Radical transparency builds investor trust
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CONTESTED · 234 MENTIONS · 62 EPISODES · 31 SHOWS
21 JUL 2026 — 7 AUG 2026 · YESTERDAY
203 SUPPORT · 29 CHALLENGE · 2 REPEAT
- OPTIMAL FINANCE DAILY
55 EPISODES BETWEEN · 209 MENTIONS
- ART OF INVESTING
- WEALTHION - BE FINANCIALLY RESILIENT
- THE JULIA LA ROCHE SHOW
- THE BEST EVER CRE SHOW · 3 MENTIONS
- THE MEB FABER SHOW
- EXCESS RETURNS
- THE BEST EVER CRE SHOW · 3 MENTIONS
- THE ALPHA EXCHANGE · 2 MENTIONS
- EXCESS RETURNS
- ART OF INVESTING · 5 MENTIONS
- OPTIMAL FINANCE DAILY
- CAPITAL ALLOCATORS
- COMMODITY CULTURE · 2 MENTIONS
- THE DERIVATIVE
- PROF G MARKETS · 3 MENTIONS
- AFFORD ANYTHING
- MASTERS IN BUSINESS · 2 MENTIONS
- COMMODITY CULTURE
- WE STUDY BILLIONAIRES - THE INVESTORS PODCAST NETWORK · 7 MENTIONS
- AI threat confuses task automation with business destruction
- QuickBooks Online as Intuit's crown jewel
- MailChimp acquisition as a misstep
- QuickBooks' three growth levers: price, cross-sell, upmarket
- QuickBooks' accountant network effect
- Credit Karma as a lower-cost acquisition funnel
- Intuit's GenOS and AI agents as a potential boon
- YET ANOTHER VALUE PODCAST · 2 MENTIONS
- THE REAL ESTATE GUYS RADIO SHOW · 6 MENTIONS
- THE BEST EVER CRE SHOW · 8 MENTIONS
- Start a real estate career with fund-to-fund capital raising
- Transition from capital partner to founding deal member
- Social media as a capital raising funnel
- Focus on quality leads over vanity metrics
- Vet real estate teams rigorously as a capital steward
- Social media as distribution for young fund managers
- Time vs money trade-off in business building
- Soft commitments enable deal sourcing leverage
- PROF G MARKETS
- CAPITAL ALLOCATORS · 6 MENTIONS
- CAPITAL ALLOCATORS · 7 MENTIONS
- Quitting coach as a decision-making tool
- Sure loss aversion drives poor retail selling
- Quitting as a critical decision-making skill
- Everest turnaround rule as a quitting framework
- Optionality's value in managing uncertainty
- Parallel exploration before quitting
- Establish kill criteria before you're 'in it'
- CNBC FAST MONEY
- THE BEST EVER CRE SHOW · 5 MENTIONS
- PROF G MARKETS · 3 MENTIONS
- THE JULIA LA ROCHE SHOW · 8 MENTIONS
- Credit crisis as most likely policy misstep · CHALLENGES
- Observer discipline over headline chasing
- Buy what governments are buying
- AI's tail risk is in credit, not equity · CHALLENGES
- Fed's next decade: defending collateral, not rates
- Critical minerals hoarding at geopolitics-debt intersection
- Physical infrastructure over digital AI tech
- Avoid long-term bonds, protect capital first · CHALLENGES
- THE KNOWLEDGE PROJECT · 12 MENTIONS
- People and technology as the biggest needle movers
- Building products distribution ripe for tech disruption
- Positive feedback first, then constructive criticism
- Conway acquisition as a pivot into value
- Opportunity hides in messy complexity
- Cognitive self-management for business performance
- Non-judgmental concentration as a business superpower
- Contrarian value investing for alpha
- Building products distribution as a roll-up target
- Standardization as the key to M&A integration
- CEO as parental authority figure
- Diligence via 'if it was your money' questions
- PALISADES GOLD RADIO · 2 MENTIONS
- EXCESS RETURNS · 7 MENTIONS
- Euphoria as a trader's kryptonite
- Edge comes from thinking outside the four quadrants
- All trading strategies have a finite lifespan
- Creative, disparate thinking generates alpha
- Let the first impulsive thought pass
- Human behavioral patterns repeat, creating market edge
- Separating variance from bad process improves P&L slope
- BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE · 2 MENTIONS
- THOUGHTFUL MONEY · 13 MENTIONS
- U.S. intervention in yen a short-term bandage
- AI bubble exceeds dot-com, debt funding at risk · CHALLENGES
- Geopolitical actions driving yields and oil higher · CHALLENGES
- Neutral portfolio amid Iran war volatility
- Political cycle dictates Iran policy, not economics
- Another 'lost decade' for stocks ahead · CHALLENGES
- No real economic relief before midterm elections · CHALLENGES
