Category: Financial Markets

Metropolitan Opera
Financial Markets
Chris MacIntosh

Can You Hear the Fat Lady Singing? – Part I

Raoul Pal, author of the Global Macro Investor and the co-founder of Real Vision TV, is one of my favourite thinkers and investment minds. Regrettably I’ve not met him… yet, though I’ve been fortunate enough to meet his business partner Grant Williams, who is both smart, genuine and intellectually curious.

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NYSE
Financial Markets
Chris MacIntosh

NYSE “Glitch”… Really?

Yesterday I was speaking with a business partner who’s in Hong Kong for some meetings. He mentioned that many Chinese see the collapse in the stock market as an American conspiracy ahead of the IMF currency decision. It’s curious how humans can be so blind to the obvious. I understand

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Greece Flag
Financial Markets
Chris MacIntosh

While the World Watches Greece THIS is Happening

Watching the ongoing Greek saga unfold is enough to make a blind man grimace. Capital controls which could be seen coming down the track like a freight train are but one more notch on the disaster stick called European Monetary Union. Why talk of Greek debt negotiations is even taking

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Roller Coaster
Financial Markets
Chris MacIntosh

You Cannot Go Unprepared into This

A recent conversation I had with an exasperated parent of a teenager showed me how horribly things can turn out if parents have no discipline when raising kids. If parents have been spoiling poor little “Johnny Snotbrat” for most of his life and let him get away with murder at some point

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Mountain Peak
Financial Markets
Chris MacIntosh

This One Thing Has Killed Before and It’s About to Kill Again

While on a weekend hike with my family a few weeks ago I bumped into a very experienced alpine climber and we started chatting. This guy had climbed some of the most treacherous alpine mountains that the planet can chuck at you. I’ve never had the inclination to climb like this

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Faith in Chaos

I’ve been absent for a few weeks and for that I make no apology. The recently concluded New Zealand meet up over the last few weeks left me with little time for luxuries such as sitting down to jot out some thoughts to you. Hopefully, when I do get something

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Is This How It All Begins to Unravel?

My daughter found a sick baby bird in our garage a few weeks ago. We took it in and began nursing it back to life. My daughter, a gentle little soul who believes that our home should be turned into an animal shelter for every imaginable creature whether it needs

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