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Don't want to detract---I am a subscriber to the newsletter and find it very interesting and entertaining---but one of the cornerstones of his productivity seems to be that he is quite repetitive. He usually singles out events of a particular type (mostly crypto shenanigans, securities fraud complexities, regulatory corner cases, insider trading, disputes about advanced financial instruments and a couple other areas) and then writes about them repeatedly.

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Its somewhat telling that there are enough instances of such events (crypto shenanigans, securities fraud complexities, regulatory corner cases, insider trading and disputes about advanced financial instruments) for those to be repeatedly written about in an entertaining fashion.

I think some of the entertainment value comes from the quite obvious repetitiveness. For instance, in the closing section of yesterdays newsletter, he had this sentence:

> Crypto Traders Also Enjoy Investing In Tesla, Claims Redundant Study.

Which manages to state a fact and deliver a joke in just 10 words, because of the unspoken implications.

That was actually just the headline of the article he was linking to.

The repetition is part of what I really value.

His points are valuable, and the repetition helps me remember what he is saying.

I love the different examples and different facets of the same issue (although it is only a few months reading the eletter so far).

He also covered the Uber and Lyft IPOs extensively, showing that he can apply his same writing proficiency to brand new topics seemingly overnight ;-)

It’s sensible that he would cover topics on which he has professional insight, and this is what Bloomberg pays him to write about. Do you think he is more repetitive than other financial columnists?

Yeah, his repetitiveness is a little like the repeat of the theme song / video before a lot of tv shows like x-files that I don’t always skip over... it doesn’t take away much and I don’t know how else the intro could be done any better.

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