contrarian
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The Times section is where Weiss first made her name as anti-woke contrarian before she launched the like-minded digital news site the Free Press, which was acquired last year by CBS News parent Paramount.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
As venture capital has evolved, one investing truism remains: Home runs usually result from contrarian bets, rather than from diversifying a portfolio or chasing a hot sector.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
As a contrarian to the widely held view that the Dodgers’ Andrew Friedman is some sort of baseball savant, I offer some data that suggests otherwise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
Gutsy contrarian investors should now be more interested in Verizon Communications, given that it’s being kicked out of the Dow, and more wary about Alphabet.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
Given that there is some rough economic estimate of a stock’s value, regression to the mean can sometimes be used to justify a kind of contrarian strategy.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
