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Ray Dalio: Beating the stock market by learning history

  • History inevitably repeats itself
  • If a trend is occurring that you don’t have a good idea of how it will pan out, it is more likely because you have not lived in a time where a similar situation had happened before and less likely because a similar situation had happened before
  • Application of FinTech is to make it possible to leverage on assets that we have like the following:
    • Human Capital
    • Social Capital
    • Real Assets
  • An economy built on talent versus an economy built on natural resources and tourism tends to grow faster
    • Singapore versus Jamaica
      • important to educate local population to ensure they do not become second class citizens in their own country to highly qualified expats
    • Three Kingdoms – Cao Cao versus Yuan Shao
  • Algorithms for decision making
    • Be wary of purely deriving algorithms through data mining and regression analysis.
      • The user of this algorithm will not be able to decipher causation versus correlation
      • The training data available might be missing existing significant events
    • The algorithm should instead be a derivation of your own thought processes. Computers/algorithms should be used to complement human decision making instead of replacing it.
  • An environment of radical transparency is helpful towards supporting idea meritocracy
    • helps match individuals strong in one area with other individuals strong in complementary areas.
    • A real world ensemble decision tree model
  • On China
    • Main challenges the country face
      • Debt restructuring
      • Economic restructuring – the need to shift away from export focused economy to domestic focused economy
      • Develop capital markets
      • Balance of payments
    • Developments to date
      • debt being restructured
      • economic restructuring happening dealing with state owned enterprises. Fast development of cutting edge industries. AI advancements comparable to US
      • capital markets like Hong Kong depth of liquidity is impressive
      • balance of payment is being dealt with effectively due to capable leaders and ability to control via levers unique to a strong central government
      • Strong emphasis on kids education
      • Reinforcing Integrity of law through eliminating corruption

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