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Shall We Repeal the Laws of Economics?
For months, I’ve been saving up clippings for a memo on the above topic, but favorite subjects such as risk, debt, and uncertainty repeatedly jumped the queue, delaying my intended memo until the U.S. election season got into full swing, making it compelling., Another Case in Point: Rent Control The issue that first suggested this memo several months ago was rent control, something I’ve had personal experience with, having lived in an apartment that rented for $92 a month in 1956, when I was ten.
The Winds of Change
Yet there are changes taking place, and they’ll be the subject of this memo., In my January memo, Something of Value, I described some of the changes technology is making in the business world., In August 2008, on the way to ending my memo What Worries Me, I included a passage from the 2004 book Running on Empty by Pete Peterson (for those who weren’t in the business world in the 20th century, Pete held important positions in government and co-founded Blackstone with Steve Schwarzman): . . . while our problems are not yet intractable, both political parties are increasingly incorrigible., But it has to be part of a memo that purports to discuss important changes that are underway., Senior economics consultant Neil Irwin summed up our situation very well in The New York Times on April 16, 2020 (I borrowed this quote for inclusion in my May 2020 memo Uncertainty.): The world economy is an infinitely complicated web of interconnections.
A Fresh Start Hopefully
Memo t o : O a k t r e e C l i e nts F r o m: Howard M a rks Re: AFreshStart (Hopefully) For years I kept these memos away from anything related to politics.
March 2024 Edition Roundup
Oaktree Co-Chairman Howard Marks discussed this view in detail in his recent memo, Easy Money. 4.
A Look Under the Hood
The content of the consultant’s session impressed me so much that I decided to write a memo about it., I’m not disclosing the names of the state and its consultant, for obvious reasons, but I’m very pleased that they agreed to let me use the content of the meeting as raw material for this memo.
The Roundup: Top Takeaways from Oaktree’s Quarterly Letters – September 2025 Edition
Plus, we’ve included an excerpt from Howard Marks’s latest memo. 1 Market Outlook:Worrisome Equity Valuations Howard Marks Co-Chairman A bit over half of the S&P 500’s jaw-dropping 58% two-year total return in 2023-24 was attributable to the spectacular performance of just seven stocks, those of the so-called “Magnificent Seven” – Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet (parent company of Google), Amazon, Meta Platforms (parent company of Facebook), Nvidia, and Tesla.2 These are great companies – some are the best companies ever – and these seven stocks have grown to represent a startling one-third of the total market value of the 500-stock index.
The Roundup: Top Takeaways from Oaktree’s Quarterly Letters - March 2023 Edition
In Howard's recent memo Sea Change, he wrote, “We've gone from the low-return world of 2009-21 to a full-return world, and it may become more so in the near term….
The Realists Creed
A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo to: OaktreeClients From: HowardMarks Re: TheRealist's Creed Early this year, I was asked to write an article for "Trusts & Estates" magazine.
Performing Credit Quarterly 3Q2023: Tails, You Lose?
But, of course, such performance is only possible if managers avoid (or limit) defaults and losses, which is why we believe credit expertise, experience over multiple cycles, and risk control are essential for successful CLO managers. (5) The risk/return calculus for credit versus equity investment may be shifting We’ll give Howard the last word, with an excerpt from his recent memo Further Thoughts on Sea Change: Will asset ownership be as profitable in the years ahead as in the 2009-21 period?
2020 in Review
Thus, you might end up feeling this memo should have been titled Preview of 2021 rather than 2020 in Review.