Sitemap - 2014 - John Hempton's Newsletter

Oil and helicopters

One from the archives: The guy in charge of purchasing acreage at Northern Oil and Gas

Northern Oil and Gas: Michael Reger's deeply misleading tweet

Thanksgiving post - an Australian feast

Nu Skin results

That supposed Herbalife miss

Herbalife earnings preview

Valeant Part XIII: channeling Jeff Skilling - or trying to reconstruct Valeant's balance sheet

Nu Skin's capital structure makeover

Spectrum valuation and a case for Verizon and against wannabe players like Sprint and desperado/promotes like GSAT

Identifying at least one Herbalife customer

Assessing the state of Nu Skin's China business - Part 2

Assessing the state of Nu Skin's China business - Part 1

Follow up to the Pershing Square insider trading post

In defense of the Pershing Square analysts

Roddy Boyd has more patience than me in chasing down stock hucksters

Nouvelle Vague live in Cologne

In 2014 the New York Times has gone off line becoming a print-only newsletter for the elite and the elderly

The Gobi Desert people like their Nu Skin, so do Wild Yaks, Donkeys and Bears

Nu Skin's remarkable store opening plans in China

Uyghur women like their Nu Skin

Richard M. Hixson pardoned Nu Skin

Nixon pardons Nu Skin

Valeant Pharmaceuticals Part XII: the rolling solvency calculation

Nuskin - an MLM with wonky accounts

My sincere best wishes to Bill Ackman: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac edition

Australia is different

Valeant Pharmaceuticals part XI: Less luscious lips

Valeant Pharmaceuticals Part X: a follow up on the sale of facial injectables

Bill Ackman's new best friend: Vladimir Putin

More than ten thousand tonnes of fuel stolen: African Minerals edition

For kicks: just how big is Herbalife? And a simple proof that this is not a pyramid.

Valeant Pharmaceuticals Part IX: A comment on the sale of the facial injectables business

Herbalife, Gangnam Style, Bali, Indonesia

Steal three billion dollars, get a 700 thousand dollar fine: the scammers have a better business model - Sino Forest edition

Fatal Risk: Beach Reading - a great book to start even if you don't quite finish

That Herbalife miss

Herbalife clubs - another experience

Herbalife and selective editing

Valeant Pharmaceuticals Part VIII: product sales distribution from the department of "really".

The miserable circle of bad service: Telefonica edition

Valeant Pharmaceuticals Part VII: First notes on the special conference call

Valeant Pharmaceuticals Part VI: a first question on corporate jets

Valeant Pharmaceuticals Part V: Share pledges

Valeant Pharmaceuticals Part IV: Fact based discussions about the reduction of debt

Valeant Pharmaceuticals: Part IIIA: Corrections and amplifications on the Medicis restructuring charges

Valeant Pharmaceuticals Part III: Assessing the one-off charges from the Medicis merger

Valeant Pharmaceuticals Part II: GAAP and non-GAAP accounts

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International: an extended look

Just what Canada needs: more exposure to a resource/China driven economy

The lesson of today's New York Post Herbalife story

The New York Times pile onto Insys

Insys Therapuetics issues a statement

Insys Therapeutics: drug dealers and the Feds. Can the business survive?

Further explanation re Gulfports quarterly guidance

Gulfport Energy's (GPOR) guidance

Just how weak are Bill Ackman's examples?

Passed out and fully plastered: a comment on free drugs in America

The Better Business Bureau does not agree with Bill Ackman on Herbalife

What if anything is civil insider trading?

I am in the New York Post

Dissenting proxies

Charlotte: an old meeting with Bank of America

American Airlines vs Herbalife

Herbalife internal consumption: a comment

Letting Qantas go bankrupt would be good for Australia

Mt Gox, bitcoin, Hordes of Chaos, Demons and armies of Orcs...

The really strange Comcast-Netflix deal

I am out of tune with these times

Blue Nile and Marc Andreesen's theory of public company shareholders, oh and a valuation of Amazon

Jerry Seinfeld on Jos. A. Bank and Men's Warehouse

Get your opiates for free: Capitalism meets the zombie apocalypse

A metadata summary: the Herbalife letters

Michelle Celarier is sitting on a major story

Michelle Celarier is mistaken about her sources

Senators for billionaires: Edward Markey edition

Unfriending

When the hedge doesn't work

So many scams, so little time

Hat-tip: Francine McKenna on the moral bankruptcy of the audit profession

The Steve Madden counter example: one from the archive

Taoist temples and local blindness

Xero and the precious petals of New Zealand funds management

Do not trust Deloitte - whistleblower edition...