My Thoughts on Current Events
17 Jan 2025 4 minute read 4 comments Perfectionist25
Does the title amuse you? In fact, it’s kind of true. You’ve probably heard the news that Trump has his eye on Greenland, the world’s largest island in the Arctic near the North Pole. Yes, he wants to buy it and make it part of Alaska. This isn’t the...
16 Jan 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Perfectionist25
Exactly ten years ago, the London Stock Exchange (LSE) proudly held the third place globally for raising money through Initial Public Offerings (IPOs). But today, it has fallen to eighteenth place. Meanwhile, countries you might not expect to be in t...
14 Jan 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Perfectionist25
In 1929, the U.S. stock market crashed, leading to a global economic collapse, or what we now call the Great Depression. The groundwork for this had been laid years earlier, during the years known as the “Roaring Twenties.” After World War I, U.S. fa...
12 Jan 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Perfectionist25
On Friday, we saw the Nonfarm Payrolls (NFPA) effect across all risk assets. The US saw much stronger than expected employment growth in December. 256,000 new jobs were added, while the unemployment rate fell to 4.1%. US 10-year and 2-year bond yield...
10 Jan 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Perfectionist25
Joby Aviation, a leading player in the emerging electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) market, has managed to attract investor interest despite still being in the pre-revenue stage. Since July 2024, the stock continues to perform remarkably, u...
9 Jan 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Perfectionist25
Today, I’ll look at how Japan’s interest rate hikes could disrupt yen carry trades and affect global markets. Let’s start with a story. Imagine three people. Two of them are really rich. One has a ton of money that he lends out at very low interest r...
7 Jan 2025 7 minute read 0 comments Perfectionist25
It is a better idea to buy stocks that are already expensive on the American stock exchange. Because if they are expensive, they can go up even more. There are many examples like this, especially in the technology sector. Since the beginning of last...
4 Jan 2025 9 minute read 1 comment Perfectionist25
Imagine a man who, with the money he holds in his hand, directs the world's largest companies, governments and even economies, and he does it silently. His extraordinary nature is not limited to his financial success. He has an interesting life story...
3 Jan 2025 4 minute read 1 comment Perfectionist25
In 1990, President George Herbert Walker Bush signed the Immigration Act of 1990 into law, launching the H-1B visa program. The idea was simple: to help American companies fill vacant positions in specialized fields like research, engineering, and co...
2 Jan 2025 7 minute read 3 comments Perfectionist25
The declines in American stock markets continued before the New Year, we were already expecting it. Because it is a profit-taking and tax harvest period in America. In other words, investors sell stocks that they lost money on so that they can deduct...
