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Quarterly Letter – Q1 2011 – Part 1

I’d like to share excerpts from our quarterly letter we send to our clients (this is Part 1; I’ll send out Part 2 in a few weeks).  I’m not sharing the full letter for a simple reason: we are still accumulating shares in some stocks mentioned in the letter. Purchase of Big Lots Big Lots [...]

April 23, 2011 | Posted in Latest,Stock Analysis,Stock Analysis! | Read More »

See You in Omaha 2011

It is time again for the annual trip to Warren Buffett’s Omaha to Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting.  Warren Buffett over the years was turned into god. He is an incredible investor, brilliantly smart, full of worldly wisdom; but, like everyone else, he gets up in the morning and puts his pants on one leg at [...]

April 23, 2011 | Posted in Latest | Read More »

Buffett, Sokol, Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion

I was quoted in FT about David Sokol, CEO of a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary, buying shares in Lubrizol a few months before Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway bought Lubrizol at a significant premium, which made Sokol 3 million dollars on his $10 million purchase. “Some investors expressed concerns about Mr Sokol’s actions. ‘Any time you buy stock [...]

April 2, 2011 | Posted in Latest,Stock Analysis,Stock Analysis! | Read More »

Video from China/Japan Presentation and DC Trip

I gave a presentation on China/Japan at the “Rethinking Seminar” at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab.  My presentation was videotaped; video (both streaming and download), audio, and even cliff notes may be found here (by the way, make sure to take a look at other presentations on their website).  Also, I updated my slides [...]

April 2, 2011 | Posted in China,Japan,Latest,Russia | Read More »

China – The Mother of All Gray Swans / Japan – Past The Point of No Return

I updated my presentation on China and Japan. – Enjoy China Japan Presentation – By Vitaliy Katsenelson – ContrarianEdge(function() { var scribd = document.createElement(“script”); scribd.type = “text/javascript”; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = “http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js”; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();

April 1, 2011 | Posted in China,Japan,Latest | Read More »

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