From metaphysics to mortgages

Former philosophy professor Donald Brownstein crafts investment strategies as eclectic as his thinking at hedge fund firm SPM

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By Irwin Speizer

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Donald Brownstein: Logic is kind of dry, but it has important ramifications
Photographs by Chris Clinton

Donald Brownstein struggles to remember what life was like back when he was a shaggy-haired professor of philosophy at the University of Kansas.

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