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Macro Economic Trends

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2022 (1 posts)

2022 Key insights from Singapore Tech EcoSystem

2021 (4 posts)

Weekend insights with Jerry and Liza
An evening of insights with the Hutters
Observations at the heart of Permian basin
Observed second and third order impact of GameStop frenzy on market stability

2020 (23 posts)

Observations of a trucker from the trucking community
Weapons of Math destruction by Cathy O'Neil
A weird 2020 when 2008 repeated itself metaphorically
SPY macro signals for market wide sell offs
Chat with Quynh on trading
The dichotomy between privacy and health
The trouble with markets by Roger Bootle
Liar's poker by Micheal Lewis
Minsky moment and the three types of borrowers
Observations on our news reporting system as well as investment bank forecasting.
The AI economy, Roger Bootle
Chat with Johnson and Dad on CoronaVirus and crisis investing
Global warming and the four horsemen of apocalypse
Federal reserve rate cuts
Thoughts on Fake News
Conversations with Garis
Thoughts on Crude Oil
Book summary: George Soros the unauthorized biography
Book summary: What it takes, Stephen Schwarzman
The alchemy of finance by Georgo Soros
Corona Virus versus SARS virus
Chat with Joe and his dad
Dinner with Mansu

2019 (91 posts)

Book summary: Buffett the making of an American capitalist by Roger Lowenstein
Federal reserve maintains interest rates 11th Dec 2019
Analysis of MeetUp.com’s penetration into Japan and relevant mobile behavior on crowded trains
Book summary: The dollar crisis
French youth impression on President Macron
Experiments with managing our wealth gap
Eric Li on the new world order proposed by China
Investment Biker, Jim Rogers
Lee Kuan Yew, Interviews and selections by Graham Allison and Robert D Black Will with Ali Wyne
Federal Reserve chairman testifies before Congress 20191113
On China, Henry Kissinger
Examples of various networks failing at scale
Federal Reserve interest rate cut decision 20191030
Bloomberg is a laggard for trend reporting
General thoughts on Mark Zuckerberg’s warning of the internet’s role in Authoritarianism displacing Democracy
Growth Leaders Cocktail Hour & Modern CMO Panel
Constrains on world GDP levels
Simultaneous inflation and deflation pressures in China
An unchanging constant as the source of trust
Thoughts of various asset class type and their usage
Observed unwinding of credit in the market
Oil's relationship with the macro economic environment
Observations on how public opinion is shaped in the US
List of companies that have been heavily punished by macro economic trends to consider for purchase
Thoughts on excessive use of leverage
Chat with Punit
Observations of market behavior during the period of September leading up to October
Fluid dynamics within the markets
Book summary: Invest with the Feds by Robert R Johnson, Gerald Jensen and Luis Garcia Feijoo
LA trip to visit Johnson
Chats with Ilya on hedge funds
Evening out watching Rambo, last blood
Key insights from mooncake festival at house of Jerry and Liza
David Letterman interview with Barack Obama
The American Factory
Book summary: Understanding big debt crisis by Ray Dalio
Key insights from weekend with Jerry, Liza, Ada and Dan
Escalating tension in Asia Pacific and how history tends to repeat itself
Book summary: The Asian Financial Crisis by Shalendra Sharma
Afternoon with Tomasso on the limitations of Artificial intelligence's application
Book summary: The Savings and Loan Crisis - Lessons from a regulatory failure
Why banks are trading at or below net book value
Book summary: Barbarians at the gate by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
Key lessons from When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein
Insights from evening with Wine and Jam session with Adriene and Dennis, Birthday party with Konstantine
Insights from lunch with Andrew and Paul
Macro economic extension to loss aversion reversion to mean trading methodology - Government versus Government scenario
Donald Trump's August 1st 2019 tweet on additional tariffs
Federal Chairman Jerome Powell on 0.25% interest rate cuts
Manias, Panics and Crashes - balance of trade mechanism
Book summary - The Bank Credit Analysis Handbook by Jonathan Golin and Philippe Delhaise
Thoughts on avoiding the greater fool theory
The case for hastening the replacement of workers with AI
Summary of readings and conversations for the week
Key highlights of Fed Chair Jerome Powell's testification before the congress
Book summary AI super-powers, China, silicon valley and the new world order by Kai Fu Lee
Thoughts on systemic risk
ETFs disrupts hedge funds and democratizes playing field for individuals while driving demand for alternate data
Mark Zuckerberg chats with Yuval Noah Harrai on the Future of AI
Trends associated with GetData.IO
Analysis of the Facebook Libra Token
20190619 - Federal reserve chairman Powell’s speech
Book summary - the wealth of nations
Reflections on the subject of economics
Non-purchase of DOMO despite 10% dip
Guo Jia’s Ten Advantage Framework
Loss aversion reversion to mean exit strategy
Macro-economics negative spiral leading indicator
June 4th 2019 US/China trade war loss aversion reversion to mean pattern
Learnings on shorting the market during the May 2019 US/China Trade war
Key take aways from The Governance of China by Xi JinPing
Prediction on US/China Trade war to be verified in 2021
Key takeaway from Great Again by Donald Trump
The mushroom at the end of the world
Book summary - The Signal and the noise
Book summary: Everybody lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Post 2019 US/China Trade War companies for consideration
Insights from dinner with Josh
Key trading mistakes during execution
3rd June post effects of 13th May 2019 US/China Trade war on US markets
Macro economic analysis on US/China 2018/2019 Trade war
Donald Trump’s 3rd May 2019 trade war tweets on stock market index around the world
Book summary: The Fate of Rome
Insights from dinner with Yuan
Societal comparison between our current day and age versus the era of communism's rise
Insights from the week
Insight from dinner with Sujit
Key take aways from Trust me I am lying
Key take aways from the Blockchain revolution
Key take way from the Truth Machine, Michael J.Casey
Key observations of Chinese One Belt Road Initiative in Africa

2018 (20 posts)

Symbiotic relationships between man and other species
Key observations in Ethiopia
Key learnings: Les Capital, Karl Marx
Observations in Sudan
Key aways from Anabasis, Xenophon
Key take aways from Mien Kampf, Adolf Hitler
Deep penetration of Chinese in Egypt
Analysis of Saudi Arabia's revenue model disruption and technology trends within Jordan
Facebook is now a phase 3 social network
Observation on Israel and the Palestinian states
Necessity breeds innovation
Insights from conversations with Ilya
Book summary - Fault lines
Ray Dalio: Beating the stock market by learning history
Forum - Ten years after Lehman brother’s bankruptcy: where are we now and what lies ahead
On similarities between organizations and organisms
Insights from lunch with Jamie
Insights from drinks with Charles Wu
Insights from Steven
Learnings from QiXiang, Vivian and Angelina Wu