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ArIeS. InFp. ChAoTiC NeUtRaL. RaVenClAw. Investor, marketer, performance artist. My investing articles: https://lizardbrain.substack.com/ 

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    1. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 14 Dec 2019
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      8. Jeff Bezos is the John Malone of operating expenses.

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    2. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 14 Dec 2019
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      9. Good and underappreciated sources of information are PACER and state regulatory filings. Discovered $CAOX corporate existence was supposed to be terminated decades ago and the company never got around to updating its Articles of Incorporation.

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    3. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 14 Dec 2019
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      10. Humans are on the brink of achieving functional immortality and time is about to become much less valuable. Interest rates are already reflecting this.

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    4. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 14 Dec 2019
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      11. Using history beyond the past twenty years as your understanding of the limits of what sort of corporate growth rates are possible is like using a dowsing rod to start your own water utility. The world really is different now and what didn’t used to be possible now is.

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    5. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 14 Dec 2019
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      12. The $TSLA and $TSLAQ communities are both rational responses to a situation that is almost nothing but high stakes reflexivity. The two forces are in a game of tug-o-war to shape Tesla’s intrinsic value by influencing its stock price. Lots to learn from watching their duel.

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    6. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 14 Dec 2019
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      13. Value investing and growth/momentum investing both work and it’s important to respect and try to integrate the best ideas from each investing style into your own. Don’t be a cultist to one style. You’re only harming yourself and your family by drinking the Kool-Aid.

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    7. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 14 Dec 2019
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      14. Financial statements are usually the outputs of a company’s value drivers, not the value drivers themselves. Learning adjacent skill sets, such as direct response marketing, can open up opportunities to you that others can’t yet see. I recommend Tested Advertising Methods.

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    8. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 14 Dec 2019
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      15. Knowledge is abundant and by itself is only rarely a competitive advantage. But you can create an edge by synthesizing knowledge to create an understanding that is unique to you.

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    9. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 14 Dec 2019
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      Taking a break now that I’ve worked through my backlog. Will do more later if more likes come, though.

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    10. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 15 Dec 2019
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      16. The strength of the crypto and pot stock bubbles were influenced in part by how aggressively they were hyped by investment newsletters. The size of the industry would surprise most people. The largest co. has a subscriber base in the seven figures.

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      Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 15 Dec 2019
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      17. Company narrative metagame management is one of the primary roles of a good CEO and most do a poor job of it. Managing your narrative is a big aspect of capital allocation and can create or destroy fortunes for your shareholders.

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          18. This is why Elon Musk may be one of the greatest CEOs of all time, ESPECIALLY if you think Tesla is worthless. Narrative management + capital allocation alters intrinsic value.

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        3. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 15 Dec 2019
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          19. Some of the most basic setups are basically just capital structure arbitrage. Have doubled my money on $MAR from the company replacing higher cost equity with lower cost debt. Doesn’t always work out but when it does it’s like putting biz performance on steroids.

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        4. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 15 Dec 2019
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          20. Dispassionate analysis will always have its place but emotion can add a ton of value to an investor’s skill set. Putting yourself in the customer’s shoes can help you share empathy with them, which can tell you a lot about WHY they use the products and services they do.

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        5. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 15 Dec 2019
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          21. Distressed situations are fascinating because they’re just as much about game theory as they are about legal protections and rights. The Vulture Investors by Hilary Rosenberg is a fun book on the subject, for those of us (mostly) locked out of this game.

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        6. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 15 Dec 2019
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          22. Markel’s culture is overrated. The company’s predecessor was literally formed to take advantage of regulatory capture its founder created. Here’s $MKL co-CEO Richie Whitt talking about the scheme. “It was pretty brilliant.” I’ll say. https://www.carriermanagement.com/news/2016/09/19/158932.htm …pic.twitter.com/dtj2JxoEXs

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        7. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 15 Dec 2019
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          23. Alternatively, $MKL culture is underrated because the company has a history of being kinda clever and sneaky. Choose your own adventure. I own $MO. I’m not beyond making money from regulatory capture. 😂

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        8. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 15 Dec 2019
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          24. Economic moats are cool but aren’t the only thing. Commoditized businesses can be great investments despite low AVERAGE returns if the range of possible outcomes is wide enough.

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        9. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 15 Dec 2019
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          25. For example, industries with relatively low short term price elasticity of supply occasionally experience jackpot economics when the service they’re supplying is mission critical. See: shipping.

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          26. In highly reflexive businesses, short sellers are kind of like economic terrorists by reducing the range of possible intrinsic value outcomes.

