Billionaire investor Ron Baron is betting on a big spending mistake by the market, and it's not related to AI

On Dec. 9, JPMorgan warned it would spend more next year than it had previously forecast. Shares tanked. Within days, the bank's stock had recovered. That trading dynamic is a rapid-fire microcosm of an approach that billionaire fund manager Ron Baron says underlies a key part of his investment philosophy: making bets on the companies that the market is punishing in the short-term for spending on the priorities they need for their long-term growth.Baron, the founder and CEO of Baron Capital, in recent years ...