Musings of a 50+ year old boy – a halftime journey
-
Mid Year Review, Next Steps – Week 118
And we have now just arrived into Jun. A halfway year to mark and review our plans for 2H’22. Time flies when too many global events, mainly negative, are happening all at once this year. An eventful half-year to date that most investors would like to forget. It was the exact opposite of 1H’21 where…
-
The Americans are Crazy – Week 117
The Americans are really crazy. Non-stop multiple mass shootings only happen there and nowhere else in the world. And what do they do? Inaction for the past 20+ years and to deny the facts and reality. It has become even more frequent and predictable. Let’s look at the statistics first. Between 1968 to 2017, there…
-
Trying to Get Back to Normal – Week 116
Are we on track to get back to normal again after more than 24 months of the once in a lifetime pandemic? What is a Normal anyway? Does the Old even exist anymore? Everyone is trying to figure out how to get back to the previous way of doing things but yet this episode had…
-
Crypto Meltdown – Week 115
Latest estimates are that the recent asset meltdown has whipped out more than $9 trillion of value year to date, much more than when the bubble bursted for the 2008 GFC or the 2000 Internet craze. This equal opportunity bear market had already caused the world’s 500 wealthiest persons to lose $1 trillion of their…
-
New York, Back to Normal? – Week 112/113/114
Yes, we survived our New York vacation and returned home safely on Thurs to a country that has almost no Covid restrictions anymore. It feels nice yet strange that we are seeing normalcy for the first time in more than 2 years. I was in New York for the last 2 weeks getting to know…
-
Oh Elon, the Master Twitter Teaser – Week 111
I like to start off the blog to say that I regretted selling my Tesla shares a few years ago. If I had held the 200 shares I bought then till today, it would have been worth USD 1 million now, I kid you not. At that time, pre-split, I was comfortably buying and selling…
-
Feeling Like Normal Again – Week 110
Things are slowing returning to normal again. The last 2 years seems like a long nightmare we have just woken up from. Though it felt like such a long period of time, the last 24 months also felt like they have passed us like a blink of an eye. S’pore is finally opening up and…
-
The Metaverse and NFTs – Week 109
The Metaverse and NFTs are concepts that I was originally very sceptical about. Just like ICOs and SPACs, I think that they are a bunch of scams pretending to fleece the man in the street. My views have changed a bit this week though. I attended a SmartNation event on the Metaverse and NFTs which…
Got any book recommendations?