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The calm before the commodities end of month rollover storm - 2021 February 24
A rather big event is brewing in commodities prices now that we are getting close to the end of the month. Due to recent events this will have a rather large impact on a few things, especially silver prices.
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TIL a precise definition of eurodollars - 2021 January 31
TIL I realized that I had a misconception about the meaning of the word "eurodollars"
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The pandemic of mindless contactless payments - 2021 January 31
Against the backdrop of the Covid pandemic we have another pandemic; the pandemic of people who are mindlessly making contactless payments.
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A quick introduction to the mechanism of stock short selling - 2021 January 30
The last few days have seen another historic short selling squeeze in the markets, this time with the GameStop (NYSE:GME) stock. If you are interested in knowing why the price has moved the way it has it's important to understand how short selling works.
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Financial spam emails ratio - 2020 December 30
Is the ratio of financial spam emails to regular spam in the inbox a good indicator of mania in the markets?
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Who owns bank deposits? - 2020 December 16
A particularly common misconception people have is that they think have the title of ownership to the money that's in their bank deposit accounts.
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Why price impacts from Quantitative Easing can be delayed - 2020 December 02
Quantitative Easing is not necessarily inflationary in the way that people think it is. A lot of misconceptions exist about this, I probably have some myself, so I'm hoping to break it down a bit. I think inflation will eventually impact prices in a manner not seen in a long time but people will be caught off guard because some long standing deflationary trends will be more obvious first before the inflation really kicks into full affect.
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Slack capacity and food supply chains - 2020 November 02
Wasting some food is an important part of avoiding famines. There's an optimal amount of food that we have to waste in order to avoid the worst impacts of famines.
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Impacts of a dependence on backpackers and other foreigners on farm labour during a crisis - 2020 October 01
The other day I was watching a news report where some farmers were claiming they might not be able to get enough workers to pick their crops. At the same time Australia has the highest unemployment in a LONG time with many people desperate to work, so something doesn't add up here. Food security is important, surely we can figure this out.
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Margin investing is psychologically corrosive - 2020 September 26
Investing with margin/leverage has a bunch of particularly corrosive psychological effects that aren't talked about much. With retail investment providers offering margin accounts and volatility at especially high levels this is going to cause a lot of pain and suffering.
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