Patient Value Investing and America’s Industrial Advantage | Bob Robotti
Bob Robotti, legendary value investor and President and CIO of Robotti and Company Advisors, is one of a very select group of investors with a 30+ year track record of S&P 500 outperformance. Here he joins Other People’s Money to discuss long-term value investing, why he likes to invest in companies perceived to be facing headwinds, and his view that American based industrial companies are competitively advantaged for reasons completely unaffected by trade policy. He also discusses how he operates both an advisory business and a broker dealer business and how the broker dealer has served as a starting point for many other great value investors.
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:27 Patient Capital
08:05 Investing in Companies with Headwinds
12:13 Building Products Businesses
16:08 North American Industrial Advantage
22:41 Industries Returning to the USA
27:18 Valuing Businesses on Cost of Replacement
30:56 The Links Between Lumber, Building Products,
and Housing
33:24 Engaging With Management in Long-term
Positions
39:04 Trading Around Long-Term Positions
47:57 Buying Stocks After They've Gone Up
52:56 Trading Against Each Other
55:01 Having a Broker Dealer and Advisory Business
59:15 Jumping From the Sell Side to the Buy Side
01:04:08 Capital Churn
01:06:03 All US Equity Investors Should Compare
Themselves to the S&P 500
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Regime of Uncertainty | Steve Hanke on Money Supply Shock, Tariff and Current Account, and Why Recession Remains Base Case For 2025
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Steve Hanke, author of “Making Money Work” and Professor of Applied Economics The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, joins Monetary Matters to share his thoughts on the anemic bank credit growth, fiscal and tariffs policy in the United States, and the global Dollar system. Recorded May 20, 2025.
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Economic Policy To The Fore | Jason Furman on Deregulation, Tax Cuts, Tariffs, and Healthcare
Jason Furman, former Chairman of Council of Economic Advisers for President Obama and Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy jointly at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and the Department of Economics at Harvard University, joins Monetary Matters to share his view of the Trump administration’s “three-legged stool” of tariffs, deregulation, and tax cuts. Recorded May 20, 2025.
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Fiscal Decay, EM Parallels, and What’s Next for the Dollar | Nicolás Dujovne
Nicolás Dujovne, CIO and founder of Tenac Asset
Management and former Treasury Minister of Argentina joins Monetary Matters to discuss the evolution of emerging market economies, EM debt investing, and why even though the US’s failure to address fiscal issues may be reminiscent of emerging markets it still falls short of full EM status even if it risks the US Dollar’s reserve currency status over the long run. Dujovne also identifies the opportunities he's watching now, explains why he thinks the dollar is moving lower, and makes the case for EM debt becoming more common in investor portfolios.
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Timestamps:
00:46 The Impact of the Dollar on EMs Like Argentina
04:59 The Impact of the Fed and US Rated on EMs Experiencing Crisis
08:15 The Causes of Argentina's Inflation
15:17 The Mechanics of Money Printing
18:38 Macro Investing in Emerging Markets
28:30 Dollar Bonds vs Local Currency Bonds
34:55 Why Do Countries Issue Dollar Bonds?
40:05 The Case for EM Debt as an Asset Class
44:21 Balance of Payments
47:51 Economics vs Trading
52:58 Rebalancing the US vs the Rest of World
55:40 The Weakening US Dollar
57:54 Tariff Impacts on US GDP
01:01:36 One Year Dollar Outlook
01:03:25 Current Positioning
01:05:26 Current Market Anomalies
01:08:52 Is the US Becoming an Emerging Market
01:13:54 LATAM Tariff Winners
01:17:16 Opinions on Milei
01:21:18 Argentina Market Views
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The Holy Grail of Macro | Prometheus Macro’s Aahan Menon on Why Tariffs Won’t Cause A Recession And Why Buying Dips Only Works In An Expansion
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