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Barring the unlikely, Donald Trump has 70 days left as President of the United States. The shot clock for Trump's time as Executive-in-C...

What is the Most Important Question in the World? There is a great deal of talk about Herd Immunity. Social Distancing absolutists poo...

Butterfly wings for Japan... Linky Linky

Watch, listen, learn. Also, here's a link to Bass's/Hayman's most recent annual letter. Intro and Japan: Europe: Munis and Mer...

Hayman Capital's Kyle Bass writes about "The Cognitive Dissonance of it All" - the fact that an increase in the unsustainable ...

In this extended CNBC interview, Appaloosa's David Tepper is still somewhat optimistic, albeit toned down a bit from last September. Wa...

Long time readers know that we are David Tepper fans, if for no other reason than his fantastic communication skills. We directed you to wat...

In a veritable quad-fecta of freedom loving interviews, Judge Napolitano interviews Congressman Ron Paul , Mises academic Tom Woods (and fr...

HT: Big E As long time tilb readers know, we've been following the murder of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in Russian prison. He basic...

I think the title of this post is pretty close to a piece Congressman Howard Buffett wrote in the first half of the 20th century (yes, Warre...

Long-time TILB readers know that we are very concerned about the muni-market ( click here for our coverage of the bankruptcy filing for Har...

I can't think of one thing that I disagree with in this. As an aside, I love when people use extraneous "the"s. Such as, ...

We've Come To Take Our Government Back. "Do we believe in the individual or believe in The State? Thomas Jefferson wrote the gover...

Vote donkey today and don't ever complain again OR choose a different path: one that supports liberty, encourages a government that prot...

Hilarious.

Always great to listen to. He's a guy that was literally given a statue of a pair of brass balls by his hedge fund buddies. Enjoy. ...

Democrats, you best come with your boots on, because Phil Davison is coming with guns blazing. He recognizes politics is not touch football...

I'm embarassed to have not been aware of this before. This guy, Salman Khan - who's an ex-SF-based hedgie, has basically created a h...

Wow - the yen's strength is remarkable (or is it the dollar's weakness - pick your poison). Say Sayonara to the Japanese government...

James Bullard, one of the Fed's few "inflation hawks" (which is a relative term when we're talking about people who's ...

Unf'ingbelievable. Or, as some crazy ranting guy I saw on Youtube said, "is it possible to be astonished but not surprised?" ...

Since the Canadian Broadcast Corp has blocked our prior video clip of Maggie Thatcher , herein we enclose another great Maggie video:

Southeastern Asset Management, the manager of the legendary Longleaf family of mutual funds, put together a scathing analysis of high freque...

We are huge fans of Munger, as long-time readers know. With the work of Shai Dardashti and Enoch Ko , we have Li Lu's (of LL Capital/H...

J.P. Morgan Chase's Jamie Dimon gave a terrific commencement address to Syracuse University's graduating class of 2010 on May 16, 20...

Ah, it feels so good. Long time TILB readers know that last year we had something of an obsession with California's 2009 vintage scrip ...

Bill Ackman of Pershing Square presented at the May 26, 2010 Ira Sohn Conference. In addition to opining on the ratings industry (see here )...

Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management gave this presentation at the May 2010 Ira Sohn conference. He also gave an excellent pre...

TILB Political Hall of Famer Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, makes the point that "the Euro Zone has failed" in tod...