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Burry's investment one sheet
worth reading for any investor https://t.co/ZqFn52xLsv
The story of how Bill Ackman made a billion dollars by shorting MBIA. Arguably, this is the trade that turned him into a celebrity investor
Investment Cost: $64 million
Total Proceeds: $1.2 billion
Multiple of Capital (MOC): 18.5x
In 2002, Bill Ackman published a... See more
William E. Byrd
webyrd.netGould did not take a title, but had a seat on the executive committee and had four additional board seats, which he filled with his brokers.
Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
The Greek poet Archilocus’s well-known dichotomy of hedgehogs and foxes—“the fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing”—is another theme that plays throughout Peter Burke’s book.
Epstein, Joseph. “A Gallery of Know-It-Alls: Those Strange Creatures Called Polymaths.” Commentary 151, no. 4 (April 2021): 33–36.
As Burke said in describing his early years in Albany, “Murphy delegates to the point of anarchy.”7