Babies are Coming ?
Damien Lanyon , Uncategorized
, ByI’m going to speculate here. With the lockdowns still underway and likely to continue for some time… it appears that self care is going to become a persistent trend. People are stuck at home, not travelling and not spending money on eating out. They are however spending money on making themselves a better version of […]
Read More Efficient Markets ?
Damien Lanyon , Uncategorized
, ByThere is a lot of talk about efficient markets of late. Not 100% what that means exactly… Somehow the stock market is supposed to be an efficient market where all participants have access to the same information, so therefore there is no ability to make more return than the market. But how does that explain […]
Read More Taxes for 2021
Damien Lanyon , Uncategorized
, ByBefore the COVID 19 crises the Federal Budget deficit for 2020 was forecast to be $1.1T, so far $2T of stimulus has been approved with more to come. This has lead to the Federal Debt to explode to $25T with more to come… GDP is around $21T so we are easily over 100% Debt/GDP ratio. […]
Read More Interesting Observations
Damien Lanyon , Uncategorized
, ByI have been on a lot of earnings calls and partnership updates from many of our investments the last week. Here are some of the notes that I have taken that struck me as interesting. “Home Depot number of store visitors were down 4%, average order up 11%” “Online grocery sales up 5X since the […]
Read More Price
Damien Lanyon , Uncategorized
, ByPrice is important in investing. I think it is important in two occasions – the day you buy and the day you sell. Between those two days a lot can happen. That’s why it’s important to remeber that a stock is a share of a company in an ongoing enterprise (hopefully) I am trying to […]
Read More It’s All Connected…
Damien Lanyon , Uncategorized
, ByThe global economy is highly complex and integrated. A decision made in isolation can often have wide ranging and “unexpected” consequences. The current trade and tariff war is just such an example. The US has for a long time trade deficits. These aren’t bad, they are not one country taking advantage of another. As the […]
Read More And…
Damien Lanyon , Uncategorized
, ByTalking to a lot of investment sponsors and “opinionated” investors, I’m often times struck by how binary their decision making process is. Their “idea/product” is the greatest idea in the known universe and you would be stupid not to put all your money into it. Always a choice between A or B. Why does this […]
Read More Macro vs Micro
Damien Lanyon , Uncategorized
, ByThe last few weeks I have been to a couple of conferences. The first was an LP meeting with Social Leverage – an early stage VC firm, the second a presentation from Art Laffer, the renowned supply side economist. The juxtaposition between these two events was profound. The Social Leverage conference was a bunch of […]
Read More How Much?
Damien Lanyon , Uncategorized
, ByIt’s interesting living here in San Diego. It’s not a secret that is has desirable weather and a strong, diversified economy. The dilemma is that it is essentially land locked and many people want to come and enjoy the sunshine. Well except on days when it rains like today (OMG no one knows how to […]
Read More Shhh
Damien Lanyon , Uncategorized
, ByWith so much Social Media around, I’m not sure if all the rhetoric that gets produced has always been there, or is it now just so much noisier because of all the platforms that it can be broadcast on. The problem with so much noise is that it is becoming more and more difficult to […]
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