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The End of US Dominance
“The top three investing skills are patience, temperament, and having your career coincide with a 30-year uninterrupted decline in interest rates.”
– Morgan Housel
RESEARCH
A thorough analysis and deep dive through factor, geographic, and industry lenses to gain an understanding of the drivers that underpin the world’s outperformers. He wrote a long Twitter thread on the paper, and was also interviewed on the Value Hive Podcast.
Source: Jenga Investment Partners
.>50% of Disney+ subscribers are adults without kids. Link
17% of the world’s gold is held by Indian retail consumers. Link
Worldwide, sales of electric vehicles in 2022 passed 10% market share for the first time; 11% of total car sales in Europe (Plug-in hybrid vehicles were another >9%), EVs were 19% in China, and 5.8% in U.S. (up from 3.2% in 2021). Link
Berkshire Hathaway has grown its book value per share by 14,123x since 1955. Link
The Energy Sector has an earnings weighting ~2x the size of its market cap weighting.
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PODCASTS
Shattering Immigration Myths: Data Beyond Borders[1/19/23 – 35 minutes]Apple | Spotify | Google
This episode looks at what the data says on how decades of immigration policy have shaped the United States over time, and why immigration is such a polarizing topic in the US.
LIVE: The Myth of the Million Dollar Tulip Bulb[1/20/23 – 38 minutes]Apple | Spotify | Google
Economist Tim Hartford explains why the widely shared story of the tulip bubble is an exaggeration, what Charles Mackay wrote about the history of speculative manias, and why Mackay wasn’t able to remained disciplined during the rail boom in the `1940s.
Is This the End of US Dominance?[1/22/23 – 51 minutes]Apple | Spotify | Google
Totem Macro’s Whitney Baker discusses the convergence of deglobalization, inflation, and quantitative tightening and the opportunity in emerging markets as the world transitions to a multipolar geopolitical-macroeconomic regime.
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