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Einhorn Cryptically Quotes Karl Marx In Letter To Investors

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Mark Melin
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Capitalist David Einhorn, founder and president of Greenlight Capital, must like Karl Marx. At the conclusion of his fourth quarter investment letter, where he announced somewhat yawn inspiring 8 percent 2014 performance after delivering the bulk of that performance – +5.61 percent – in the fourth quarter alone, Einhorn quoted Marx without any seeming context.

“When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off.” – Karl Marx

And so ended an investment letter, leaving one to wonder its meaning?

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.