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        11. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 15 Dec 2019
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          27. The pink sheets are one of the last Wild West markets in, well, the West. The SEC’s new proposed rule may make trading many of the stocks there much more difficult in the next few months. Looking forward to major dislocations, if so. Do the homework now to be ready.

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        12. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 15 Dec 2019
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          28. Businesses that don’t have economic moats yet but are developing them can be better investments than businesses that already do.

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          29. Social hierarchies come natural to humans, so entities that sell perceived access to higher tiers of those hierarchies will always be in demand. Social signaling never dies and neither will lux goods and services.

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        14. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 15 Dec 2019
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          30. The economy is creating more wealthy people and more poor people. The middle gets eaten by the economic meat grinder. The same is true for businesses. Midline is usually the worst place to be. High end and low end are key to the American Carnage portfolio.

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        15. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 15 Dec 2019
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          31. You can run your own John Malone home game. Dividend stocks are for tax deferred accounts and geezers who want an extra $20 per month in income to supplement their SSI. Compounders are for taxable, just gotta hold them til you die so your heirs get a cost basis step-up.

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        16. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 15 Dec 2019
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          32. LTV/CAC analysis can really screw you up if you don’t consider cohorts and scale of spend. Often, your earliest adopters are your biggest fans. If you don’t have an internal growth engine, there’s a good chance you’ll run into diseconomies of scale in customer acquisition.

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        17. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 15 Dec 2019
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          33. Real estate leases serve as a hedge against Wholesale Transfer Pricing. Advertising may be the new rent, but the rent is month-to-month so if you don’t expect to get squeezed it’s your own fault.

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        18. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 15 Dec 2019
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          34. Insurance tends to be an awful business, but a fun way to check the trend in reserving adequacy is converting calendar year loss development triangles into accident year ones. Insurance has goofy accounting so sometimes you can gain insight from the granularity.

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        19. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 16 Dec 2019
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          35. Insurance float is one of the worst kinds of float because what you can do with it is heavily regulated. If someone is starting an insurer for float, run away. There’s a good chance they’re either living decades in the past, planning a scheme, or lacking in creativity.

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        20. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 16 Dec 2019
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          36. Anti-prestige businesses are often not appreciated on the market. There’s often value in companies that cater to non-coastal regions and rural communities.

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        21. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 16 Dec 2019
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          37. Having a list of businesses that should do well in alternate economic environments can be useful to help you move quickly if things change. $FMBL will make a killing if interest rates rise, for example, because of its huge base of non-interest bearing deposits.

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        22. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 16 Dec 2019
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          38. Get on the mailing lists of the major investment newsletter publishers. Sometimes they’ll pitch a small cap stock for months at a time in their advertising, if the return on ad spend is high enough. Between a small float and a million Boomers, interesting things can happen.

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        23. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 16 Dec 2019
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          39. Alternatively, just check out Stock Gumshoe and avoid the spam. There’s a guy there who analyzes the advertisements and outs the stocks they’re pitching. Sometimes the momentum from a repeated pitch alone is enough to be worth a small wager. http://www.stockgumshoe.com 

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        24. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 16 Dec 2019
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          40. Who knows how long it will last with the new proposed SEC rule, but there is an opportunity to create catalysts with Pink Sheet stocks that don’t post their financials publicly. Using shareholder rights laws to get and share them, you can sometimes help market efficiency.

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        25. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 16 Dec 2019
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          41. Structural subordination sounds like a BDSM theme but unfortunately it’s just a credit term mostly relevant in distress scenarios. Well, I guess it’s not that different.

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        26. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 16 Dec 2019
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          42. Jeff Bezos is a better capital allocator than Warren Buffett. $AMZN $BRK

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        27. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 16 Dec 2019
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          43. Stock ownership doesn’t necessarily represent partial business ownership in any realistic sense. He who has the gold makes the rules.

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          44. Not every company is even trying to become more competitive over time. Many exist only to provide sinecures to their agent operators. There’s money to be made in companies that bother to care.

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        29. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 17 Dec 2019
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          45. Massive presentations about a new position are massive not because that much information is relevant, but because it looks more convincing and shows people you “did your homework” Using research as marketing. Very smart.

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        30. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 17 Dec 2019
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          46. The best players in bad industries are worth investigating. If economics are so poor most companies can’t make money, you MAY not have to deal with new players boosting industry capacity. Top dog’s scale can let it wring out profits surrounded by a moat of broken glass.

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        31. Liz‏ @LAForeverHall 17 Dec 2019
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          47. Real estate has some unique advantages in terms of leverage and taxes, but also has unique problems. If you don’t manage it yourself, you’re subject to an agency problem with expense pass throughs. If you do manage it yourself, you’ve bought a part time job.

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