Category: Capitalist Viewpoints

Cleaning Old Peoples’ Feces – A Growth Industry!

Fresh out of high school I had many goals. Like most goals mine posed some challenges, with a lack of money being centre stage. How to fund tertiary studies, eat, live and pay for it all? I had ventured to a foreign land which enabled me to earn higher wages,

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Betting on an Inevitable and Overlooked Crisis

It seems as if all the present focus in financial markets is on Europe and “solving” their debt crisis. Debt is by far the biggest problem facing the developed world. What is interesting is that there lurks a far greater crisis on the horizon in my opinion, one that dwarfs

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Traditional Media & The Switch To Blogs

Traditional media is dead! The well-coiffed pigeon-chested peacocks that attempt to pass as conveyors of news may not know it yet, but it’s true nonetheless. I was recently sent a bubble vision clip (CNBC), you know that cradle of financial market intellect. After viewing it I concluded that there ought

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Education versus Schooling

Screw it, I’m not going to send my kids to university when they complete their schooling years. I’m going to send them travelling, and not only that – I’m going to make them pay for it. When they inevitably spend a day, thankfully still in the distant future, throwing up

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1 Simple Step On How To Become A Better Investor

We’re always wrong. No matter what amount of analysis we do, what level of due diligence we engage in, we are always wrong in some aspect of our vision of what is going to happen. This is a hard and fast fact. It doesn’t matter if it’s the macro view

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Exploits of a Capitalist

I was 16 years old and knew how to handle myself. I was fit, lean and had spent a lot of time in the gym. OK, I was skinny, maybe even scrawny and the gym workouts had likely done more for my ego than my physique, but… I had watched

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Don’t Go Getting Cute with Giant Moves

Most readers will by now be well aware of the cliff that the precious metals stepped off last week. I’ve got a few thoughts related to this. When looking rationally at our private equity portfolio of companies we are funding via PP’s, or in fact any unlisted and illiquid investments,

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Why Not to Buy Your Own Home!

Home ownership is the most popular religion of the 21st century. It’s even more popular than stupidity and that’s saying something. If you wish to become a pariah amongst your fellow natives simply tell them that owning a home is not an investment, then tell them it’s potentially one of

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