should be available to non-WSJ.com subscribers.Wood, you may recall, was recently interviewed in Barron's. And he pens a newsletter called Fear & Greed, w...
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Microsoft Has More to Go
10/26/09
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In retrospect, buying Microsoft (MSFT) earlier this year for $18.39 was a no-brainer. The company has an undeniably strong cash position and even pays a decent dividend. The stock has been in the upper $20s last I checked due to results announced last Friday.Most of MSFT's good news stems from aggres...
Five for the Weekend #63
10/23/09
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Here we are at the end of another week, which means it is time for five items for your consideration. Let's go.
Allan Meltzer writes a compelling op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal: "As long ago as the 1960s, then French President Charles de Gaulle
complained that the U.S. had the "exorbitant privi...
CEF
GLD
Notable Notes from the Value Investing Congress
10/22/09
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Jonathan of the indispensable Cheap Stocks blog posts some notes from the Value Investing Congress. Among the impressive cast is David Einhorn:Einhorn opened his presentation with his thoughts on the importance of
learning from bad decisions. He cited his 2005 IRA Sohn conference
presentation on the ...
CSWC
Capital Southwest 2009 Investor Presentation
10/20/09
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A reader and fellow shareholder in Capital Southwest (CSWC) recently commented that he'd like to hear more about the company. My response was (and is) that I would, too.But CSWC management shuns the press and to my knowledge has never done conference calls. They put out quarterly reports and the very...
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