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Behind The Idea #44: Aswath Damodaran On Amazon's Limits Nov 20, 2018

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Our Amazon miniseries rolls on to part three, as Professor Aswath Damodaran joins Behind the Idea to explain why he went short Amazon in September, and what he's learned from covering the company. He approaches Amazon with the utmost of respect, but notes that all growth stories hit a limit at some point. We hit on the accounting, the ulcers that result from shorting Amazon, and how to find the best way to value a company.

Behind The Idea #43: Picking Apart Value Investing's Slump With Whitney Tilson Nov 16, 2018

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Whitney Tilson is the founder of Kase Learning and was the founder and portfolio manager of Kase Capital. What led him to leave the asset management game to go into teaching others? That's where we start our special interview with him, but it goes far beyond that as we discuss the fate of long/short value investing, the problems with having too much success too early, and why shortselling is worth studying even if it might not be the best strategy for most investors.

Behind The Idea #42: Breaking Down Amazon's Financials W/Marc Pentacoff Nov 13, 2018

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We're continuing to look at Amazon with Part 2 of our miniseries on the company. We bring on Marc Pentacoff, a Seeking Alpha editor and financial analysis wizard, to dissect Amazon's financial statements. How does their world-beating success translate to their numbers? How do we know it's still day 1 at Amazon? How should value investors look at these? We break it down.

Behind The Idea #41: Talking Amazon With Brad Stone, Author Of The Everything Store Nov 06, 2018

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We kick off our miniseries on Amazon with a discussion with Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store, the book about Amazon. Stone gives us his perspective on the pending HQ2 decision, Amazon's continual growth, and what makes it all work (hint: it rhymes with Leff Tezos). It helps us get at two of our key questions about the company: is their key man risk for Amazon, and is the company at risk of being too big to fail? We discuss.

Behind The Idea #40: Better Than Beer? Revisiting Canopy Growth Corporation With Darren McCammon Oct 30, 2018

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It takes creativity to invest in pot stocks at this stage. Valuation isn't there, so you have to imagine the growth ahead, think about how to identify a winner that not everyone else has, and prepare for the ups and downs that are sure to come. We talk with Darren McCammon, who has already been investing in the industry for several years - including in ebbu, Canopy Growth Corporation's latest purchase - about Canopy and the marijuana industry as a whole.

Behind The Idea #39: General Motors' Road Ahead W/Blue Pacific & Phoebe Wall Howard Oct 23, 2018

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We revisit GM to further dig into Blue Pacific's bearish view on the company and the industry. We also speak with Phoebe Wall Howard of the Detroit Free Press to see what people inside the industry are saying. It doesn't paint the rosiest picture in the world for investors, but it certainly makes for interesting study.

Behind The Idea #38: Luck, Sparkling Water, And Lacroix Oct 16, 2018

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Our first podcast on National Beverage Corp - owner of Lacroix sparkling water, FIZZ - left us unquenched. So we brought on Vince Martin, Seeking Alpha author, to go into the ups and downs of the bull case and this one of a kind story. Then we invited Rachel Arthur of Beverage Daily to give us more perspective on what's going on in the industry at large. It leaves a question of how much luck National Beverage Corp had in riding the sparkling water, and whether or not shareholders should care.

Behind The Idea #37: Amazon In And Through Bezos's Looking Glass Oct 09, 2018

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It's easy to take for granted how unconventional Jeff Bezos is, but his approach to Amazon's business is worth a closer look. We do a close read of the 2017 shareholder letter he published this April to see if we can better understand the company as a business and as an investment. This also is a prequel for our miniseries on Amazon to come this November. As might be expected, there's a lot to discuss.

Behind The Idea #36: Breaking Down Canopy Growth And The Burgeoning Marijuana Industry Oct 02, 2018

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Set aside the recent price action on pot stocks, and a fact still remains - the marijuana industry looks more and more legitimate. But is that the same as it being worth investing in? And what sort of industry is marijuana going to be? We take a couple articles on Canopy Growth Corporation and see if we can part the smoke to find out what might be in the company's future.

Behind The Idea #35: Are We Sure General Motors Is A Good Value? Sep 25, 2018

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Does a relatively overvalued company mean its peers are cheap? Do peak cycle share buybacks create or destroy value? Is General Motors really all that cheap? Seeking Alpha author Blue Pacific raises concerns about the legacy auto giant, and we dissect them to see what's left for shareholders.

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