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The Imitation Game: Defending against AI's Dark Side!
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Country Risk 2025: The Story behind the Numbers!
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To Bitcoin or not to Bitcoin: The Corporate Cash Question
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Alternative Investing: Promise and Performance!
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Ratings Redux: The Moody's US Ratings Downgrade and Aftermath
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The Greed & Fear Tango: The Markets in April 2025!
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Buy the Dip? The Allure and Dangers of Contrarian Investing
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The Anatomy of a Crisis: Tariff Talk and Market Reaction!
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Investing Politics: Making Sense of Trump, Tariffs and Tesla!
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Data Update 9 for 2025: Dividends and Buybacks - Inertia and Me-tooism!
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Data Update 8 for 2025: The Draw and Drawbacks of Debt
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ROE, Returns to Shareholders, Good/Bad Companies and Efficient Markets: Back to Basics
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Data Update 6 for 2025: From Macro to Micro - The Hurdle Rate Question
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Data Update 5 for 2025: It is a small world after all!
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DeepSeek crashes the AI Party: Story break, change or shift?
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Data Update 4 for 2025: Interest Rates, Inflation and the Fed!
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Data Update 3 for 2025: The times they are a'changin...
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Data Update 2 for 2025: The Party Continued for US Equities
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Data Update 1 for 2025: The Draw (and Dangers) of Data!
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For the fun of it: An Open House for my Spring 2025 Classes
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21
The Siren Song of Sustainability: The Theocratic Trifecta's Third Leg!
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22
The Wisdom (and Madness) of Crowds: Political Markets as Election Predictors!
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23
The Sugar Daddy Effect? Corporate Venture Capital, Sovereign Wealth Funds and Green Investing!
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24
A Big Tech Breakup: Cui Bono?
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25
Just do it! Brand Name Lessons from Nike's Troubles!
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Fed up with Fed Talk: Central Banking Fairy Tales and Facts!
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27
Dealing with Decline: Intel, Walgreens and Starbucks put to the test!
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28
The Power of Expectations: Nvidia's Earnings Report and Market Reaction
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29
Beat you Bot: Building your moat against AI!
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30
The Corporate Life Cycle: The Key Ideas
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31
Country Risk: The 2024 Update
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Too Big a Risk? Catastrophic Risks in Business and Investing
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The Mag(nificent) Seven: The Seven Stocks that Saved the Market in 2023!
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Data Update 5 for 2024: Profitability - The End Game for Business?
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Data Update 4 for 2024: Danger plus Opportunity - Risk enters the Equation!
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Data Update 3 for 2024: A Rule Breaking Year for Interest Rates
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Data Update 2 for 2024: A Comeback Year for Stocks!
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The School bell rings: Time for class!
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Data Update 1 for 2024: The data speaks, but what is it saying?
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40
The Difference Makers: Key Person(s) Value
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41
A Tesla Revisit: Story Twists and Turns with Value Consequences
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42
Good Intentions, Perverse Outcomes: The Impact of Impact Investing
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43
Invisible, but Invaluable: Valuing Intangibles - The Birkenstock IPO
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44
Market Bipolarity: Exuberance versus Exhaustion!
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45
Putting the (Insta)cart before the (Grocery)horse: A COVID Favorite's Reality Check!
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46
A Business Upended: Streaming and the Future of The Entertainment Business
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47
Toys for Billionaires: Sports Franchises as Trophy Assets
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48
In Search of Safe Havens: The Trust Deficit and Risk-free Investments!
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49
The Price of Risk: With Equity Risk Premiums, Caveat Emptor!
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50
Country Risk: A 2023 Mid-year Update
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51
Investor Resilience or In Denial: A Look Back at the First Half of 2023
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AI Winners, Losers and Wannabes: Valuing AI's Boost to NVIDIA's Value!
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Good (Bad) Banks and Good (Bad) Investments: At the right price...
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Breach of Trust: Decoding the 2023 Banking Crisis
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Data Update 7 for 2023: Dividends, Buybacks and Cashflows
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Data Update 6 for 2023: The Upside and Downside of Debt
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Data Update 5 for 2023: Profitability, Returns and Value
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Data Update 4 for 2023: Country Risk
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The Theocratic Trifecta: The Allure and False Promise of ESG, Sustainability and Stakeholder Wealth
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60
India Rising hits a Roadblock: The Short Selling Threat to the Adani Group!
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61
Dissent and Debate: Pushback on my Tesla Valuation!
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Data Update 3 for 2023: Interest Rates and Bond Returns in 2022
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Revisiting Tesla in January 2023: The Great Unraveling or a Return to Normalcy?
