Archive - 2013 - Blog entry

Bitcoin has increased more than tenfold since the beginning of 2013. One of the reasons for the incredible surge is that bitcoin is a freely traded market and not subject to rigging or price manipulation by banks or government. Physical Gold, either in your possession or in allocated accounts, remains a far safer alternative both to bitcoin, to digital gold platforms and to paper and electronic currencies in what is still a vulnerable banking system. 

Money means power. Money only deprives people on the losing team of their fundamental rights in society and it’s money that makes the world go round.

In 1997, the SE Asian Tigers all faced severe economic stresses, partially triggered by a primarily foreign capital-funded massive real estate bubble in Thailand. Today the EXACT same thing is happening as untempered foreign investment into Thailand’s real estate market has created not a “soaring” real estate market as economists always incorrectly explain them, but massive real estate market distortions better known as a bubble.

Klingons?

It’s almost never openly admitted in public, but the reality is that few if any investors actually beat the market in the long-term. The reason for this is that most of the investment strategies employed by investors (professional or amateur) simply do not make money.

600 is a Bitcoin Bubble and Dow 16000 is Efficient Markets at work?

This is dog...

Germany has neither a minimum wage nor a government. Someday it might have both.

It it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck... Is it really a platypus? After all, this time is different... Right?

Gold prices pulled back this morning as traders booked gains and stagnant physical demand had the yellow metal out of favour. Recent confirmation by Janet Yellen that she will continue Bernanke's loose monetary policy lifted gold, but tapering appears priced into the metal already.

An interesting overview of Germany's attempt to solidify its hegemony in Europe. 

Dispassionate discussion of the investment climate.  

China has unveiled its most sweeping reform agenda in more than 30 years, but the market impact is likely to be net-negative.

In a few years’ time we might all be whining because there is no more water left in the world apparently. That’s because according to the World Economic Forum “we are now on the verge of water bankruptcy in many places around the world, with no clear way of repaying the debt”.

Endeavor to perservere!