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Hunter
@lewisenterprises.bsky.social
Arena-adjacent, wannabe Jim Grant
A company that owns centuries-old jasmine fields, luxury resorts on the French Riviera, and a tugboat manufacturer. My conversation with @alluvialcapital.bsky.social now live on L.E. 👇
Extraordinary Physical Assets
Alluvial's Dave Waters on finding and investing in the irreplaceable
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April 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Like Anton Chigurh tells Carson Wells, "You should admit your situation. There would be more dignity in it."

Trade wars and tariffs as an inevitability on L.E. 👇
www.lewisenterprises.blog/p/manifest
Manifest
The Inevitability of Trade, Trump & Tariffs
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April 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
"We speculate that the fintech boom will stamp an exclamation point on the culminating phase of this aging credit cycle. Some will lose their money, but all will participate in a living seminar on the nature of money and the distinction between money and credit." - GRANT'S
January 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Fredrick Weyerhauser obit 1914 "He knew lumber and men."
January 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Wild that every decent size asset manager pays a trader or "head of macro" a top quintile salary just to send a morning note out of copy-paste Bloomberg headlines and a chart from their prime broker.
January 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
As REITs enter 2025, historic valuation gaps and sector divergence create compelling opportunities despite continued volatility. Examining why this could be a pivotal year for real estate investors on L.E.👇
www.lewisenterprises.blog/p/reits-2025
Promise and Peril
REIT Themes for 2025
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January 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
"The good times, too, of high price almost always engender much fraud...people are most credulous when they are most happy; and when much money has just been made, when some people are really making it, when most people think they are making it, there is a happy opportunity for ingenious mendacity."
January 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
31% of the time, the market never falls more than 5% below the ATH.
January 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
January 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
December 30th, really? just throw the damn towel already 2024.
December 30, 2024 at 1:07 PM
Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut (1987)
December 27, 2024 at 12:21 AM
Reposted by Hunter
Must-read article not only for investing, but indeed for living.

Again, @lewisenterprises.bsky.social remains, to my mind, one of the most adroit and stylistically gifted commentators in our community, broadly construed, of people working in and “doing” finance.

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The Most Important Thing
Year-end thoughts on making money, volatility, inflation & Build-a-Bear Workshop
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December 22, 2024 at 6:31 PM
I have crossed the Rubicon into Real America™️ dispatches to follow...
December 25, 2024 at 12:50 AM
Any tips for deluding yourself into believing your mustache looks good?
December 24, 2024 at 2:39 AM
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a great weekend and end-of-year reading by Hunter!
I recently told a friend my theory that most investors aren't motivated by money, he said "Obviously, otherwise we'd go sell medical devices!"

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The Most Important Thing
Year-end thoughts on making money, volatility, inflation & Build-a-Bear Workshop
www.lewisenterprises.blog
December 22, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Reposted by Hunter
Prob my favorite one of the year, felt like he was talking directly to me
I recently told a friend my theory that most investors aren't motivated by money, he said "Obviously, otherwise we'd go sell medical devices!"

www.lewisenterprises.blog/p/the-most-i...
The Most Important Thing
Year-end thoughts on making money, volatility, inflation & Build-a-Bear Workshop
www.lewisenterprises.blog
December 22, 2024 at 3:49 PM
I recently told a friend my theory that most investors aren't motivated by money, he said "Obviously, otherwise we'd go sell medical devices!"

www.lewisenterprises.blog/p/the-most-i...
The Most Important Thing
Year-end thoughts on making money, volatility, inflation & Build-a-Bear Workshop
www.lewisenterprises.blog
December 22, 2024 at 1:59 PM
December is all about having an 8:30 call to talk about working on a draft, of an outline, for a report.
December 20, 2024 at 1:49 PM
Love 2 consume media, this is so great
December 20, 2024 at 2:18 AM
Industrial REIT multiples are getting pretty beat up. Most of these trading in the mid-5s cap rate range
December 19, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Reposted by Hunter
seems like the big lesson to learn is that improving material conditions in an already-affluent society doesn't guarantee political stability like everyone expects in retail politics, sometimes quite the contrary even
December 17, 2024 at 9:47 PM
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"we must adopt a Fukuyamist-straussian outlook informed by Kaleckian political economy to deal with post-materialist politics in the age of the attention economy" I mutter as the nurse ups my chlorpromazine dosage
December 17, 2024 at 10:32 PM
> ERISA establishes fiduciary standard
> Fiduciary standard installs passive investing
> Asset management fees compress
> Dodd-Frank opens non-bank lending
> Asset mgrs become debt originators
> Savers equitize debt origination
> Demand for debt outpaces demand for equity
> Returns on debt decline
December 17, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Getting social ads again for things like "beard oil" feels toppy tbh
December 15, 2024 at 11:56 PM
"They don't ring a bell at the top"
December 13, 2024 at 12:33 PM