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Good (Bad) Banks and Good (Bad) Investments: At the right price.

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I also used the banking framework to argue that good banks have stickier deposits, with a higher precent of these deposits being non-interest bearing, that they invest in loans and investment securities on which they earn interest rates that cover and exceed the default risk in these investments. All Equity, All the time!

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Data Update 2 for 2022: US Stocks kept winning in 2021, but…

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When you augment this price change with the dividends on the index during 2021, the total return on the S&P 500 for 2021 was 28.47%. The results are similar if you break stocks down based upon price to book ratios or revenue growth rates.

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Data Update 1 for 2021: A (Data) Look Back at a Most Forgettable Year (2020)!

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Consider, for instance, an investor who picks stocks based upon price to book ratios, who finds a stock trading at a price to book ratio of 1.5. While some of the companies in this data trace their existence back decades, there is a healthy proportion of younger companies, many in emerging markets and new industries.

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Market Resilience or Investors In Denial? A Mid-year Assessment for 2023!

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That does not surprise me, since I have never bought into the “Fed did it” theme, and have written multiple posts about why it is inflation and economic growth that drive interest rates, not central banks. trillion in market value in the first six months in the year , but the severity of last year's decline has still left them $14.4

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Control, Complexity and Politics: Deconstructing the Adani Affair!

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Given the historical roots of the biggest Indian family groups, the Adani Group has been a recent entrant, not making the top ten list (in terms of either operating metrics like revenues or market-based numbers like market capitalization or enterprise value) as recently as ten years ago, and barely making the top ten list five or six years ago.

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