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This is an oldie, but a goodie (via CNN). The travails of buying net nets, as told by the master’s apprentice: Warren Buffett says Berkshire Hathaway is the “dumbest” stock he ever bought. He calls his 1964 decision to buy the textile company a $200 billion dollar blunder, sparked by a spiteful urge to retaliate [...]

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It’s always fascinating for me to see which posts draw the most attention. Here are the top 10 posts for the last quarter: Graham’s P/E10 ratio The long and short of The St. Joe Company Absolute Return interviews Seth Klarman Seahawk Drilling (NASDAQ:HAWK) redux and HAWK liquidation values Whitney Tilson and Glenn Tongue on BP [...]

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Greenbackd has had some great investment ideas contributed in the past by readers, and so I’m extending another open invitation to anyone who wishes to submit a post for publication. The only requirement is that it be within the remit of Greenbackd, which is say that it is an undervalued asset situation with a catalyst. Email [...]

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I’m taking two weeks off. I’ll be in Pasadena, CA at the Value Investing Congress on May 4 and 5, and the Wesco Financial Corp. (AMEX:WSC) 2010 annual meeting on May 5. If you’d like to catch up, please drop me an email to greenbackd [at] gmail. I’ll be back Monday, May 17, 2010.

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Here are the top 10 posts for the last quarter by unique visitors: The palaeontology of Mike Burry Guest post: The short case for Berkshire Intuition and the quantitative value investor Japanese liquidation value: 1932 US redux What Montier’s Painting by Numbers can offer to value investors Seth Klarman’s Twenty Investment Lessons of 2008 Quantifying [...]

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Update: Happy April Fool’s Day. The hunt for www.valuestocks.net goes on. I’ve been on the Mike Burry story like a bloodhound on a rawhide bone. One part of the puzzle that has continued to elude collectors of Burry memorabilia is an archive of Burry’s www.valuestocks.net site. Until now. I am pleased to announce that Greenbackd has [...]

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Greenbackd Report

I’ve received sufficient inquiries about the subscription-only service aimed at identifying stocks similar to those in the old Wall Street’s Endangered Species reports to proceed with it. Thank you for your support. If you would like to receive a free trial copy of the report when it is produced in exchange for providing feedback on its utility (or [...]

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I’m considering launching a subscription-only service aimed at identifying stocks similar to those in the old Wall Street’s Endangered Species reports. Like the old Wall Street’s Endangered Species reports, I’ll be seeking undervalued industrial companies where a catalyst in the form a buy-out, strategic acquisition, liquidation or activist campaign might emerge to close the gap between [...]

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Speculating about the level of the market is a pastime for fools and knaves, as I have amply demonstrated in the past (or, as Edgar Allen Poe would have it, “I have great faith in fools — self-confidence my friends will call it.”). In April last year I ran a post, Three ghosts of bear markets [...]

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President’s Day

Have a good break. See you tomorrow.

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