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Why unrealistic valuations are a good way to set up a company for difficulties in later stage financing

It is highly likely that bond markets come under pressure and interest rates rise within the next five years. Do you have an insurance policy against that?

Nothing lasts forever: Why the perceptions of North Korea may be different from reality

"The meaning of modern existence has devolved to nothing more than comfort and status; discovery is a non-factor. All modern man seeks are food, sex, and comfort, and he/she devotes his/her life to nothing more than mundane things." - Paul Rosenberg

Exposing your children to real world experiences provides an education not easily achieved elsewhere. They will learn to think outside of the box and question everything.

Unrestricted flow of capital is the most effective way to encourage reforms, and North Korea is no exception. History has proven time and again that regime change does not occur when conditions are at their worst, but when circumstances begin to improve and the people grow impatient for further progress.

We are witnessing implied volatility on all asset classes simply collapse to the lowest levels witnessed in 20 years, or at least the lowest levels achieved prior to the GFC in early 2007.

Today Korea is one of the most economically and technologically advanced nations on the planet, but it wasn't always like that. Merely fifty years ago it was one of the poorest places on Earth.

Recent developments indicate that North Korea is very quietly beginning to expand its commercial interests. Some of this is due to internal change, but it would seem that much larger geopolitical forces are at work.

We can all pretend that debt doesn’t matter. We can pretend that demographics don’t matter. We can pretend that raising taxes aids rather than frustrates an economy, and we can pretend that citizens will continue to bend over and be sodomized by central bankers.

Embargos as a rule rarely achieve their intended goal of overthrowing governments. Instead, embargos tend to deprive the poor of basic necessities, enrich government cronies while giving the government an excuse for why their economic policies are failing.

If the secret to economic prosperity was the erection of Che Guevara murals, Cuba would be the wealthiest nation on Earth.

Understanding Cuba’s past and present illustrates the consequences of misguided economic policy and how it impacts socially.

An intro to the misconceptions, the obvious failings and occasional successes of state-planned socialism in a Zimbabwe just off the coast of Florida.

The majority of global growth in the next decade will instead be generated by "frontier markets". in fact, over the past five years, 43 of the 47 highest-growth economies have come from the frontier.