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Financial Pop Quiz
Think you know finance? Test your skills with this quick pop quiz.
- Which global sector is a mere 10% away from falling below its 1998 Asia/Russia/LTCM crisis lows relative to global equities, in market-cap terms?
- The five governors of Fed, BoJ, ECB, BoE and BoC have been in their current positions for a total of 12 years; over that period, how many times have Yellen, Kuroda, Draghi, Carney and Poloz raised interest rates?
- In US High Yield there are 36 sectors; how many are currently generating a total return loss in 2015?
- In April next year, the bull market in the S&P 500 would become the longest, second longest or third longest bull market of all time?
- At their peak in 2008, just two days before the ECB infamously hiked interest rates, Energy & Materials accounted for 24% of the global equity market cap; as we approach the infamous September FOMC, what do Energy & Materials account for now?
- Which are the top three best performing global asset markets in the past six months?
- Global interest rates are currently at five-year lows, 50-year lows, 500-year lows or 5,000-year lows?
- Which S&P 500 sector, the mirror image of EM performance over the past ten years, has just reached a new cyclical high?
- Following China’s currency devaluation last week, how many other central banks have officially devalued their currencies?
- Of the 36 PMI’s across the globe, how many are currently below the boom-bust 50 level?
- Since the Fed last hiked interest rates 110 months ago, how many times have global rates been cut?
- Name the only two commodities that are up in price in 2015?
Answers here. Source BofA
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Uhhhh... THREE!
Or three factorial....
I failed. Apparently I am an illiterate.
I will answer them all at once: 1) We're fucking doomed, or 2) BTFD
There is only one question that matters in a con game. Who is the sucker?
Q: Under whose Presidency did the largest downturn in the global economy take place?
Furture Answer: Barack Hussein Obama. The downturn began in mid 2015, steepened steadily into early 2016 and fell off a cliff towards the elections. Widespread bailouts of every major corporate owner of the US were announced in September of that year. Obama was quoted as saying "Bush's fault." Bernie Sanders was swept into office in a landslide win. Donald Trump moved to Texas, was elected Governor two years later and Texas became the first state to successfully secede from the union shortly thereafter.
That was a sinus jam of a quiz.
I'm pathetic, I only got 13 right...
Hey Cog, Sit at the table and take a good look. If you don't see the idiot, you're it...
A plaque on my boat: Sit at the table and take a good look - the first complainer is the next meal's cook...
;-D
13. Which Central Bank puts the welfare of it's everyday citizen above that of it's oligarchy?
A. United States
B. Iran
C. All of them
D. What is a Central Bank?
"There is only one question that matters in a con game. Who is the sucker?"
I am looking all around, Cog..., and I'm not seeing anybody obvious.
(oops..., hat tip to messymerry above)
Playing the fool got me retired at 44.
The pleasure is all mine,,
;-D
Oops, a typo: Playing the fools got me retired at 44... snickers snickers
A plaque on my boat:
... and the rest of the crew have to eat the gruel?
LOL, The gruel was amazing. We kept a pressure cooker going continuously. It never got refrigerated, but instead, got boiled each day along with whaterver we had to add to the gruel in the pot. Fress fish, canned beans, a shearwater, a turtle, a squid or three... etc. ad nauseam. After a few weeks of this the gravy in the pot was indescribable. In a seaway, we cooked with seawater, so you can add all kinds of bioluminescent plankton to the recipe.
One of my fondest memories of living on the boat is the pressure cooker,,,,
;-D
If only fonazoon had not left we would all have known right off the bat.
If you don't know who the sucker is, then the sucker is you (generally speaking).
I got it! I got it!
The answer to everything is.... is....
FORTY TWO!
Bonus question: How many of our top military and defense are Freemasons or Jesuits?
Bonus question 2: Should dual citizens currently employed in government be tried for treason or simply shot?
And I need a third arm to help with my drinking problem I developed after being enlightened at ZH.
Pass me a beer Boss.
I thought the answer to everything was " in fact 42" could be wrong.
Ok pop quiz, what was the name of the guy who took the year off dead for tax reasons?????
Tom Hanks. (castaway)
That 'Restaurant at the End of the Universe' gets old unless you watch the movie 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' and have to reread the series for the sixth time.
Then it becomes very old.
-- Marvin
I'll have to give that number some very DEEP THOUGHT.
@ Haus
I'm a CPA and a CFA, and I failed all questions. I'm ill too
I got five right which appears to be pretty high on the ZH Bell Curve. What do I win?
Questions 2 and 11.
How many rate hikes and how many cuts ?
I answered 0 and 100.
Answers : 0 and 697.
At this point, what difference do the other questions matter ?
Like the dindu nuffin that got shot 11 times during a botched bank robbery. The investigating detective said, "Worst suicide he had ever seen".
Mitch Cumpstien
USURY is the root of all evil..........
''If Jews account for just 2% of the general population, then, all things being equal, there would be a 1/50 chance of a single Jew being selected as Fed Chair. The odds of FIVE consecutive Jews would therefore be 1/50 x 1/50 x 1/50 x 1/50 x 1/50 = 1 in 312,500,000!"---Radical Marijuana
''The PROBLEM IS DEBT MONEY... & THE GODDAMNED MONEY DOESN'T JUST PRINT ITFUCKING SELF people... Somebody actually does that & they have their own interests in mind when they do...''
francis_sawyer 2013
"THE GODDAMNED MONEY DOESN'T JUST PRINT ITFUCKING SELF"
Francis clearly failed to distinguish between money and credit-money. Credit-money is loaned into existence on demand by a private bank for a customer, and indeed, the customer does have his own interests in mind. The credit-money does not create itself, it is a good subject to supply and demand.
