Author: Chris MacIntosh

The Real Reason For A Refugee Crisis In Europe

Wikipedia describes a Ponzi scheme as: “A fraudulent investment that involves the payment of purported returns to existing investors from funds contributed by new investors. It is an investment system where the investment profits are paid with the money from other investors, and those who experience profit believe the profits

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Financial Markets
Chris MacIntosh

Hold My Beer – Let’s Watch SoftBank Venture Capital Plunge

Imagine this. You’re holding what has become the world’s biggest basket of profitless, often fraudulent (I’m looking at you, BABA), and insanely overvalued, illiquid securities. You’re one man at the helm of a ¥11.6tn empire with sole discretion as to how you operate. Sure, you’ve got shareholders. But the way

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Weekly Recap
Chris MacIntosh

DM Me If You’re A Dwarf

Isht You Wouldn’t Believe Last week was “Nazi pride week” in Mongolia. Pic taken on the steps of parliament. No kidding! When I first visited Ulaanbaatar, I was puzzled at the Nazi bars. Seemed sort of like a theme bar — kinda like you’d expect maybe a weird vampire themed

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The Art Of Finding A Mountain

I have a question for you today. Two actually. Both come from subscribers. But before we get into them, some thoughts on life goals. Yeah, that’s the topic today (as you’ll see from the questions shortly), but not in the “rah rah, self help, visualize yourself with a Lambo, do

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MMT: The Cure More Dangerous Than The Disease?

Watch this: It’s called obligate siblicide. That’s pretty screwed up. You know what else’s screwed up? The largest economy in the world and bearer of what is still the world’s reserve currency has an ever increasing debt pile, which looks close to toppling over. Now, I’ll take this opportunity to

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Insider
Chris MacIntosh

Insider Weekly: Is This It?

Hello, and welcome back! Lot’s of good stuff this week. When it comes to holiday breaks, some men go fishing, getting sea sick rocking in a boat while being sunburnt, or sitting on a muddy bank of a river playing with soggy foul smelling bait (and then there are others

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Insider
Chris MacIntosh

Insider Weekly: The “Profitless Prosperity Sector”

Hello, and welcome back! Thanks to subscriber Richard for this sunset shot from Northern Thailand. And this one from Stephen. Northeast Florida. This Week Notre Dame: Special edition UBER IPO A twist on shipping Brilliant — daring to tread where no one else will Water is the new coal Copper

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