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Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table
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A Return to Teaching: The Spring 2023 Edition
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Facebook (Meta) Lesson 3: Tell me a story!
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Facebook (Meta) Lesson 2: Accounting Inconsistencies and Consequences
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Facebook (Meta) Lesson 1: Corporate Governance - The What, Why and What now?
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Free Cash Flow: Back to Basics
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Uncertainty in Investing and Valuation: What if questions, Scenario Analysis and Simulations
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Sow the wind, Reap the whirlwind: An Inflation Update (September 23, 2022)
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A 2022 Zomato Update: Price, Value and the Gap!
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Country Risk: A Mid-year Update for 2022
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Risk Capital and Markets: A Temporary Retreat or Long term Retrenchment?
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An Inflation Follow Up: Company Exposure to Inflation's Effects
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In Search of a Steady State: Inflation, Interest Rates and Value
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78
Elon's Twitter Play: Valuation Question or Political Rorschach Test?
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79
ESG's Russia Test: Trial by Fire or Crash and Burn?
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80
Russia in Ukraine: Let Loose the Dogs of War!
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Data Update 5: The Bottom Line!
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End of an Era or Temporary Setback: Revisiting the FANGAM Stocks
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Data Update 4: Risk = Danger + Opportunity
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Data Update 3 for 2022: The Inflation Effect on Investing
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Data Update 2 for 2022: A Winning Year for US stocks, but....
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Data Update 1 for 2022: It's Moneyball Time!
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Back in the Classroom: Time to Teach!
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The "Right" CEO: A Corporate Life Cycle Perspective
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Tesla at a Trillion-Dollar Market Cap: Revisiting its Valuation
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The Billionaire Tax Proposal: A No-good, Awful, Terrible Idea!
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Triggered Disclosures: A Way out of the Disclosure Dilemma!
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The Indian Smartphone Revolution: Paytm's "Coming of Age" IPO
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An ESG Follow up: The Gravy Train (or circle) rolls on!
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Velvet Glove, Meet Iron Fist: The China Tech Crackdown
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Zomato.. Zomato... A DIY Valuation of Zomato
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The Zomato IPO: A Bet on Big Markets and User Platforms!
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The Disclosure Dilemma: When More (Data) is Less (Information)!
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The SPAC Revolution: IPO Disruptor or Blank Check Distortion?
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Inflation and Investing: False Alarm or Fair Warning?
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The Corporate Tax Question: Facts and Fiction
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Interest Rates and Stock Prices: More than meets the eye!
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Data Update 4 for 2021: The Hurdle Rate
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The Price/Value Feedback Loop: Revisiting AMC and GME!
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Pitchforks and Torches at GameStop: The Reddit Raid on Hedge Funds!
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Data Update 3 for 2021: The Rest of the (Market) Story
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Data Update 2 for 2021: The Price of Risk!
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Marking Time: Another year, a new semester and fresh classes!
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Data Update 1 for 2021: A (Data) Look back at a Most Forgettable Year!
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The Sharing Economy comes home! The Airbnb IPO (at long last)!
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A Viral Market Update XIV: A Wrap on the COVID market, premature or not!
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Narrative and Numbers: Light in the Darkness
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Value Investing III: Rebirth, Reincarnation or Requiem?
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Value Investing II: A Lost Decade!
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Value Investing I: The Back Story!
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Doing good or Sounding Good: A Skeptical Look at ESG!
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Perception, Illusion and Reality: Stock Splits and Index Inclusions (Exclusions)
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A Viral Market Update XIII: The Strong (FANGAM) get stronger
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From Class Room to Class Zoom: Teaching in COVID Times!
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Viral Market Update XII: The Resilience of Risk Capital
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A Viral Market Update XI: An Ode to Flexibility
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A Viral Market Update X: A Corporate Life Cycle Perspective
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A Viral Market Update IX: Making Sense of the Market, A DIY Valuation of the S&P 500
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Postcards from the edge: Lessons from the COVID crisis
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A Viral Market Update VIII: A Crisis test of Value vs Growth, Active vs Passive, Small vs Large!
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A Viral Market Update VIII: A Crisis test of Value vs Growth, Active vs Passive, Small vs Large!
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A Viral Market Update VII: Mayhem with Mulltiples
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A Viral Market Update VII: Mayhem with Mulltiples
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A Viral Market Update VI: Updating the Price of Risk (Equity Risk Premiums & Default Spreads)
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A Viral Market Meltdown V: Back to Basics?
