A chokepoint, for as long as I have watched them, was a place. Oil, urea, the premium on a hull passing Hormuz.
This morning the FT asked whether US Treasuries have become one.
Not the haven. The chokepoint. What do you flee to when the exit is named like the trap?
The First episode of the Made in Japan podcast is finally out. (Link in reply)
We felt our interview with Philip was going to be the perfect first episode as an introduction to Japanese markets.
Over the last 2 decades, he’s seen the country as a lawyer, investment banker and now an investor. He’s worked with truly the pioneers of Japanese activist investing like Yoshiaki Murakami of M&A Consulting and Seth Fischer of Oasis.
Through his adventures not just in Japan but in East Asia, he has so many interesting stories to tell!
We learnt
⚪︎Why Activism Struggled in the past and why that’s changing
⚪︎Why Activism, and Japan, is still a huge opportunity today
⚪︎Some of the misconceptions of Activism
⚪︎Japan’s unique business culture and how Japanese companies think about M&A
⚪︎And some of his favourite things to do in Japan!
We still have alot to improve on so we’d love to hear your feedback, thoughts or suggestions if you have any!! Or even any guests that you’d want us to interview!
We hope you enjoy this conversation. If you liked it and want to hear more, we would really appreciate it if you like this post, retweet, and subscribe!
Thank you for your interest and support ♥️🎌
Finally a special thank you to the people around us who’s been so encouraging and supportive for this project. Ben and I still have no idea where this’ll go but we hope to bring some unique perspectives!
Israel slaughtered 15 aid workers in Gaza, buried their bodies so nobody would know, lied about it, and only got caught because they forget to steal one of the victims' cell phones, and he recorded the entire massacre.
Israel also did this: