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The Two Churchills

By Rusty Guinn | November 21, 2017 | 2 Comments
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This is my favorite street art in the world. It adorns a rail bridge that soars above I-45 in Houston. More than 300,000 cars pass by it…

Too Clever By Half

By Ben Hunt | February 5, 2018 | 3 Comments
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…Copula is that it’s an Idea That Changes Things In a Modest Way, not an Idea That Changes Everything. It’s a modern algorithmic twist on letters of credit portfolio risk,…

But Our Interests Are Aligned!

By Ben Hunt | September 18, 2018 | 1 Comment
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Harold Hill: Ladies and gentlemen, either you are closing your eyes to a situation you do not wish to acknowledge, or you are not aware of the…

The Power of ‘AND’, and the Walmartization of Advice

By Rusty Guinn | October 6, 2018 | 5 Comments
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Growing up in the beautiful swamp that is Brazoria County, Texas, you learned quickly that you took entertainment where you could get it. I’m not saying that…

Et in Arcadia ego

By Rusty Guinn | October 10, 2018 | 4 Comments
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…the trusted arbiter of disputes. He was a voice of civil authority in letters to far-off politicians and governments. He blessed new homesites and new businesses. His church on Sunday…

O God, Make Me Humble

By Rusty Guinn | October 22, 2018 | 9 Comments
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Caesar: What’s under the sheet? Marcus Vindictus: Sheet? Oh! Oh, the sheet. Yes. To begin with, number one, a beautiful hand-carved alabaster bathing vessel! Caesar: Nice. Nice….

An Ocean of Indifference

By Rusty Guinn | October 29, 2018 | 2 Comments
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If I tried to imagine the public as a particular person…I should perhaps think of one of the Roman emperors, a large well-fed figure, suffering from boredom,…

Rock, Paper, Scissors

By Ben Hunt | December 27, 2018 | 5 Comments
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Three weeks ago, I wrote a note titled “We’re Doing It Wrong“, which took to task the embedded anthropomorphic fallacies in how we use the massive computer…

What Gang Aft Agley

By Rusty Guinn | January 19, 2019 | 1 Comment
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But, Mousie, thou art no thy-lane, In proving foresight may be vain; The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but…

Speak Now

By Rusty Guinn | February 1, 2019 | 8 Comments
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The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new…

Pricing Power (pt. 2) – Intellectual Property

By Ben Hunt | February 6, 2019 | 1 Comment
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ARTHUR: It is King Arthur, and these are my Knights of the Round Table. Whose castle is this? GUARD: This is the castle of my master, Guy de…

C.A.F.

By Rusty Guinn | February 18, 2019 | 3 Comments
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As regular readers will know, my wife and I bought a farmhouse in Connecticut when we moved up here last year. It was originally built in the…

The Seed Delusion

By Rusty Guinn | February 26, 2019 | 4 Comments
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We may call Connecticut home now, but (as I’ve alluded to in prior notes) my family wasn’t willing to leave Texas completely behind. To that end, we…

The Zeitgeist – 4.19.2019

By Ben Hunt | April 19, 2019 | 2 Comments
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Every morning, we run The Narrative Machine on the past 24 hours worth of financial media to find the most on-narrative (i.e. interconnected and central) stories in…

The Zeitgeist – 4.23.2019

By Ben Hunt | April 23, 2019 | 3 Comments
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Every morning, we run The Narrative Machine on the past 24 hours worth of financial media to find the most on-narrative (i.e. interconnected and central) stories in…

The Zeitgeist – 4.26.2019

By Ben Hunt | April 26, 2019 | 2 Comments
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Every morning, we run The Narrative Machine on the past 24 hours worth of financial media to find the most on-narrative (i.e. interconnected and central) stories in…

The Weekend Zeitgeist – 5.4.2019

By Rusty Guinn | May 4, 2019 | 6 Comments
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Every morning, we run The Narrative Machine on the past 24 hours worth of financial media to find the most on-narrative (i.e. interconnected and central) stories. On…

The Zeitgeist – 5.6.2019

By Ben Hunt | May 6, 2019 | 1 Comment
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Every morning, we run The Narrative Machine on the past 24 hours worth of financial media to find the most on-narrative (i.e. interconnected and central) stories in…

Space for Rent

By Ben Hunt | May 31, 2019 | 1 Comment
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Every morning, we run The Narrative Machine on the past 24 hours worth of financial media to find the most on-narrative (i.e. interconnected and central) stories in…

The Half-Happy Horror

By Rusty Guinn | June 21, 2019 | 2 Comments
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PDF Download (Paid Subscription Required): The Half-Happy Horror The Judgment of Solomon, Gaspar de Crayer (c.1620) Optimization is a scourge. I say this as someone who is…