Hempton does the bubble

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Via John Hempton in his latest Bronte Capital client letter:

In these months some fund managers we admire have had solid double-digit returns. Also, some fund managers we think are gunslingers destined to drop 80 percent or more have had double digit returns (with triple-digit returns a possibility). This–despite what the averages say–is an aggressive melt-up market.

The real economy is awful at the moment (COVID), but the financial economy is setting bullish records.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.