Month: February 2016

Drunk Super Mario and Luigi
Financial Markets
Chris MacIntosh

Can Binge Drinking Really Cure Alcoholism?

Have you ever wondered who these people are? The people who decide how much capital should cost, how much credit and cash should be issued. You know, the twits who dream up QE, ZIRP and NIRP. Where do they come from? Who pays their wages? Where do they get these

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Family Watching TV
Other
Chris MacIntosh

Disruption Right Where They Don’t Want It

Prosthetic eyeballs go for anywhere from $2,000 to $9,000 at an ocularist. You’ll be thanking me for this information, as the US election ramps into high gear and the deluge of political propaganda, I mean advertising, puts sane people everywhere at severe risk of stabbing their own eyes out with knitting

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Michael Burry Big Short
Financial Markets
Chris MacIntosh

What The Big Short Can Teach You About Investing

My kids have the mental age of ten and eleven year olds, because, well, they are ten and eleven years old! So, they fight pretty much constantly. For example: when my son wants past his sister in the hallway and she’s “in the way,” he hasn’t yet formulated the reasoning

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Donald Trump
Emerging Markets
Chris MacIntosh

2016: The Year When China Put Trump On The Throne

Note: The following is a parody. Characters are fictional (some, at least) and any similarities that may exist with people real or imagined are purely coincidental. Really! December 10, 2015, around 2 AM Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the PBOC, turns to his wife, unable to sleep: “We just spent $150 billion this

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