INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Jan 23-29, 2023
The US Debt Ceiling and the Growing Threat of De-dollarisation
Last week US Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, bumped her head against the Congressionally approved debt ceiling. Congress would need to raise it, for USA to...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Jan 15-22, 2023
Yak-yak is better than ack-ack!
The illustration above (created using a software called DALL -E) indicates the perils of ignoring inter-dependency; if they let go, both would fall in the abyss.
The world is so inter-twined...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Jan 8-14, 2023
Yes, if the myopic polity gets off its high horse!
The latest of several exciting technological innovations is ChatGPT. A chatbot, launched by OpenAI in November 2022, it performs as a code editor, an idea...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Jan 1-7, 2023
Conflicts, Distrust, De-globalisation, Inflation, far too many canaries
The Ukrainian Canaries: What a tragedy of errors the collective West has made, by not giving heed to Russian concerns over NATO expansion, but, instead, engaging in...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Dec 25, 2022 - Jan 1, 2023
The role of financial and technological innovations in their rise and demise
In November 2022 crypto exchange FTX, once valued at $ 32 b., collapsed, along with its sister concern, Alameda...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Dec 18-24, 2022
A Credit Event Will Trigger A Crisis
The ancient Egyptians were wiser than today’s Central Bankers. They built pyramids with broader bases and narrower tops. This is, of course, a stable structure. Today’s Central Bankers...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Dec 11-17, 2022
Too many factors make it difficult
There are too many factors working towards pushing the world into a recession. Some countries may already be in one. The creation of excess money supply to help during...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Dec 4-10, 2022
Curiouser and Curiouser, unbelievably stupid decisions by world leaders
Just as Alice exclaimed, some decisions made by the collective west are getting curiouser and curiouser. At the October/November 2021 Glasgow COP world leaders made pledges...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Nov 27- Dec 3, 2022
De-globalisation and de-dollarisation are worrying trends
A dip into history is necessary to understand the context.
America had, post the two world wars, taken over the mantle of global leadership from a war ravaged...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Nov 20 - 26, 2022
Economic losses from wars, corporate frauds, and bad lending
Countries create the systems, and the infrastructure for citizens to earn a living, cumulatively termed GDP, or gross domestic product. Alas, this cauldron, containing...
