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Armadillo Mornings

April 22, 2008 – 5:44 am

I don’t know what spring mornings are like where y’all are, but I just stepped out into a pleasant pre-dawn morning to put some lead into an armadillo that’s been digging up my St. Augustine grass.

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Coyote Nights

April 21, 2008 – 11:15 pm

I don’t know what spring nights are like where y’all are, but I just stepped out into a mildly humid, warm night, and spent a few minutes listening to the coyotes howl at a rising moon.

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Wanted: Returns for the Cramer Berkowitz Fund!

April 17, 2008 – 5:30 pm

Yep, that’s what I’m looking for. Returns for the Cramer Berkowitz Fund!
I don’t want that aggregate stuff, though, I’m looking for year by year returns for the Cramer Berkowitz hedge fund, including the years after Cramer left and Todd-o took over as Head of Trading and then President, and how it has done since […]

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Why Do They Want Your Money?

April 4, 2008 – 6:06 pm

In the last week, I’ve read the Wharton “Hedge Fund Game” paper (PDF), and commentary on it by All About Alpha, Financial Crookery, Dealbook, and the FT. The debate focuses on one type of manager and fund, and misses the idea that funds and managers are a mixed bag; what matters is WHY THEY […]

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Sunday Reading

March 30, 2008 – 9:21 am

Glam ad network cuts payments to publisher partners, coincidentally right after raising a buttload of capital. They need to cut costs to meet their promises to investors; now that they’ve raised the capital, they don’t need to keep their blogger contributors happy anymore, and they’ll soon be able to buy some of those blogs […]

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