Jean-Marie Eveillard, Senior Adviser, First Eagle Funds sits down for a lengthy interview with The Manual of Ideas. The interview lasts over one hour and twenty minutes. Jean-Marie Eveillard, the value investing legend, talks about a wide variety of topics. He starts off noting the differences between bottom up and top down investing. He then starts talking a bit about economics and politics. Jean-Marie says that Keynes is brilliant, but in the end ‘was a quack.’ He believes that by the 1970s, neo-Keynesians. He thinks that politicans have promised too much and that money for all purposes is free. He notes…