https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:AP:860c0e68-c8f1-460d-a8ba-c8e4d85ecd57 Ruchir Sharma’s above Op-Ed piece in the London Financial Times ends with this grim foreboding : I would like to think perhaps Ruchir Sharma inadvertently forgot to add that America is also over-indebted as never, never seen before… The omission therefore begs the question : why are we seeing today the strange phenomenon ofContinue reading ““American Exceptionalism” in U.S. Stock Markets: and what Ruchir Sharma forgot to explain to me”
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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “FINANCIAL LITERACY” AND “FINANCIAL HIGHER EDUCATION” is Anxiety and Hope
What is meant by “financial literacy” ? What do we mean when we say a person is “financially literate”? When a person who has worked so very hard in life to earn money and he at last realises that it’s about time he must somehow find ways and means to make the money so earnedContinue reading “THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “FINANCIAL LITERACY” AND “FINANCIAL HIGHER EDUCATION” is Anxiety and Hope”
Difference between “Growth” and “Value” investing is the difference between the “Hare and the Tortoise”
A good friend of mine, Mr. V. Ranganathan of Chennai, a top-notch, astute financial and taxation expert, forwarded me the Infograph you see immediately below but without comment, possibly thinking that it was best for him to leave it all to me to figure out myself whatever I wished to make of it. Like myContinue reading “Difference between “Growth” and “Value” investing is the difference between the “Hare and the Tortoise””
The Metaverse — another dimension of the Coronavirus and the “MAD”-virus
Dear Sri Ranganathan, Thank you for reading my piece on the subject-line and also for taking time out to pen your below comments on it … Some days I wake up in the morning, follow the news around the world and while reflecting on it , I fail to make any sense of it all…Continue reading “The Metaverse — another dimension of the Coronavirus and the “MAD”-virus”
New “irrational exuberance” of Bulls in the USA leaves Bears in the rest of the world cold…
The Earnings Per Share EPS is a financial metric that in one fell swoop tells owners of a company what the value of their shareholding in it is. It is calculated by taking the total Earnings (net profits after tax) and dividing it by the total number of shares held by owners. The higher theContinue reading “New “irrational exuberance” of Bulls in the USA leaves Bears in the rest of the world cold…”
The Fattest … and “more equal” Pig of them all …
The Top 100 Companies of the World: The U.S. vs Everyone Else The USA is still by far the fattest capitalist-pig in the world …. miles ahead of the rest of the pigs … proving clearly the famous Orwellian truth that “All Pigs are equal but some Pigs are more equal”. All the world’s anContinue reading “The Fattest … and “more equal” Pig of them all …”
You know guys… I do think the stock-market is “la la land” of morons, for morons and wholly of the morons … !
I saw this Infograph this morning and was in two minds whether it left me gawking or gasping in disbelief ! The TESLA car company has 50% of the worlds’s total market capitalised valuation … it leads and leaves far behind such venerable car-brands such as Toyota, VW, GM.. ..! And here I am inContinue reading “You know guys… I do think the stock-market is “la la land” of morons, for morons and wholly of the morons … !”