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Nice essay! One quibble on Rentech is that for a long time they've not been accepting money into the fund, because that'd possibly destroy the alpha, which means the returns aren't technically 19k% because they can't be compounded at the same rate. None of which takes away at all from their extraordinary outperformance, which I mostly attribute to them secretly making a deal with Beelzebub.

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Great piece!

The tide comes in

the tide goes out

and nobody knows

what they’re talking about.

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Packy. Another great note. We don't support The Current Financial Thing. We believe the S&P500, the Nasdaq, and the Dow, will all make new all time highs within 12-18 months. And more than that, we think the best growth stocks - those with the best fundamentals, your DataDogs, Cloudflares and so forth - are also set to make new ATHs in the same timeframe. Send brickbats in 2024 if this ages badly. Till then? We're bullish. (Disclosure, long all the above).

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Great point!

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Excellent essay.

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Yes, but, even Renaissance Technologies can't duplicate the success of their internal fund that you mention here; their three public funds got crushed in 2020.

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