- Active management to outperform passive in lost decade
- Deflationary depression to pop triumvirate of bubbles · CHALLENGES
- Portfolio positioned for stagflation-to-deflation shift
- Hard assets favored in hyper-stagflation outcome
- Fed's new mandate: prevent recession and bear markets
- Fed hawkishness unsustainable, will force reversal · CHALLENGES
- BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
- MONETARY MATTERS WITH JACK FARLEY · 15 MENTIONS
- Market driven by extrapolators, flows, and buybacks
- Five-star screen for risky assets
- US equity long-term returns consensus at 6% · CHALLENGES
- Extrapolators reinforce bull and bear markets
- Dynamic asset allocation using momentum
- NVIDIA faces rising competition · CHALLENGES
- Momentum strategy beats return chasing
- Underweight US equities on low expected return · CHALLENGES
- Market driven by extrapolators and corporate flows, not fundamentals
- Multi-agent model explains market puzzles
- Overweight non-US equities on valuation
- Current fixed income tilt to T-bills
- Combining value and momentum is most robust
- Momentum persists due to limited capital
- Static asset allocators drive market volatility
- THE LONG VIEW · 5 MENTIONS
- WEALTHION - BE FINANCIALLY RESILIENT · 9 MENTIONS
- AI bubble's final blow-off: levered capital impaired
- Slow-motion global sovereign debt crisis unfolding
- Momentum factor break signals shift to value
- Hyperscaler earnings quality is deteriorating rapidly
- Treasury supply-demand imbalance pressures yields
- AI bubble hinges on Anthropic, OpenAI IPOs
- Rising bond volatility threatens stock market stability
- Hide in short-term Treasuries like Buffett
- AI trade showing cracks; hyperscalers weak
- MOTLEY FOOL MONEY · 2 MENTIONS
- THE DIVIDEND CAFE · 2 MENTIONS
- YET ANOTHER VALUE PODCAST · 4 MENTIONS
- THE COMPOUND AND FRIENDS · 2 MENTIONS
- TOP TRADERS UNPLUGGED · 12 MENTIONS
- CIO role as building a decision system
- Team diversity and consensus decision-making
- Secondary market for private assets as a source of alpha
- Be curious, not judgmental for long-term investing
- Diversifier hedge funds for uncorrelated returns
- Endowment as a forever retiree
- High-convexity strategies as portfolio insurance
- Strategic asset allocation for resilience
- Skepticism on bonds as equity hedge · CHALLENGES
- Private investments must clear public hurdle
- Yale model's deeper lesson on inefficiency
- Increased allocation to traditional oil & gas
- THE BEST EVER CRE SHOW
- COMMODITY CULTURE · 2 MENTIONS
- ART OF INVESTING · 6 MENTIONS
- Value-add strategy: infill for manufactured housing
- Manufactured housing as a resilient asset class
- Mobile home parks as recession-resistant essential shelter
- Generational wealth is knowledge and tenacity, not just capital
- Manufactured housing stigma reduced by quality and rebranding
- Tangible cash flow builds financial understanding
- BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
- THOUGHTFUL MONEY
- WEALTHION - BE FINANCIALLY RESILIENT · 2 MENTIONS
- WE STUDY BILLIONAIRES - THE INVESTORS PODCAST NETWORK · 8 MENTIONS
- Ferrari's growth reset justifies sell-off
- Exor as a discounted Ferrari proxy
- Luce targets new EV customer base
- Ferrari resilient to macro auto ownership decline
- Ferrari's valuation more attractive after pullback
- Ferrari's resilient, scarce luxury model
- Ferrari Luce EV tarnishes brand narrative
- Narrative often drives short-term stock moves
- OPTIMAL FINANCE DAILY
- THE ACQUIRERS PODCAST · 4 MENTIONS
- THE RATIONAL REMINDER PODCAST · 6 MENTIONS
- THE JULIA LA ROCHE SHOW
- THE OPTIONS INSIDER RADIO NETWORK · 3 MENTIONS
- EXCESS RETURNS · 4 MENTIONS
- THE DERIVATIVE · 3 MENTIONS
- THE BEST EVER CRE SHOW · 4 MENTIONS
- Radical transparency builds investor trust · THIS IDEA
- NYC multifamily supply crunch drives rents
- Miami multifamily supply cliff in 2025
- Target middle-class renters in NYC development
- BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE · 3 MENTIONS
- THE DIVIDEND CAFE · 5 MENTIONS
- MASTERS IN BUSINESS · 5 MENTIONS
HOW THE SHOWS HAVE DISCUSSED THIS THESIS OVER TIME · NOT A PERFORMANCE RECORD