Musings of a 50+ year old boy – a halftime journey

A relatively quiet week for the markets as the US had a long Memorial day weekend. The only excitement was the release of Fauci’s emails from last year and accusations of more conspiracies from the usual GOP suspects. With mounting legal battles ahead, the orange one once again made a desperate attempt to rally his…

This was the week that cryptocurrencies continue to be volatile while trending lower. Too many Elon tweets have burst the bubble as BTC (Bitcoin) dropped from its 65k high to as low as 30K in a matter of days. It was like Jan 2018 for me again when my crypto portfolio suddenly went up 6x…

The week started with a call from an Indian minister to ask the people to be aware of the new S’pore virus variant mutation that affects children and to ban flights from that country. Funnily, the S’pore strain does not exist as it is had been already scientifically tagged and identified as originating from Indian…

In the Clubhouse app, chat room moderators have been using the term “room reset” periodically. What does it mean? When the discussion veers off the main topic or whenever there is some unwelcomed distraction, the moderator will call time out and ask for a room reset, to bring everyone back to the same page again,…

The Clubhouse app has been around for more than a year and a kind friend gave me an invite a few months back. I just wanted to share my experience of the app in this blog. Imagine if you can invite yourself into a unique room full of strangers from anywhere in the world anytime…

Quite an eventful week for me after a long period of non-event days on a personal front while covid again reared its ugly head. Just when we thought that Covid recovery is rounding the corner for everyone, the sudden and vicious flare-ups around developing countries like India and Brazil took the world by surprise. Multiple…

This week was one of those times where we experience once in a while. It was hard to figure out where the various asset classes were heading as prices were all over the place. It seems like there were multiple diverging views as investors try to grapple with the “what’s next?” million-dollar question. The stock…

US stock markets rose to historical highs this week. One will be hard-pressed to realize that we are still in the midst of a pandemic though. Markets are forecasting months ahead, where things could possibly go back to the good old times pre-Covid. It was a broad-based rise in the overall American indices where many…