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Climbing the Wealth Ladder
People have always had a fascination with comparing themselves to one another. We want to know how others are doing relative to...
Zach Terpstra
Feb 4, 20247 min read
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Financial Shenanigans
Drilled into us from the very get-go of our being we are taught how to discern between what is right and what is wrong. Beginning...
Zach Terpstra
Nov 29, 20234 min read
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Occidental Petroleum (OXY)
Materials Read: The Economics of Oil and Gas, Mu 2020 Introduction To Carbon Capture And Sequestration, Smit et al 2014 The Moral Case...
Zach Terpstra
Oct 22, 20234 min read
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Time to go Into Debt
Materials Read: The Engine of Inequality, Petrou 2021 The Lords of Easy Money, Leonard 2022 Principals for Dealing with the Changing...
Zach Terpstra
Oct 1, 20233 min read
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An Emotional Market: A Case Study
As of this writing, Meta Platforms Inc. closed the day at a share price of $262.52, clocking a blistering 117% gain over the year to date....
Zach Terpstra
Jun 1, 20234 min read
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When to Leave the Party
Behind every potential investment, someone always is screaming in your face to buy. You have been told over and over again that it is...
Zach Terpstra
Mar 1, 20234 min read
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Are We in a Recession?
The mere notion of potentially being in a recession is enough to strike fear into politicians and households alike. An economic time...
Zach Terpstra
Dec 1, 20223 min read
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A Soft Landing?
Quantitative Tightening is a big, boring, and somewhat scary term. Yet, albeit boring, we are going to dive into this concept together...
Zach Terpstra
Sep 1, 20224 min read
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Letter Excerpt: (META)
6/1/2022: Position Established The recent market sell-off has been long overdue, with many of the speculative assets that were powered...
Zach Terpstra
May 31, 20225 min read
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Letter Excerpt: (ATVI)
In the past quarter, the fund added one additional holding. We had been peering into the finances of the beaten-down video game...
Zach Terpstra
Feb 24, 20221 min read
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Sprouts Farmer Market (SFM)
Organic Ideas Sprouts Farmers Markets was an investment thesis that unglamorously plopped into our lap. Often, colleagues will send...
Zach Terpstra
Aug 21, 20216 min read
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On Inflation
Last quarter, within this portion of the letter we spoke of how investing is best done without emotion and even better done when it is...
Zach Terpstra
Jun 1, 20214 min read
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Micron Technologies (MU)
A Brief History Lesson As with many investment opportunities, the history of the company poses just as much importance as the projected...
Zach Terpstra
Oct 8, 20206 min read
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