Lost Decades
Whilst looking through one of my folders for an example for the current mentor group I found this chart from 2 years ago. Off the top of my head I would guess that things hav not improved much in two years.
World Wide Income Distribution
Interesting graphic from Nat Geo of the distribution of income. Click image for interactive version.
Our Predictions Are Shit……..Who Cares?
I have opined at length about predictions within the financial market and how crap people are at making predictions and how they and everyone else dont seem to care about their lack of accuracy. Their is not the slightest hint of embarrassment among experts that they are continually wrong. This nice little piece by Robin…
DetailsThree Months After
This is from a photo essay from Boston.Com If you look up resilient in the dictionary it might simply say see Japanese and under Japanese it might say see resilient. Meanwhile I am still waiting for my local water supplier to come and fix a leaking pipe outside of my house….its only been a year…
DetailsWe Are Soft
Never was so much owed by so many to so few
Easy To Start A Hedge Fund………Harder To Keep It
(Reuters) – Opening a hedge fund is easier now than it has been in years, but keeping it open is a lot tougher, data released on Thursday show. During the first quarter, 298 new hedge funds opened their doors for business, the largest number of launches since before the financial crisis, performance and asset tracker…
DetailsShares Look Cheap….Apparently
I just opened up an email account I keep for subscribing to various bits and pieces that I dont want cluttering up my inbox to be greeted by the ASX Investor Update which is always good for a giggle. The feature story in this one is – Shares Look Cheap. My immediate response was well…
DetailsGold And Silver
The following two charts caught my eye simply because of the congestion of price.
