BARELY 8% OF new-year’s resolutions survive until the end of January. Some people set goals that are too optimistic; While others simply set too many goals. Maybe, the biggest reason why people fail so miserably is that changing a particular behavior is difficult if the routines that are tightly woven around it remain the same. …
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I was teaching economics in my CFA Level I Batch for the Dec 2020 session. As I was discussing the national debt to GDP ratio of a country, there were two arguments about whether we should be concerned about the national debt. While discussing the arguments in favor of being concerned about the national debt, the …
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Peter Zeihan, in the 73rd CFA Institute Annual Virtual Conference, discussed the global order that is about to collapse. Below is a summary of his interview: There have been two major reasons why we moved in this direction. The American Order The first is the American order. Before the Americans, the trade system, the trade …
In the 73rd CFA Institute Annual Virtual Conference, Campbell R. Harvey discussed the current and past financial crisis. He talked about events that lead and some events that lag the crisis. He also discussed the economic paths forward. Below, I summarized his discussion: Relationship of Inverted Yield Curve and Recession I’ve been interested in recessions …
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I have just finished the book, “The Great Reflation”. It is an enjoyable book that discusses allocating assets in a turbulent world. This is because investors must deal, not with the should-be world, but with the actual world and its elevated risk and uncertainty. There have been a lot of misconceptions about Gold as an …
The Great Reflation: The Age of Inflation My interest in studying financial and economic history started evolving when I came across a wonderful book by CFA Institute Research Foundation named “Financial Market History” 2/3 years ago. After studying this, I understood how important it is to understand the financial market history, policies, regulations, and investors’ …
Economic growth has always been a mystery to many of us. It is always difficult to understand and make projections on a country’s economic growth. It is also increasingly difficult to build models and make projections on the growth of an economy. Economic output represents the aggregated activity of billions of people, influenced by forces …
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