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Farnam Street January 2020 Letter “The siren’s song of the auto-buyers is strong”

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Jacob Wolinsky
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Farnam Street letter to investors for the month of January 2020, titled, "Thought Experiment: Rise of the Auto-Buyers."

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Imagine ten people sitting around a table. They’re all very different, spanning the spectrum of age, belief, creed, lifestyle, and risk preference. At the center of the table lies a black box. Once per year, the box prints bonafide dollar bills. The ten people all have pieces of paper which we’ll call claim tickets. These tickets confer the right to a proportion of the newly created bills. No one knows how many bills will be printed every year. Every weekday from 9:30am-4pm ET, the ten people are allowed to trade claim tickets with...

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Jacob Wolinsky is the ex-Founder of Valuewalk.com (founded 2011, sold 2023). He is founder of HedgeFundAlpha (formerly ValueWalk Premium), a hedge fund focused intelligence service for institutional investors. Prior to founding Valuewalk, Jacob covered small caps, worked recruiting members for a large hedge fund community and freelance financial journalism. Jacob lives with his wife and five kids in Passaic Park NJ. - Email: jacob(at)hedgefundalpha.com. For confidential inquires email me for my Signal ID. Other methods of secure communication are also available. FD: Most of my portfolio is in I mostly purchase broad-based ETFs, mutual funds or individual bonds - I do this for performance reasons and to avoid any potential conflict of interest or occasional receipt of insider information. I will disclose if I have a stake in any company, but in general I have few stocks and I avoid any trading especially around topics I am covering.