What Do Lessons from the Industrial Revolution Have to Tell Us Today?
A historical reversal of direction underway? The nineteenth-century influenced the social-political and economic development of human life on earth in vibrant living color. Not! The nineteenth-century industrial revolution produced dreary over-crowded unsanitary conditions for human...
What is the Meaning of “Capitalism” and Other Out-Moded Terms?
The true history of eleventh-century civilization is a source of inspiration for contemporary apocalypse dramas. After five centuries of living in danger and uncertainty, walls were built around the town, so that the populous could...
Will Pokemon Cards Become the Latest Commodity Craze
Gamification, scarcity, and The Greater Fool Theory Pokemon cards have been on fire lately. While Gamestop hasn’t quite made it to the moon, a 1st Edition Holo Charizard Card, the gold standard for Pokemon trading...
The Link Between Consumerism And Productive Societies
Why consumerism and productivity go hand-in-hand, everything has a price Consumerism is seen as a negative trend in most of today’s society. Because the behavior is associated with being pretentious, greedy, or even mindless. It...
How Not To Be Dumb Money
Gamestop Meme-ified Put Option Cookie Experiment Edition 2.0 “The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient” — Warren Buffett At first glance any Buffett-ism seems irrelevant to the bubblicious...
Dividend Growth in North America
A lot of US residents invest in dividend-paying stocks and make enough earnings out of dividends to get by. What most people are not aware of is the total amount paid by all the...
Should I Take This Money? 5 Major Ways VCs Invest In You — And...
VCs come in many different shapes: investment thesis, fund size, geographic focus, profit-motivated versus strategic returns, and how they invest. Indeed, VCs use a variety of investment vehicles including opportunity fund, special-purpose vehicle (SPV,...
Tired of Losing to the Big Guys? Maybe You Should Write a Bot
My Plan to Enter the World of Algotrading According to Business Wire, algorithmic trading (algotrading) is responsible for around 60–73% of all U.S. equity trading. These are largely owned by high-frequency trading firms that rely on data...
Creating Sustainable Carbon Economy With Blockchain
In the week of Feb 14, 2021, an unusual ‘Arctic blast’ pummeled Texas, US. The temperature plunged to historically low levels leaving scores of people deprived of electricity and drinking water. As per experts,...
What is a Low Carbon Transformation – Basic Concepts Part II
The urgency of addressing the climate crisis has been widely recognized by world governments, international organizations, various corporations, and the broader civil society. The Paris Climate Conference in December 2015 was a significant milestone...
What is a Low Carbon Transformation? Basic Concepts Part I
The urgency of addressing the climate crisis has been widely recognized by world governments, international organizations, various corporations, and the broader civil society. The Paris Climate Conference (COP21) in December 2015 was a significant...
Here’s How Multifamily RE Investors Can Cater to Remote Workers
We are living through a pivot-point in the United States’ real estate history. The remote work revolution, which began as a temporary solution to the global pandemic and has since become a new way...
How to evaluate growth stocks like VCs
Two and a half factors to assess growth investments. This post will cover the following topics: The importance of being in the right market at the right time How hiring and people management is the...
Value of Currency, Gold vs. Fiat; The Genuine and Spurious
Money is a verifiable document commonly admitted as payment for goods and services or repayment of debts. It functions as a standard of exchange, a unit of account, a reserve of value, and seldom...
Who is buying and selling stocks
Looking back, 2020 was a year that few will forget. From a market's point of view, it was a year in which “dumb money” (traders who chase trends) was the smart money. Global central...
Passive vs. Active Income
The notion of “your money working for you”. It is all about 3rd Party Monopoly. Most of us are familiar with the notion of; smart money. Those who do also may be aware of the...
Why Investors Should Consider Buy and Hold Real Estate
The real estate market has certainly been rather odd over the past year or so. Many (including myself admittedly) expected it to dip around the time the pandemic started. But that has not (as...
Socialists are taking over Wall Street
It does not happen every day that when reading the Wall Street Journal, I have to double-check that I did not accidentally click on the Onion web page. Or that it was not an...
Relationship banking – Advice from an ex-banker
I used to be a bank executive. Ever since then I have always maintained solid relationships with my banks, the ones I use today. Many people seem to underestimate the importance of the relationships...
Early-stage is not about speed
I’ve long been wanting to write about speed. I am developing my 4th startup in solo mode, and I cannot go fast :-). Is it an issue? A common perception is that speed is what...