Welcome to the 11 episode of the Bonner Private Research Podcast. I'm joined by Chris Mayer, Portfolio Manager of Woodlock House Family Capital fund and co-founder of the firm along with Bill Bonner. In this episode, Chris recommends some of his favorite books. We talk about “the big idea guys”, his beloved book collection, and how would he start one now. All that and more in my conversation with Chris Mayer, up next.
Bullet points
03:00 - Introducing Chris Mayer
05:32 - Curating a book collection
06:57 - Fiction meets non-fiction: The value of maintaining an omnivorous reading diet
08:26 - (Authors mentioned: Neil Postman, 1931-2003; Richard Buckminster Fuller, 1895-1983; Alfred Korzybski, 1879, 1950)
08:48 - (P.G. Wodehouse, 1881-1975, British-born humourist and prolific author of more than 90 novels. Died in Southampton, NY)
09:00 - (Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850. French author widely considered the founder of European realism. His novel sequence La Comédie humaine, runs over 90 works, finished and unfinished.)
10:00 - (Christopher Hitchens, 1949, 2011)
11:35 - The big idea guys
12:18 - Alfred Korzybski, considered by many to be the “Father of General Semantics.”
https://amzn.to/2KW1IUA
12:40 - How Do You Know? By Chris Mayer (See link below to order)
https://amzn.to/3a9s5PG
14:17 - Check out the Buckminster Fuller Institute at https://www.bfi.org/
15:20 - See links to all books mentioned below
https://amzn.to/3qXKPs0
16:30 - Alan Watts, 1915-1973, British author
https://amzn.to/2Mc8E0x
22:20 - Henry Miller, 1891-1980
23:50 - Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens, A Brief History of Mankind
24:40 - Harry Browne, American writer, libertarian and author of a dozen books, including Why Government Doesn’t Work
27:32 - Anthony Bourdain, 1956-2018. American traveler, writer, television presenter and world-renowned story-teller. Author of Kitchen Confidential, among other works
28:05 - Ludwig Bemelmans, 1898, 1962. Austrian-American author, illustrator, traveler and gormandizing cosmopolitan
32:22 Hotel Bemelmans: https://amzn.to/3opA3Jn
32:30 When You Lunch with the Emperor:
https://amzn.to/3j2LRjJ
34:15 - George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris & London; Emile Zola, The Belly of Paris and L'Assommoir; Nicolas Freeling, The Kitchen
35:50 - Jim Harrison, 1936-2016. American poet, novelist and oyster aficionado
37:24 - Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi
https://amzn.to/3cnHmyS
38:00 - Bemelmans Bar
https://bit.ly/3ah0MD7
40:00 - James Thurber, 1894, 1961. American cartoonist, author, humourist, columnist and celebrated wit
42:16 - Investors / Authors
43:10 - Martin Sosnoff, Martin Sosnoff, CFA. Founder. Founder of Atalanta Sosnoff Capital Corporation
45:34 - hook·ah noun - an oriental tobacco pipe with a long, flexible tube which draws the smoke through water contained in a bowl
46:46 Humble on Wall Street:
https://amzn.to/2Ynxugr
46:54 Silent Investor, Silent Loser:
https://amzn.to/39rUFMN
49:30 - Ludwig von Mises, 1881-1973. Austrian School economist, proponent of Subjective Value Theory (as opposed to, for example, Labor Value Theory, something expounded by Karl Marx)
50:43 - Thomas W Phelps, 1906-1996. Author of 100-1 in the Stock Market
100-1 in the Stock Market:
https://amzn.to/2NKzLQN
52:35 - Read Chris Mayer’s 100 Baggers: Stocks that Return 100-1and How to Find Them (link below)
https://amzn.to/36jxG4w
55:00 - What to start with
56:35 - Seneca... Epictetus... H.L. Mencken...
57:10 - Albert Jay Nock, Our Enemy, The State
https://amzn.to/3t7L4CT
01:00:16 - Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011
01:02:20 - Being able of entertain two opposite thoughts
01:07:30 - Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679. English philosopher, author of Leviathan and (we think) not a particularly uplifting dinner guest. Still, worth the read...
01:09:55 - John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1946
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