29 May 2019
odey total return fund
It’s never enough
As Lily Tomlin once said, "No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up."
22 May 2019
total return fund
Turkeys Twizzled
“Watching the establishment try and take down the Brexit Party is like watching the music and publishing industries in 2000 floundering in the face of internet-created competition. Tory and Labour are going the same way as Our Price.” - Dominic Frisby, Twitter, 20 May 2019.
14 May 2019
pyrford global total return fund
Little by little, we went insane
Corporate resources can only ever be finite. But when a government runs out of capital, it simply borrows more. Or taxes more. Or both. At least for as long as it has access to credit by way of maintaining the confidence of the bond market.
9 May 2019
jeroen bos
The psychotic freakshow rolls on
Jonathan Demme’s masterpiece The Silence of the Lambs forms part of the answer to perhaps the best pub quiz question ever. Namely: which three films are the only ones to have won the so-called ‘royal flush’ at the Oscars (i.e. Academy Awards for best film; best director; best actor; best actress; best screenplay) ? Which were the other two ? Ah, that would be telling.