Sitemap - 2013 - John Hempton's Newsletter

The Amtrust "hit-piece": amateur hour short-selling from the once respectable Geoinvesting

Interoil: both longs and shorts look like fools

The Interoil-Total deal

Roddy Boyd and degree of difficulty

Book review: The Great Salad Oil Swindle

Microsoft, the antediluvian tech giant

Jos A Banks and Mens Warehouse - a quick due diligence request

Google Plus will get your children murdered

A question for Tile Shop's institutional shareholders

Parachute falsification, the FDA and non-science

Fannie Mae: ain't it good to know that I have got a friend...

Tile Shop Holdings and the Gotham hit-piece

The FDA, statistics and fundamentalism

Does someone Tweet at the top?

I am so glad these people exist...

The perils of misinterpreting conference calls - Universal Travel Group and Priceline edition

The fraudsters have a better business model

Angela Merkel wins election

Lenovo screws up a good thing

An open letter to Alma Morales Riojas

A quick comment on Gabriel Resources

Made up stats

We interrupt for a brief Herbalife update

Musical Chairs

A quick thank you to Bill Ackman

The distinctly cooler Mr Hempton is the Odd Man Out

Strange stock assessment from a value investor I kind of admire: a note on the transition of Apple into a "value stock"

The bad guys won one this time...

A little Herbalife red-herring

Herbalife is addressing Bill Ackman's concerns...

Bronte is hiring - a follow up...

Good and bad MLMs: Pampered Chef, Herbalife and Nuskin

An incomparable business opportunity allowing men and women to build a home based business of their own...

Multi-level-marketing schemes and their distributors: notes on disappointed distributors at Herbalife and elsewhere...

It was the night before Christmas... falsifying Bill Ackman's Herbalife thesis

Bronte Capital is hiring

Fraud/promote shorts versus valuation shorts

Ozymandias and the banks

The conflict between managing funds and selling funds

Self assessment Monday: an old letter to a client...

Vodafone - Kabel Deutschland: Meet Vittorio Colao - the new Sir Fred Goodwin

Self assessment Tuesday: Alan Jones and Facebook... #fail

Please please China - make my day

Short selling and misrepresenting the truth - Infitialis edition

Practical lessons in assessing exotic risks

Spark Networks and the strange failure of sex-starved Jewish computer science undergrads...

An undisclosed cause: Mr Mulacek and Interoil

Charlie Ergen, patriot, scoundrel, thief: some comments on the Softbank vs DISH battle for Sprint

The end game for Universal Travel: Ms. Yan, 47, has had many years of experience in financial engineering

Gulf Keystone share transfer

Bedtime reading

Scared - Verizon, Vodafone

Speculating about the future of Apple in China

Once every few years I feel compelled to republish Alan Sokal

Apology to CUPID PLC

JCPonderings

The HP Board Changes

Cupid's profile count

Cupid PLC's strange balance sheet

Wondering whether the social sciences are forever stuffed

Alliance Resources - prices received for coal over time

Vodafone news of the day

Gonorrhoea, online dating and credit card phising scams – examining Cupid PLC

Is Alliance Resources under-accruing workers compensation obligations?

Promising yield: Roddy Boyd on Brookfield Asset Management

Alliance Resources vs Patriot Coal

Verizon-Vodafone: it is time to go hostile

The end of Reader: what does it say about Google?

Further exploring the capital intensity of Alliance Resources

Vodafone: the only deal that makes sense

Alliance Resource Partners long term changes

Alliance Resources: astoundingly good - but why?

Revisiting Titanium Asset Management

Gulfport energy's accounts payable and accrued liabilities

Linn Energy: that did not work so well

Linn Energy per flowing barrel

Linn Energy: A bizarre definition of distributable cash hides really clapped out assets

Linn Energy's Queen Gertrude Moment

Another day - another strange Gulfport Energy related party transaction

Comment on the false New York Post story about the law enforcement investigation against Hebalife

Notes on visiting an Herbalife nutrition club in Queens

Bill Ackman either lacks imagination or has a touching faith in government

Ackman's Herbalife thesis: someone from the government will help poor people and billionaire hedge fund managers...

Madeleine Albright and Herbalife