Weekly links
John Hempton from Bronte is actually long Herbalife. Fascinating story.
Longtermvalue blog is unhappy with his 2012 performance. He argues that small investors must use their advantages even better.
Eddy Elfenbein has published his 2013 buy list. Great how he beats the S&P 500 year after year with a simple large cap portfolio.
Wexboy too, writes about his favourites for 2013.
Good long story about Dish Network. Being nice to employees seems not to be their main strategy. Nevertheless, the stock has risen 4-fold since 2009.
Economist story of a relatively unknown fraud 200 years ago, involving among others, bonds of a non-existent country called Poyais.
Detailed story on Nokia’s decline from Techcrunch
value and opportunity 