Chris Mayer

Chris Mayer

Chris Mayer serves as a Managing Editor at AGORA Financial LLC. Mr. Mayer served as a Credit Analyst of Riggs Bank and Vice President of Corporate Lending at Provident Bank.He has written articles for the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and has published his ownnewsletters, Capital & Crisis and Special Situations, as well as a book, Investment Secrets from a Former Banking Insider.

Articles by Chris Mayer

Old School Investment Lessons

  Laughing at Blue Monday On May 28, 1962 – dubbed “Blue Monday” – the market fell 6%… its worst single-day slide since 1929. Peter Stormonth Darling was an investment manager at investment bank S. G. Warburg & Co. at the time. He strolled in to tell…

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The “Canary in the Coal Mine” for Chinese Stocks

  The Largest Online Marketplace in the World This company is twice the size of Enron at its peak ($100 billion). Pharmaceutical giant Valeant, which blew up in the last year, was only $90 billion at its peak. Before I get to what the stock is, let m…

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