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A Picture of Hate; The Sanjay Bakshi Way

A Picture of Hate

Hui Gold Index

The news of poor acquisitions, dilution, rising input costs, poor returns, declining stock prices of miners are becoming baked-into prices. But who knows when the bottom occurs. All we know, is that all markets are cyclical.  Hatred of an asset class or industry is what one seeks when searching for bargains.

http://www.gotgoldreport.com/2013/07/chart-of-the-week-mining-share-money-flows-spec-bias.html#more

Historical Perspective

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http://www.gold-eagle.com/article/what%E2%80%99s-mining-shares

The Golden Narrative

To market participants in 2013 gold means lack of confidence in money, and their behavior in buying and selling gold similarly reflects this meaning. Buying gold today is a statement that you believe that global economic events may spiral out of the control of Central Bankers. It is insurance against some sort of massive monetary policy mistake that cannot be fixed without re-conceptualizing the global economic regime – hyperinflation in a developed nation, the collapse of the Euro, something like that – not an expression of a commonly shared belief in some inherent value of gold.

The source of gold’s meaning, whether you are a market participant in 1895 or 2013, comes from the Common Knowledge regarding gold. J.P. Morgan said that gold is money, and he was right, but only because at the time he said it everyone believed that everyone believed that gold is money. Today that same statement is wrong, but only because no one believes that everyone believes that gold is money.

Read more: http://www.lemetropolecafe.com/kiki_table.cfm?pid=10861

What the $%^&! wrong with mining shares?

http://www.gold-eagle.com/article/what%E2%80%99s-mining-shares

Sanjay Bakshi’s Way

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The Stock Market Is Expensive? So What’s A Value Investor To Do? Buffett Videos

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Is the Market Expensive?

Profit Margins

Margin Debt

Q Ratio

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Where The Cheap Stocks Are—Come Hell Or High Water

Is “value investing” dead? Far from it, says Jon Shayne, whose bargain-hunting style will likely endure no matter who wins the presidential election or what horrors Mother Nature might whip up.

If you follow the stock market, Jon Shayne is worth a good, long listen. Especially now. (Also, check out his blog: http://www.jonshayne.com/2013_04_01_archive.html)

A disciplined buy-and-hold guy, Shayne manages $180 million for high-net-worth individuals, corporations and foundations, mainly in Tennessee. Like all value investors, he thrills at unearthing solid companies trading at below-average prices. The kind of companies that, as Warren Buffett said, would still be around if the market were to shut down for 10 years—let alone for two days after a devastating hurricane.

This game takes patience, and Shayne’s has served him well. Since his firm’s inception in March 1995, his stock picks have returned a smidgeon over 13% a year (net of a modest 1% annual management fee), versus 8.4% for the S&P 500 index. Including cash and Treasury bonds, Shayne has clocked a net 10.2% annualized return, with less than half the volatility of the broader stock market.

Trouble is, truly good values have been increasingly hard to find. While the market retreated a tad after a rash of weak corporate earnings reports and ominous pronouncements by the International Monetary Fund, stocks are still very expensive by historical measures. And as for finding safety on the sidelines, the Federal Reserve’s tireless printing presses have done to Treasury yields what Hurricane Sandy just did to the northeastern coastline.

Shayne’s dilemma and ours: Get in the game—even if you have to pay up for the privilege—or watch your capital get gnawed by inflation. “There are periods when it’s easy to find stuff, and periods when it gets pretty hard,” says Shayne. “The environment is more difficult than it has been because it is more uncomfortable to hold cash.”

Read More…….Where the Cheap Stocks Are

Top 5 Videos on Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett is primary shareholder, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, and ranks amongst the world’s wealthiest people. Warren Buffett made much of his billions through applying his keen business sense and his value oriented investment style – he sees his core talent as being a skilled allocator of capital; and owes much of his investment success to picking skilled managers and letting them get on with running the business. Clearly as one of the world’s most successful investors, his methods and path to success have been closely studied by many aspiring investors around the world, and in a game where knowledge is power it makes sense to learn from this master of investing. The following 5 documentaries provide an insight into the life of Warren Buffett, how he made his money, what he thinks about, and how he invests. 1.
Warren Buffett Revealed This Bloomberg documentary provides an interesting look at this legendary investor, telling how he became interested in stocks early in his life and became a disciple of the ‘father of value investing‘, Benjamin Graham (author of the book “Securities Analysis”). Buffett mastered the style of value investing and with instincts and gumption made a strong start, but he really took things to the next level when he orchestrated the takeover of Berkshire Hathaway; later focusing the business on insurance – allowing him access to a sizeable pool of investable assets.
2. The World’s Greatest Money Maker This BBC documentary offers an intimate look at the life of Warren Buffett, how he made his money, how he operates, how he came to operate in the way he does, and how he thinks about his wealth. It also takes you on a tour of his office and the annual shareholders meeting of Berkshire Hathaway, not to mention a peak at his many eccentricities.
3. Biography – Warren Buffett This biographical documentary takes you through the life of Warren Buffett; how he developed his value investing philosophy, how he came to be majority owner and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, his frugality, his upbringing, his key choices in life, his mentors, the turning points and defining moments.
4. Warren Buffett – Going Global This video is more about an applied look at how Warren Buffett operates, the CNBC show follows Warren on one of his rare trips overseas, including a look at one of his first offshore acquisitions – ISCAR. This video shows how folksy, old fashioned, and down to earth the billionaire investor is, but it also shows how he is quick to realise a good deal and his talent for allocating capital. It also shows his brilliance for identifying great companies and strong capable management teams and letting them get on with the business for him.
5. Warren Buffett MBA Talk Finally we get a talk from the man himself, with some key messages for the MBA students he is addressing on the importance of integrity, intelligence, and energy for success; but that there is more to it than intelligence and energy – without integrity a person can become dumb and lazy. He also opens the floor to some interesting and thought provoking questions, providing an eye opening look into how the man thinks and what he sees as the key issues in business and investing.
Thanks to www.financedocumentaries.com for finding all these documentaries (and others!) Source: http://www.alleconomists.com/2012/10/top-5-videos-on-warren-buffett.html

Chuong 2011 Investment Letter

If you shoot mimes, should you use a silencer? –Steven Wright

Jim Chuong’s 2011 Investment Letter

Someone we could all learn from.  Note, that like Jim Grant, he believes rental properties are cheap in certain areas of the United States. Prices of single family homes are at all-time historical lows in terms of affordability. Where are the get-rich books in real estate?

Also, he has a large concentration in Fossil. Note how he differs from a standard portfolio as mentioned in prior post http://wp.me/p1PgpH-xl

An excerpt:

The return that I achieved in 2011 was based on complete and utter inactivity. Readers of the 2009 Letter may recall that my cash dropped to 0% as I deployed virtually all capital during the 2009 year. Since that time, there has been no reason to add additional paid-in capital as no stock fell within my circle of competence and prices continue to remain unreasonable.

In this letter I will outline some of my thoughts around investing in stocks and my small foray into the U.S. real estate market via buying rental properties in Phoenix, AZ.

Aside from K-Swiss dropping from $12 per share to $3 per share, there was little change in my portfolio or my opinion on the stock market in general.

http://www.ticonline.com/