
 Focused Compounding
 Focused Compounding Ep 387. Bank Stock Sell-Offs, Higher Interest Rates, and JetBlue + Spirit Airlines Merger Arbitrage
 Mar 10, 2023 
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 Introduction 
 00:00 • 4min 
 Do You Think Family Rent Companies Are More Common? 
 03:46 • 1min 
 Stock Based Compensation and Free Cash Flow 
 05:13 • 6min 
 How to Track the Dilution Over Time 
 11:03 • 2min 
 Dillard's Over-Buying and Discounting 
 13:18 • 3min 
 Do You Think That's Going to Change? 
 15:55 • 2min 
 Buffett and Alibaba - Is Buffett a Buffett? 
 18:03 • 3min 
 Natural Gas and Oil - What's the Difference? 
 21:09 • 2min 
 Inflation Data - Is There a Higher Terminal Rate? 
 23:21 • 3min 
 Is There a Need to Increase the Unemployment Rate? 
 26:31 • 4min 
 The Fed Is Not a Precedent 
 30:09 • 59sec 
 Is There a Gold Standard in the US Dollar? 
 31:08 • 5min 
 Is the Fed Going to Cut Interest Rates Again to Stimulate Growth? 
 36:25 • 2min 
 Fed Cut Rates Every Time There's a Recession 
 38:22 • 2min 
 Are Bank Stocks Looking Cheap? 
 40:15 • 3min 
 Is There a Problem With Mortgages? 
 43:39 • 3min 
 Is There a Risk for America's Carmart 
 46:35 • 3min 
 Is There a Benefit to a Business That Generates Float? 
 49:08 • 4min 
 What's the Difference Between Float and Offshore? 
 53:05 • 2min 
 Occidental 
 55:18 • 4min 
 Occidental 4% Chevron 4% 
 59:27 • 2min 
 The Epic Quest for Oil Money and Power the Prize 
 01:01:15 • 5min 
 Is It Hard to Predict Oil Prices? 
 01:06:33 • 2min 
 Is There an Opportunity in the Market for a Merger Arbitrage? 
 01:08:13 • 5min 
 Spirits Ticket Prices 
 01:13:36 • 2min 
 Can You Tell Us What's the Lowest Operating Margin? 
 01:15:58 • 2min 
 Southwest Airlines 
 01:17:59 • 3min 
 What Spread Should a Stock Trade At? 
 01:20:53 • 2min 
 How Long Could It Take to Work Its Way Through the Justice System? 
 01:22:34 • 3min 
 Is the Airline Industry as Expensive as Other Industries? 
 01:26:00 • 2min 
 How to Trade a Stock at 0.7 Times Sales? 
 01:27:42 • 5min 
 Southwest Is Like What if You Had to Put Something On? 
 01:33:11 • 5min 
 Harvard Diversify Um Um Um, Uh, You See Carrier Divers Um Um 
 01:37:54 • 2min 
 Is the SPAC Stop Having a Big Effect? 
 01:39:49 • 5min 
