Will The Inflation Reduction Act Reduce Inflation?
Send us a textThis Tuesday Joe Biden signed into law a sweeping tax, healthcare, and climate bill, called the Inflation Reduction Act, a significantly pared back version of the “Build Back Better Plan” which he was pushing for last year.Fans of the new law claim that it will improve citizens’ finances while reducing the federal deficit and critics say it will lead to higher taxes for individuals and corporations, and that it will be ineffective at dampening inflation. Let’s look at the new le...
19 Aug 202217min
A Mistake To Avoid!
Send us a textThis week, let's talk about Cathie Wood and The Ark Invest Disruptive Innovation Fund to see if there is anything we can learn from the rise and fall of ARKK? What mistakes do investors make when selecting funds to invest in.Jack Schwager - Market Sense & Nonsense: https://amzn.to/3SKBRgt Patrick's Books:Statistics For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3eerLA0Derivatives For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3cjsyPFCorporate Finance: https://amzn.to...
12 Aug 202213min
What Killed Sri Lanka's Economy?
Send us a textIn late June, Sri Lanka’s prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe announced that the country’s economy had “collapsed.” There was no money left to pay for imports of necessities like food, fuel and medicine, and the country was seeking help from neighboring countries and the IMF.Sri Lanka is going through its worst economic crisis since it gained independence from Britain almost 75 years ago. In today's video we ask the question, "What Killed Sri Lanka's Economy?"Patrick's Books:Sta...
4 Aug 202215min
China's International Debt Crisis
Send us a textIn 2013 President Xi Jinping announced the launch of his signature policy, the Belt and Road Initiative, the largest transnational infrastructure program ever undertaken by a single country. Today though, many of the loans financing these huge infrastructure projects are going bad and going bad in record numbers. Today's video looks at the Belt and Road Initiative, how the projects are going and how recent events like Russia's invasion of Ukraine are affecting debtor natio...
27 Juli 202221min
Will Elon Musk Be Forced to Buy Twitter?
Send us a textThis Tuesday, Twitter’s sued Elon Musk to force him to honor his legally binding agreement to buy the company. Twitter asked the Delaware Court of Chancery to fast-track a trial for September. According to the complaint “Musk apparently believes that he — unlike every other party subject to Delaware contract law — is free to change his mind, trash the company, disrupt its operations, destroy stockholder value, and walk away.”The Delaware court will examine the case on its merits...
16 Juli 202222min
Is DeFi Really Decentralized?
Send us a textLast week, three DeFi (decentralized finance) groups stepped in with emergency plans to protect their projects and users from economic turbulence in the face of collapsing cryptocurrency prices.These DeFi crypto networks which had pledged to put users in control ended up taking charge themselves in order to survive the ongoing crisis in the digital asset market.Patrick's Books:Statistics For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3eerLA0Derivatives For The Trading Floor: ...
25 Juni 202216min
Investing In An Inflationary Environment!
Send us a textInflation has turned from transitory to pernicious, with some economists even raising the specter of a 1970s-style wage-price spiral. Should you reposition your investment portfolio for an inflationary environment, shifting some of your money to sectors or asset classes that tend to do well during inflationary periods? Or should you leave your investments alone and let the markets control their long-term destiny? In today’s video we look at market history to see how securities p...
17 Juni 202220min
The Rise And Fall Of Blitzscaling!
Send us a textBlitzscaling is what you do when you need to grow really, really quickly according to Reid Hoffmann the Founder of LinkedIn, and Elon Musk’s former partner at PayPal. Blitzscaling is high-impact entrepreneurship, it’s the science and art of rapidly building out a company to serve a large and usually global market, with the goal of becoming the first mover at scale.Patrick's Books:Statistics For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3eerLA0Derivatives For The Trading Floor:&nb...
8 Juni 202220min