If you cannot eliminate demand you will never have a chance at controlling supply. Markets do not create themselves. That the debt = usury crowd comprehends this self-evident truth is abundantly clear by the fact that they comprehend the mortal threat credit deflation poses to creditors.
Blaming supply while ignoring demand is the mark of a moral crusader with no better argument. The American "War on X" policy offers multiple quite perfect examples.
Probability is raycisst.
indeed......the truth is a raycist!
pogrom
is the word you are looking for.
Good God, I even failed the spelling part. I was convinced it was spelled Joos.
The only way to win is not to play.
No one told me there would be a pop quiz today.
yes-no-no-yes-no-yes-yes-no-yes-no-yes-not sure
I'm pretty sure that's 11/12 - financial expert level
The only thing that matters in today's finance is wether you are in the club or not.
math is hard
maff
I got some catching up to do
Dupe.
I scored at least as well or better than any present day economist with a masters or PHD...Except for NoDebt. He'll ace this blindfolded.
So, you got at least one right! Good for you!
I'm bein` oppressed!
+100 for M.Python's Holy Grail reference
"Who are you who are so wise in the ways of Science?"
- Sir Belvedere
Answers:
1) Doesn't matter because central bank.
2) Doesn't matter because central bank.
3) Doesn't matter because central bank.
4) Doesn't matter because central bank.
5) Doesn't matter because central bank.
6) Doesn't matter because central bank.
7) Doesn't matter because central bank.
8) Doesn't matter because central bank.
9) Doesn't matter because central bank.
10) Doesn't matter because central bank.
11) Doesn't matter because central bank.
12) Doesn't matter because central bank.
Ans: E. All of the above.
697 rate cuts without a raise.
GREEN SHOOTZ!
OK, in the last 10 years, what percentage of Fed Governers had their compensation increase by more than 50% after they left the role of Fed Govenor?
I did not even attempt. It is ironic that the source is BofA - yet another "what's under my pillow. Uncle Ben, did you do that?" moment. The answers are only needed to be known who make knowing such information a basis for their living. And, then such people are supposed to deliver on their fiduciary duty. Person on the street engaged in different trades need not know the answers.
Short Answer to all these questions on this quiz:
hamburger is $7.40 a lb and strip steak is $22.00 a lb...
So for you mindless scum out there the price of "meat" hasn't risen in a "very, very, very long time"...
Just take the Fed's word for it and be happy that they are always at the ready to keep prices under control with their "instrument(s)"!
I failed, but I have test anxiety, so I demand a pass, or I will complain to the Ombudsman, and the Dean of BofA.
NOTE: If we get enough signatures we can launch a Class Action Lawsuit against BofA for traumatizing us all with a 'Pop Quiz', and for ruining all our lives forever.
I only got 3 correct - I need to spend less time working and more time on ZH apparently.
I coulda aced it but it's a white man's test.
word.
1. Commodities
2. Never
3. 8
4. Longest
5. 10%
6. Property, pork, beef
7. 50
8. Tech\Biotech
9. 5
10. 13
11. 1,000
12. Pork, beef
I only partially answered 2 questions: 1 Vietnam that devalued the currency and cocoa going up ,,but I gues two partial answers don't count so I failed.
Anybody not passing this test with at least 50%+1 is not qualified to read ZH .. no go back to your porn ppl.
Randy Bentwick the boy genious has spoken! Let the jacking off commence!
Government grading - 58%... PASS
Smart enough to vote as they are told.
This test is Anti-Semitic.
This test does not discriminate against Middle Eastern peoples.
Just provide a "reasonable answer" to each question and you've passed the quiz per Common Core standards.
The answers make no difference; we're all going to hell in the end
Maybe we should all just enjoy the journey before we get there.
Well, maybe we are not all going to hell, but I fear that it is going to seem like it. Stock up on beans, bullets, and bandaids.
Tis rayciss.
Is there a Kommon Kore version?
Where is the study guide?
Furthermore, I demand someone teach the damn lesson first before testing our happy butts. I am bringing my momma to school tomorrow and she will explain how this should work.
Oh, and I need it in Spanish along with some EBT funds for food while I study it.
Answer to all of the questions: I don't give a shit. The worlds economic quagmire is caused by fiat currency that has been largely engineered by well educated phychopathic con artists who mostly originate from a tribe whose code of conduct is penned thru satanic influence.
I have no interest in playing in that mud puddle. I never have and never will own a stawk or a bond. I earn my wealth by trading real things that real people want and I store wealth in real stuff I or others have use for. When this shit show enters the overt slavery phase I will do what is necessary, I have no intention of being assimilated into satans little party.
FASB-157...?
Frig this quiz...where did i put my crack
my answer, dont bother looking under the devils skirt. Just buy PM's and go sit out on the back deck and enjoy a cold one.
I looked under the devil's skirt once. I was sorry for having done it................ but I'd do it again.
Ok OK maybe a nit picker here but:
2.The five governors of Fed, BoJ, ECB, BoE and BoC have been in their current positions for a total of 12 years; over that period, how many times have Yellen, Kuroda, Draghi, Carney and Poloz raised interest rates?
11.Since the Fed last hiked interest rates 110 months ago, how many times have global rates been cut?
are contradictory are they not? Fed raised 110 months ago but the answer? to 2. is none?
So I gave myself the corrction and actually answered 5 correctly. Not bad for a hot head, gin drinking cycnic who wants these idiots in stocks in the public square.
what's EM? Emerging Markets? I can't stand writers who use acronyms unfamiliar to many/most in the audience without spelling em out on first use.