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Cockroaches in the Coal Mine

In his latest memo, Howard Marks examines the recent string of well-publicized credit problems.
Whodunit

A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo to: OaktreeClients From: Howard M a r k s R e : Whodunit w h o · d u n · i t – ( h ō ō d u n ´ i t ) n . a n a r r a t i v e dealing with a murder or a series of murders and the detection of the criminal (The Random House Dictionary of the English Language) The subprime crisis, credit crunch and possible recession are subjects of daily conversation., It’s the purpose of this memo to say where I think responsibility lies.,  William Conway of Carlyle Group attracted a lot of attention – but perhaps not all he deserved – for a January 2007 memo to his Carlyle colleagues, in which he wrote: As you all know (I hope), the fabulous profits that we have been able to generate for our limited partners are not solely a function of our investment genius, but have resulted in large part from a great market and the availability of enormous amounts of cheap debt. . . ., My wife Nancy says she likes this memo more than most, because the lesson is so easy to understand.
Growing the Pie

Most of my January memo, Political Reality Meets Economic Reality, was devoted to fretting over the rise of populism from the left and the resulting anti-capitalist sentiment, and it has risen further since., In the January memo, I set forth my view that in the last 10-20 years, the rising economic tide had stopped lifting all boats., Ray Dalio and Bridgewater actually beat my memo by two days, publishing on January 28 an excellent note titled Populism + Weakening Economy + Limited Central Bank Power to Ease + Elections = Risky Markets and Risky Economies., In my January memo, I argued at length that capitalism can be credited with much of what made the United States what it is today., A lot of readers enjoyed the story in my January memo about the ten men who drank beer in a bar every night, with each paying according to his ability.
Transcript - The Insight Conversations - Howard Marks and Annie Duke

Howard’s 2020 memo, Yo u B e t !, This idea also features quite prominently in Howard’s memo, Yo u B e t !, I took a look at the memo, Yo u B e t !, Howard I was going to say it was the last memo before lockdown., What I said in the memo was, it’s easy to predict what you think is going to happen.
Knowledge of the Future

All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Knowledge of the Future As I showed by using it again in last week’s memo, I was impressed by the observation of Marc Lipsitch, Harvard epidemiologist, that there are (a) facts, (b) informed extrapolations from analogies to other viruses and (c) opinion or speculation., I chose the title of this memo because it’s such an oxymoron: there’s practically no such thing as meaningful knowledge regarding the future investment environment., Thus, this memo will be about some things people think they know but may not.
No Different This Time – The Lessons of ‘07

A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo to: OaktreeClients From: Howard M a r k s R e : NoDifferentThisTime – The Lessons of ‘07 On July 16, I published a memo called “It’s All Good.”, The bullish balloon remained unpunctured as of July 16, and some may have thought my memo unduly pessimistic., I don’t doubt that it is, and for that reason his statement calls to mind a 2005 memo titled “Hindsight First, Please (or, What Were They Thinking?).”, In August 1996, I wrote a memo showing that in the Wall Street Journal’s semi-annual poll of economists, on average the predictions are an extrapolation of the current condition.
Mysterious

All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Mysterious Most of the time, my memos have their origin in something interesting that’s happening in the world or in a series of events I come across that I think can be interestingly juxtaposed., The other day, my colleague Ian Schapiro, the leader of Oaktree’s Power Opportunities and Infrastructure groups, suggested I write a memo about negative interest rates., This question takes me back to my immediate response to Ian’s suggestion that I write this memo: nobody knows, and certainly not me.
Investment Miscellany

A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo to: OaktreeClients From: HowardMarks Re: Investment Miscellany Because I've been encouraged by the response to my “bubble. com” and venture capital memos, I'm going to keep writing., Glassman's name may be familiar to you, because my memo of May 1, 2000 took issue with “Dow 36,000,” a book he co-authored., As I wrote in my May memo, investors rapidly incorporate new information into their estimates of security values, and the market rapidly reflects the consensus view of values,...but that doesn't mean the consensus is right.
Coming into Focus

All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Coming into Focus Roughly two months have passed since my last memo, Time for Thinking, and still not much has changed in the economy or the markets., Thus, I’m going to use this memo to go into greater detail on a few topics., I touched on a few of them in my last memo, but I’m going to undertake a fuller treatment of the subject here., Further Exposing Inequality Especially in this environment of heightened attention to social and racial justice, I can’t end this memo without touching on some of the many ways in which the recent experience has shed additional light on inequality in our society: • People further down the economic ladder have had less in terms of financial resources to fall back on during the lockdown, and they generally haven’t benefitted from the increase in asset prices that’s been driven by the reduction of interest rates
BTM Fewer Losers or More Winners

 1 Transcript Insights Behind the Memo: Fewer Losers, or More Winners?, Anna Szymanski Hello, and welcome to Behind the Memo with Howard Marks., And in the memo, you explain it through tennis., And that’s where the title of the memo comes from., Anna So as always, do you have any final thoughts about this memo?