I have a kindle. Thought it was a bit odd when I first used it…like single ply toilet paper, it works, but you know there’s better. Speaking of better. You know what’s better? Well triple ply of course…and paper books. No not paper books for that, that’s gross…for reading. Paper books for reading. Better than… Read More
What Does Your Investment Portfolio Diet Look Like?
If eliminating carbs and sugars from your diet would help you shed that spare tyre, in oh…say two weeks, you’d be motivated to commit to saying nein to that pizza and cheesecake, right? Wrong. After five years, as many as 95% of dieters will be back to where they started, and 41% will have regained… Read More
Macro Hedge Funds: Creating The Right Mix of Assets
I have a friend. He’s a gold bug. He’s also…how do I say this? Eccentric! I went around to his house recently and he showed me this gold bar. He’s using it as a door stop. I mean it looks like what it is. A bloody gold brick. It’s a small brick. A 1kg bar…. Read More
Lessons from the Russian Ruble collapse and What it May Tell us About Bitcoin
It was 1998 and the Ruskies were having a bad time…. Not a “bad hair day, dog shat on the carpet sort of bad time. No! A really f’ing bad time. For the previous decade they’d been running a fixed exchange rate that was tenuous at best. Though they where running a fiscal deficit that… Read More
German Energy Policy – A Page Out Of Crazy!
Germans are awesome but Gawd their government is f’ing dumb. Here they are implementing their new energy policies. In the article “verdammt-dumm-germany-takes-stupid-to-a-new-level” last year when discussing Merkel we predicted that…. “she managed to form a coalition government that’ll now (because it’s left of left) pursue certain policies which are … how do the Germans say… Read More
