Student Loans: The Next Financial Crisis?
More than the combined market value of both Facebook and Microsoft combined, the total student loan debt in America has reached $1.4 trillion. Past economic crashes like the Great Depression and the Great Recession...
Data Driven Statistics, Trends & Facts 2018
The most challenging part for me personally when writing a blog is to find the relevant data driven statistics about that particular topic. Often it takes a considerable amount of time to figure out...
How is the Gig Economy changing the future Jobs landscape
The makeup & dynamics of the workforce are changing with the ongoing automation & the emergence of the Generation Z - they are defined as the demographic who were born between 1995-2009 & who...
An Uphill Battle: Investment Culture Finds Its Match in Germany
By Claudio Brocado and Anthony Claudio Brocado This is the second installment in my new approach of collaboration with friends and family to supplement my own (admittedly still relative meager) knowledge base. After the piece...
Market evaluation of Bitcoin mini crash, Stocks slump & Pound’s woes
It was all about Volatility this week in the financial markets of the World - Cryptos, Stocks & Forex. We saw some wild moves, some trend changes & some newsmakers. Bitcoin finally caved into...
Year-end rally to come in global equities, led by emerging markets
I recently wrote that I would be enlisting the help of friends and family to help make up for some of my weaknesses when it comes to investment thinking, writing and executing. I am...
The Ins and Outs of Stablecoins
According to a report from the crypto-wallet provider blockchain, the amount of stablecoin projects carried out within 2018 have skyrocketed. It seems stablecoins have become the new rave in the cryptocurrency sector, with developers...
What is a Target Date Fund & should you consider it for retirement?
Retirement planning is one of the key aspects of the Personal financial management which a lot of us conveniently procrastinate about & forget to realize its importance until it is too late. The statistics...
The Italian Story: Easy Math, Somewhat Complicated Economics, Extremely Complex Politics
In recent weeks I have been covering the current Italian stalemate with the European Union regarding the Mediterranean country’s 2019 budget. Its targeted 2.4% fiscal deficit as a share of its GDP is three...
Italy must ask Turkey if it really should wish to have its own lira...
My proprietary net positive scoring (NPS) process has in recent weeks ranked both Turkey and Italy somewhat surprisingly well. In the last few days, however, the scores have diverged, and markets seem to be...
Circular Economy is the solution for a sustainable future
The concept of Circular economy is a relatively new one but has gained a lot of traction in recent years with the World moving away from the perishable and finite resources like coal, gasoline...
Decentralization, Diversification, and Antifragility
When asked in 1997 to single out some of the biggest challenges facing modern businesses, Tom Peters and Robert Waterman, authors of “In Search of Excellence”, both placed ‘decentralization’ as one of the toughest...