Earnings report from financial firms are good bellwethers of the economy. Tracking each category gives us a picture of how each sub-sector of the economy is doing:
1. Consumer credit
2. Consumer and commercial banking
3. Investment banks
4. Specialty finance
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Every stock pitch should be able to be boiled down to three things:
1. Consensus view
2. Your variant view
3. What event will make your variant view the consensus view.
@splinter0n The truth is most of these contracts are poorly written and there’s always a loophole to be exploited - no such thing as a decentralized oracle, it doesn’t work
@bucketshopcap Finance jobs are increasingly being replaced by AIs + lots of funding in AI = expansion and job creation in AI.
Probably pays a lot better for less hours worked as well
Looking for good short candidates with these characteristics:
1. Complicated/geographically-exposed supply chains
2. Discretionary good/exposed to expansionary capex
3. Already high valuation (70th percentile fwd valuation vs historical)
4. High olev
Maybe autos, possibly $TSLA
We calculated that post Trump “put” today, the tariff mix is actually worse —China exports more consumer goods to US than other countries, so boosting that (to 125%) relative to others will boost the hit to consumption goods.
Scrolling through my bookmarks. And I think this is an important point in the world we live in now. There are too many ever-changing variables - best to limit the no. of variables to look at to avoid analysis paralysis.
16/On amount of analysis:
Soros said that “...I don’t like working. I do the absolute minimum that is necessary to reach a decision."
He focused on analyzing as little as possible, and knew a little about a lot of things.
At first glance, US reciprocal tariffs is going to be bad for sports apparel and footwear producers $LULU, $ON, $NKE, $ADS, $DECK
Where most of their products are produced (VN, CN, ID, KH, BD, LK), reciprocal tariffs are 32-54%. Your favorite pair of trainers and yoga pants are gonna be significantly more expensive.