Marko’s Take Written December 8th 2010 The Psychology Of Investing (Part 1) Successful investing is about far more than understanding value, balance sheets and quality of management. One also needs to be a pretty good amateur psychologist. Virtually all market tops and bottoms occur at emotional extremes: Bottoms coincide with widespread panic while […]
Marko’s Take High Economics Part 1: The Cannabis Industry (Originally Written December 23, 2010) Few national political issues are as clear-cut as the growing movement toward legalization of Marijuana. The reasons for supporting this NOW are numerous and quite financially substantial. With a few more votes and the stroke of a pen, we can take […]
Universal Basic Income Made Easy: Applied Markonomics101. One of the more controversial topics on various internet sites, and one threatening to go Full Mainstream, is a financial engineering plan commonly known as “Universal Basic Income” (UBI). While there are many hoped for “societal benefits” from the implementation of UBI, this analysis doesn’t consider them for […]
Can Anyone Win A “Trade War”? In the famous movie “War Of The Roses”, Danny DeVito plays a divorce attorney who imparts some incredibly insightful advice: “In a divorce there are NO WINNERS, just degrees of losing”. He might as well have been talking about Trade Wars. If you enjoyed and absorbed our piece yesterday […]
The 9 Laws Of Markonomics While understanding the economy and the political economy seems like an enormous and complex undertaking. it is not. Students spend years only to learn very little of practical value, but the topic itself is very intuitive and can be explained in such a way that even a high school dropout […]
Bitcoin or Bustcoin? Digital Gold versus Physical Gold Source: www.coindesk.com Introduction The first crypto-currency, known as Bitcoin (BTC), was introduced in 2009 and initially sold for roughly 6 cents. That same coin today now fetches approximately $19,000 sporting a monstrous 300,000-fold increase in its short 8 years. In 2017 alone, Bitcoin has traded from a […]
