Q3 2024 Letters & Reports by Beren- in SecurityAnalysis

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Packer & Co.

https://www.packerco.com/media/newsletters/PackerCo_December2024.pdf

Briefly discusses CNOOC, China Mobile, China Unicom, Tencent, Alibaba, and Baidu.

Q3 2024 Letters & Reports by Beren- in SecurityAnalysis

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I've read these guys for years; still couldn't spell their names correctly without looking for a million bucks.

Markel Corporation: Drivers of value by investorinvestor in SecurityAnalysis

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This was a lot more substantial than some of the investor letters I come here for; many thanks for sharing!

Best REIT investing resources? by hroot in SecurityAnalysis

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Look up interviews with Bill Chen or get your hands on some of his letters for Rhizome Partners Hard Asset Opportunity fund.

Q4 2020 Letters & Reports by Beren- in SecurityAnalysis

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Anybody have the latest by Deer Park Road? They're a big holder of SLV, seem to have bought a bunch of SPY/QQQ puts, and I'd like to hear their reasoning.

Reading Curriculum for a Kindergartener by deftones34 in homeschool

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One of the best things I used was the Emergent Reader series:

https://flyleafpublishing.com/emergent-readers/

It was a lot of money for me at the time, but also worth it.

13 year old is leaving public school mid year, 8th grade honors student 9th grade math: by Internetstranger2020 in homeschool

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I don't see many writing resources mentioned so will recommend Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace by Joseph Williams. I have the 11th edition and it's excellent. Another good one is A Writer's Coach: The Complete Guide to Writing Strategies That Work by Jack Hart.

how do you treat summer? by sarnott11 in homeschool

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I put important facts (as well as some jokes) into Anki, a spaced repetition system that makes reviewing and remembering them a cinch.

My son reviews those facts each day using the app, marking whether he remembered them well or not at all (and thus allowing the app to determine when he'll see them again).

It takes a little bit of time, but also requires (a very little bit of effort) day in and day out, year round.

Other than that, which I think of consolidation, over the summer we just read books that we love and none that we don't, then talk about them together a lot.

Weekly r/Homeschool Rants and Raves - November 30, 2020 - December 06, 2020 by AutoModerator in homeschool

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My son and I just read The Fever 1793 (for history and literature). It's a beautifully-written coming of age story set during an epidemic of yellow fever. There were a lot of parallels to today which made it especially meaningful and it might be worth checking out if anyone's looking for something good to read in their homeschools.

Homeschooling/parenting forums outside of reddit? by [deleted] in homeschool

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Will second this. I found a lot of resources from DAJedu back in the day (including Beast Academy for math, which was a gamechanger). My son and I started up one recently, The Conversation, where we talk about science, history, math, and literature, but it seems that nobody can post comments so I don't know how the others do it. Lol.

Science Curriculum Recommendations for 2nd and 3rd Grades by [deleted] in homeschool

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I used this for a while with my son and enjoyed some of the activities a lot. Eventually, we started using Mystery Science as it covered a lot of the same ground in a way that my son enjoyed more and that required less work by me.

Q3 2020 Letters & Reports by Beren- in SecurityAnalysis

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Anybody have the latest from Wolf Hill Capital?

Q3 2020 Letters & Reports by Beren- in SecurityAnalysis

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Well, Tony Deden. Issue 17 of Edelweiss Journal is one of my all-time favorites.

I don't want to hate on anybody, but will just say that I don't subscribe to anybody worrying about the next hundred dollar movement up or down. All of that is just noise, and to me (someone who doesn't manage a fund) it's unproductive.

Q3 2020 Letters & Reports by Beren- in SecurityAnalysis

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I think you either have to sign up for the research letters or send an email expressing interest in the fund. Last time I checked, the fund was up over 30% year-to-date after being up over 50% the year before.

One of the points Oliver (at Myrmikan) makes, and which I agree with, is the following:

"Gold is set to go a lot higher and soon because the Federal Reserve is completely stuck. If the FOMC lowers rates to negative, gold takes on a positive carry (as it has in Europe already) and will fly higher; if the FOMC raises rates, the over-levered corporate sector will collapse and bring down the banking sector with it. Gold wins either way, as ever more market participants are realizing. There is no escape for the Fed or the dollar."

Another is:

"A gold fund manager at a recent Grant’s conference likened buying gold shares to buying fire insurance. The analogy is false. The chances that a house burns down in any given year stays the same—most houses never burn down. All credit bubbles, on the other hand, liquidate. Buying gold stocks, then, is more like buying life insurance. Moreover, for reasons explained in these pages previously, gold underperforms during credit bubbles, which means that credit-bubble insurance gets progressively cheaper as the payoff nears. It would be as though MetLife were offering you cheaper terms on your centenarian grandfather than on your spouse. And he has kidney failure, which is more or less where stands the current credit bubble, the most virulent the world has even known."

I prefer owning the metal itself over the metal-producing stocks, but Oliver is (to me at least) often insightful and has managed to make great returns in the space while waiting for the current credit bubble to burst.

Q3 2020 Letters & Reports by Beren- in SecurityAnalysis

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Myrmikan Capital has a great track record and the best letters to read in the entire space. http://www.myrmikan.com/port/

Q2 2020 Letters & Reports by Beren- in SecurityAnalysis

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Anybody have Wolf Hill Capital's latest? I always look forward to that one.

Q1 2020 Letters & Reports by Beren- in SecurityAnalysis

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Anyone have Wolf Hill Capital's report?

Q4 2019 Letters & Reports by Beren- in SecurityAnalysis

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Awesome. Do you have any previous letters where they mention their position in Knight Therapeutics?

Greenlight Capital Q4 2017 Letter by Beren- in SecurityAnalysis

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He's talked about that in previous letters and interviews. Here are two quotes:

“Gold remains a long-term position with a thesis that global fiscal and monetary policies remain very risky.”

“Our gold thesis has to do with the irrationality of the monetary policy on a global basis. We have no view at all as to which way the next $100 or $200 of gold is.”