[eBook Code] Diary of a Hedgehog (eBook Code, 1st)

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction xvii

Mid-2010

FDR’s Fiscal Policy Redux 3

Staying Close to the Shore 11

Stay Long but Watch the Ticks 15

This Is No Time to Get Wobbly, George! 18

Make No Mistake: More QE Is Big Stuff 21

The Best and the Brightest Are Still Licking Their Wounds 25

Nobody Can See His Own Backswing 29

Fire and Ice 31

Miss at Least One Meeting a Day 38

Stick to Your Guns 43

Stage Two of a Cyclical Bull Market 45

The First Word in Analyst Is Anal 49

2011

Be Long Term but Watch the Ticks 57

Shake Well Before Using 63

Fancy Dinner and Candlelight 68

Stevie Cohen Tells a Good Story 71

The Canary in the Coal Mine? 73

Still Hanging in There 79

The Market Is a Discounting Mechanism 82

The Madness of Crowds 86

Earthquakes and Equities 89

The Riddle of Japan 93

Start Buying the Dips 101

Babbling Away 104

Swensen and Yale 107

The “Atlantic Crisis” 113

Turn Off Your Bloomberg and Tune Out the Babel 116

The New Face of China 119

Harvesting the “Grapes of Our Own Wrath” 125

No More Water, the Fire Next Time 128

The Valley of Death 130

Lest We Forget 133

“If You’re Going through Hell, Keep Going!” 136

Begin Thinking about Buying 140

Agnostic Optimist 144

My Bet Is that the Rally Is Still a Work in Process 148

The Truth Will Set You Free but Chardonnay Isn’t Bad Either 152

Investing in a World Lit Only by Fire 155

Private Equity 158

Another Tsunami 168

2012

A Tough Call 175

No Bull 179

The Elderly Kid Goes to a Tech Conference 185

Positive Change at the Margin Continues 190

Simpson Bowles Forever 194

Shake Well Before Using 198

This Business Is Getting More Complicated 201

Conclusion 207