"Economy" Posts
Signs of the Real Estate Bubble Bursting
By Lawrence
I wrote about the topping of the real estate markets around the world back in October. I received quite a number of emails from readers confirming their concerns of price drop in the near future. Some even scared of a crash in their local housing markets. It is important we look at it objectively as […]
Paul Tudor Jones II: Why We Need To Rethink Capitalism
By Lawrence
Paul Tudor Jones presents his solution to avoid the collapse of our civilization. I have talked about this issue of corporation before but this is not the main reason for which the mess that the world economy has got into. The main reason is that all governments choose to grab more power and money […]
Planetary Forces: Its Effects On Earth and the Stock Market
By Lawrence
Using physics, one can calculate the net forces happening on the surface of Earth. This force is known to be the direct cause of tides and other short term natural phenomenon. However, seldom anyone talks about the long term implications of this force and our ecosystem. In this piece, I am going to present an […]
Paul Tudor Jones and Just Capital
By LawrencePaul Tudor Jones made a presentation at TED2015 on the concept of justness and the necessity to expand the definition of capitalism. Here is the blog entry from Ted talking about his presentation, http://blog.ted.com/justice-capitalism-and-progress-paul-tudor-jones-ii-at-ted2015/ Very interesting concept and I look forward to watch the presentation when it becomes available.
The Secret Goldman Sachs Tapes: A System That Has No Accountability
By LawrenceAs reported by many major websites including Bloomberg and ZeroHedge, the explosive information of these tapes told us one thing – the system is broken. There is no resolution to this problem. You cannot fix something that is completely broken. This is exactly what I wrote for years – the system is corrupted and that […]
iStock Photo: An Isolated Issue or Bigger Trouble Ahead for the Dotcom 2.0 Companies
By LawrenceLately, the company iStockphoto we’ve chosen for photos and art works to pair with our articles, has made fundamental changes to their pricing structure. At this point, we can no longer justify using their service for our purpose. Worse part of this change to their pricing plan is due to their operation based on pre-deposit […]
The Smoking Gun: GS Telling Everyone To Jump In Finally
By LawrenceThanks to zerohedge, we now know GS wants everybody to buy the all time high, now! http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-04/goldman-goes-full-retard-buy-stocks-because-hedge-funds-suck-also-chase-momentum-and As far as people with memory can recall, every time GS calling everyone to jump into anything …
Giving Money Out To People Directly To Boost The Economy
By LawrenceLatest fun idea to boost the economy is here. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-26/it-begins-council-foreign-relations-proposes-central-banks-should-hand-consumers-cas Well, since Bennie suggested the money to be distributed through a lottery process (i.e. bottles of banknotes), I like to modernize it a bit: 1. Simply cut off the QE program and next to none interest rate window for the banks 2. Declaring the buying […]
Google The Latest Casualty Of Hedge Funds Moronic Behaviour
By Lawrence
The irrational investors always make the same mistakes again and again because they act on their emotions. The funny thing is, many hedge funds behave exactly the same way, for a completely different set of reasons. Past two weeks, the massive unloading in Google confirms how unreasonable both average investors and hedge funds can be. […]
The Economic Impacts of Ebola Spreading To Major Cities
Just a short explanation of what to expect if Ebola spreads to major cities. A smart move by the people is to avoid crowded places with a lot of people. This includes hospitals, shopping malls and theatres. This implies a potentially very bad shopping season this Thanksgiving in cities where Ebola has spread to. Exactly […]