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![The Lion in Winter](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/4541994/1400x1400_300x300.jpg)
4 days ago
The Lion in Winter
4 days ago
4 days ago
From 1930 to 2010, there were six extended periods of small cap outperformance as it dominated large cap over that entire period. But since 2010, small cap sits alongside value stocks and non-US stocks in the unholy trinity of underperforming portfolio strategies. While poor profit fundamentals argue against a prolonged period of outperformance vs large cap, small cap stocks are at their cheapest levels in the 21st century with potential market and political catalysts in their favor. First, a few words on the CrowdStrike outage.
![The Supreme Court vs the Regulatory State](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/4541994/1400x1400_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Jul 09, 2024
The Supreme Court vs the Regulatory State
Tuesday Jul 09, 2024
Tuesday Jul 09, 2024
The Supreme Court vs the Regulatory State. Recent Supreme Court rulings may now usher in the largest pushback on the regulatory state since the Reagan Administration. A look at the end of Chevron deference, a revised statute of limitations for challenging government regulations, the Major Questions Doctrine, the right to a jury trial and a District Court injunction against Biden’s LNG export moratorium.
![A Piece of the Action](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/4541994/1400x1400_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Jun 06, 2024
A Piece of the Action
Thursday Jun 06, 2024
Thursday Jun 06, 2024
Investing in professional sports leagues and related businesses. As rules around private equity ownership of sports leagues expand, we review team valuations and profitability, emerging sports categories, streaming and broadcast revenues, the decline of regional sports networks, drivers and comparisons of league parity, relegation and financial pressures in the English Premier League, stadium subsidies, sport betting and other adjacent businesses, antitrust issues, the esports winter, the worst teams that money can buy and the best basketball players of all time.
![Animal Farm](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/4541994/1400x1400_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday May 15, 2024
Animal Farm
Wednesday May 15, 2024
Wednesday May 15, 2024
With spring planting season having arrived in Zone 7, it’s a good time to review agriculture from an investor’s perspective. Topics include agricultural price inflation in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; public and private equity investments in agriculture, farmland ownership and the drivers of farmland returns; seed bio-engineering designed to reduce consumption of fertilizer, fungicide and water; and some satellite data on the immense agricultural damage occurring in Gaza and Israel. The Appendix addresses the avian flu’s impact on agriculture and the food supply.
![Cicadian Rhythms](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/4541994/1400x1400_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
Cicadian Rhythms
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
Cicadian Rhythms: the fading prospects of a US disinflationary boom; Japan’s structural reform/M&A emergence; and Eye on the Market mailbag responses to questions on Tesla/Musk, GLPs, housing, China, Truth Social and Meta’s latest open source model
![The Good, the Bad and the Ugly](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/4541994/1400x1400_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: an investor lens on tech valuations, AI, energy and the US Presidential Election.
![Electravision](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/4541994/1400x1400_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Electravision
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
This Eye on the Market is about the predominant vision for the future which involves the electrification of everything, powered by solar, wind, transmission and distributed energy storage.
![Five Easy Pieces](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/4541994/1400x1400_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Feb 08, 2024
Five Easy Pieces
Thursday Feb 08, 2024
Thursday Feb 08, 2024
Five Easy Pieces: on Magnificent 7 stocks, open source large language models, the No Labels movement, the Armageddonists and bottom-fishing in Chinese equities.
![Medical Complications](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/4541994/1400x1400_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Medical Complications
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
This Eye on the Market is about all the things that can be true at the same time. The collapse of the political middle in Congress should not be an excuse for everyone else to abandon the ability to believe things that may appear contradictory, but which are all part of a more complicated reality.
![Outlook 2024 - Episode 3: Deep Dive—Top Ten Surprises](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/4541994/1400x1400_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
Outlook 2024 - Episode 3: Deep Dive—Top Ten Surprises
Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
A top ten list on what might happen… not what will happen, in honor of strategist Byron Wien