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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| Issues | 110 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 6 days ago |
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The Stupidity of Crowds?
Yesterday I popped into St. Agnes Library on Amsterdam Avenue where, as a teenager, I read my way through most of their John Updike novels and all their P.G. Wodehouse. With the A/C in my home office failing and in murderous NYC heat, I dec...
Do I Know a Bubble When I See One?
You don’t meet a lot of rich pessimists, or so they say. Well, I play golf with one, a retired Wall Street pro who now trades for his own account. In the cart the other day, I was telling him about my last Substack, where I argued that fund...
SpaceX, PE, VC, and Quacking Ducks
There’s an old business expression, “Feed the ducks when they’re quacking,” a cousin to “The customer is always right.” While this may be good advice in some fields — “Fast Fashion” is built on it — in the investment world it’s a practice t...
Bonus Post: My Favorite Rock Bios
I’m deep in the new Rolling Stones biography, which together with the World Cup have occupied my writing time, so I’m reposting one of my first Substacks, which few have seen. The new Stones book could eventually get on this list, but for n...
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...
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