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A Viral Market Meltdown IV: Preparing for a post-virus World
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Data Update 7 for 2020: The Dark Side of Debt
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Data Update 6 for 2020: Growth, Profitability and Reinvestment
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A Viral Market Update III: Price vs Value, Investing vs Trading!
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A Viral Market Meltdown II: Clues in the Market Debris?
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Data Update 5 for 2020: Costs of debt, equity and capital
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A Viral Market Meltdown: Fear or Fundamentals?
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Data Update 4 for 2020: Country Risk and Currency Questions
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Data Update 3 for 2020: The Price of Risk
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A Do-it-Yourself (DIY) Valuation of Tesla: Of Investment Regret and Disagreement!
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An Ode to Luck: Revisiting Tesla in January 2020
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Data Update 2 for 2020: A Retrospective on a Disruptive Decade (2010-19)
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Data Update 1 for 2020: Setting the table
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A Teaching Manifesto: An Invitation to my Spring 2020 Classes!
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Regime Changes and Value: An Aramco Valuation Follow up!
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A Coming-out party for an Oil Colossus: Pricing and Valuing Aramco's IPO!
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Softbank's WeWork Rescue: Savior Economics or Sunk Cost Problem?
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Disrupting the IPO Process: Challenging the Banker-run Model!
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IPO Lessons for Public Market Investors
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US Equities: Market Bubble or Groundhog Day?
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What do VCs prize and price? Lessons from Peloton, Uber and WeWork IPOs
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Runaway Story to Meltdown in Motion: The Unraveling of the WeWork IPO
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Shareholder Value to Stakeholder Interests: CEO Capitulation or Empty Doublespeak?
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Country Risk: A 2019 mid-year update
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Macro Bet or Micro Delusion? The Marketing of Beyond Meat
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Curfew for a Corporate Teenager? Tesla in June 2019
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The Uber Launch: Personal Mobility Revolution or Car Service Overreach?
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Lyfting Off? The Lyft IPO
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Investing Idol Worship: The Kraft Heinz Lesson
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January 2019 Data Update 9: Playing the Pricing Game
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January 2019 Data Update 8: Buybacks - Fact and Fiction
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January 2019 Data Update 7: Debt - Neither Poison nor Nectar!
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January 2019 Data Update 6: Profitability, Growth and Value
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January 2019 Data Update 5: Of Hurdle Rates and Funding Costs
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January 2019 Data Update 4: The Many Faces of Risk!
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Back to Class: A Teaching Manifesto!
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January 2019 Data Update 3: Playing the Numbers Game
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January 2019 Data Update 2: The Bond Market Message
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Data Update 1 for 2019: Stocks are risky (in case we had forgotten)!
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Signal or Noise? Yield Curves, Economic Growth and Stock Prices
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Investment Whiplash: Better lucky than good?
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The GE End Game: The Bataan Death March or Resurrection?
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An October Surprise: Making Sense of Market Mayhem!
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High and Higher: The Money in Marijuana
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Apple and Amazon at a Trillion $: A Follow up on Uncertainty and Catalysts
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Trillion Dollar Duo: An Apple and Amazon Retake!
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Trillion Dollar Toppers: Market Triggers, Value Drivers and Pricing Catalysts!
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Deja Vu in Turkey: Currency Crisis and Corporate Insanity!
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Tesla's Going Private? Stray Tweet or Game Changing News?
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Country Risk 2018: A Mid-Year Update
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Share Count Confusion: Dilution, Employee Options and Multiple Share Classes!
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Twists and Turns in the Tesla Story: A Boring, Boneheaded Update!
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User Based Companies: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly!
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Amazon: Glimpses of Shoeless Joe!
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Alphabet Soup: All Alpha (Google), No Bets?
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Netflix: The Future of Entertainment or House of Cards?
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Facebook: Friendless, but still formidable!
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Come Easy, Go Easy: The Takedown of the FANG Stocks
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Spotify Loose Ends: Pricing, Subscriber Value and Big Data!
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Stream On: An IPO Valuation of Spotify!
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Damodaran Online: There is an app for that!
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Interest Rates and Stock Prices: Looking Under the Hood!
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Testing Times: Market Turmoil and Investment Serenity
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January 2018 Data Update 10: The Price is right!
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DataUpdate 9 for 2018: Dividends, Buybacks & Cash Balances
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Data Update 8 for 2018: Debt and Taxes
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Data Update 7 for 2018: Profits, Excess Returns and Value
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Data Update 6 for 2018: The Cost of Capital
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January 2018 Data Post 5: Country Risk Update
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January 2018 Data Update 4: The Currency Conundrum
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