April 1863: These are the whipping scars of Gordon, a Louisiana slave who escaped his owner & took refuge in a Unionist army camp where this photo was taken.
(My great-aunt Jane was 5 at the time. She died when my dad was 10. History's a lot closer than we like to imagine)
I always find great value, and amazing nuggets of wisdom in Sahil's threads.
This one is no different.
"Don't chart your course based on someone else's map for your life."
This spoke to me on many levels.
Read and be enriched...
Keith Harris, investment banker, financier, senior corporate finance and takeover advisor, who previously worked at Morgan Grenfell, Drexel Burnham Lambert, Apax Partners, and HSBC Investment Bank, is Chairman of Semper Fortis Esports due to launch on AQSE later this month. #AQSE
@dailygringe Happy day today as #ARW (I hold) finds itself on the end of a tasty takeover proposal. Private equity must be reading @dailygringe notes...the small and mid cap financials are awash with other deep value stocks which like ARW which could attract interest.
Thank you to @martenandco who has released another excellent report showing how the Montanaro European Smaller Companies Trust has generated impressive returns in a difficult market.
Read more about it here: https://t.co/VukuOLW1U8
#MontanaroAM#european#trust
I can say it on Twitter as my kids don't follow me. This is mad. My 20 year old daughter is in tears every night and day on the phone and it is wearing. They are in huge pain at Universities. Please see sense and let the strong get it and move on.
@F15JCM@LukeJohnsonRCP Talked with a board member at Public Health Scotland. As an audit committee member he has asked them to look carefully at the "statistics".
MW will release a new Short tomorrow pre-market. It’s a “company” that’s a complete stock promotion and makes $NKLA look like Microsoft in comparison. Shockingly the sell-side is positive on it. Would love to hear @WilfredFrost try to explain that away tomorrow.
10pm pub closing not good enough. People will just go on to house parties. Need a mandatory 10:45pm National Crisis Bedtime. Teeth done by 10:40, light off 10:44. No you can't have a glass of water you should have thought of that before.
#TSL Spectacular valuation for ThinkSmart primarily due to 10% holding n AfterPay. 62.42p/share NAV at end June; and Afterpay share price up 21% since June. Call/Put option in place for 2023/24 to realise the stake. CoB share price 37.5p