The Falling Knife
Harvey SawikinWelcome to my Substack, where I will write about investing, marriage and family, culture, and random topics. All subscription money will be donated to The Human Fund (sorry, that's for Seinfeld fans). Really, to a good cause.
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Adaptation or Capitulation?
The talk of the value investor community last week was the H1 letter from Fundsmith, a U.K.-based manager with $30 billion in assets. They lost 2.9%, but what was notable wasn’t the return but founder Terry Smith’s announcement of a major s...
“If You Need More Money, Make More Money”
The title is a quote from my college friend’s late father, Abner Z., which has popped into my head many times over the last 45 years. It’s a statement that resonates with me but is so loaded with context that it may even be offensive to som...
Should You Fire an Employee the Minute You Even Think of It?
Someone I know was agonizing over a firing, and I passed on a piece of advice I’d once received: “If you ever think seriously about firing an employee, do it immediately.” I felt bad saying it, since it sounds harsh, but in my experience —...
My Obsolete Jobs
Sometimes I think back on my first two corporate jobs out of college in the 1980s, and that 50-90% of how I spent my days would now be done by computers in seconds.1 I can sort of understand that about my first job, assistant media planner...
Actually, What Is an Art Investment?
In my last post, I argued that art can be a good investment, and even if it doesn’t keep up with the S&P 500, its psychic pleasures may make up for the underperformance. I got some pushback in the comments from older people who’ve accumulat...
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