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VC Data is Bonkers. Now What?
There’s no shortage of money sloshing around today trying to find a home. That includes venture capital (VC). Financial headlines...
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Oct 18, 20213 min read


Value Creation. Not Wealth Management.
One of the buzz terms in the financial advisor industry is “wealth management.” The term is increasingly used by advisors who once...
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Oct 5, 20212 min read


The Antidote to Narrative Control
Stephen Roach (former Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and now faculty member at Yale University) recently wrote a review of the actions...
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Sep 22, 20212 min read


The Opportunity in Opportunity Zones
We’re spending a lot of time at the moment on Opportunity Zones (OZ) and probably will until the end of the year. The rules, as currently...
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Sep 2, 20213 min read


Balancing Asset Quality with How Much to Pay
In business and investing, a bright line is often painted: on one side of the line are those who like to pay a cheap price for a company;...
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Aug 16, 20212 min read


A Willingness to be Different
Thinking for yourself may be one of the hardest things in the world to do. It’s probably second only to acting on the basis of one’s own...
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Aug 3, 20212 min read


Cash Is Not Trash
Being business owners, most of our clients hold more cash than the average person. The cash often acts as ballast for the heavy...
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Jul 22, 20212 min read


It's Not 2011: Why the Effects of Government Help May Be Different This Time
Some investors today are not concerned about the Federal Reserves’ ongoing response to the pandemic (buying $80B of Treasury notes and...
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Jul 2, 20213 min read


How to Assess a Business or Investing Opportunity
Many people look at business and investing as two completely different activities: one requires organizing employees, materials, and...
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Jun 18, 20212 min read


Stay Flexible
As we’ve said many, many times before, at Bluestone we view business and investing as two sides of the same coin. The same philosophy and...
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May 18, 20212 min read


May You be Free from Suffering
I was deeply saddened and troubled to learn of the death last week of Charles de Vaulx. He was 59 years old. The circumstances of his...
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May 3, 20213 min read


The Power of Purchasing Power
Inflation has been in the news quite a bit this year. Just last week the March figures for the Consumer Price Index (CPI) came in at 2.6%...
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Apr 23, 20213 min read


Here Come the Raccoons
When the world is awash in money and investing seems easy, a lot of stuff gets overlooked. Emboldened by recent returns, the actions of...
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Apr 8, 20213 min read


Prices Cannot Go Down
Back in 2013, Ben Hunt of Epsilon Theory published an article titled “A World of Guarantees.”1 To humbly summarize: The Federal Reserve...
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Mar 19, 20213 min read


It's OK to be a Generalist
Today’s world is one of specialization. More complexity, more innovation – it’s extremely difficult to have a sound grasp of the body of...
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Mar 3, 20213 min read


The Importance of Price
One thing that does not seem to matter very much to investors today is price. By price I mean the amount paid for an asset in relation to...
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Feb 20, 20213 min read


Falling in Love with Our Beliefs
“Will Growth Investors Have the Nerve to be Contrarians?”(1) was the question posed by Richard Bernstein Advisors (RBA).(2) Buying...
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Feb 1, 20212 min read


Speculation Without Valuation
We’ve experienced a long, slow-burning bull market since March 2009. For most of that time stock index valuations have exceeded...
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Jan 19, 20212 min read


Reflections on 2020 – and Why Our Unusual Business Model Still Works for Clients
Where to begin with 2020? There’s not much to say that hasn’t already been said, and most are quite happy to say goodbye to a year that...
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Jan 4, 20213 min read


Capitalism in Service of Society
One of the most important changes in business in the coming decades could be the shift from TSR to TSI. Which means…what, exactly? In...
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Nov 16, 20203 min read
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