Seth Levine: COVID-19, a Catalyst against Passive Investing
"Capital steadily flowed into passive investment vehicles for decades. This created a self-reflexive loop..."
"Capital steadily flowed into passive investment vehicles for decades. This created a self-reflexive loop..."
“The Abortion Act, whether we like it or not, allows abortion in strictly exceptional circumstances. It cannot be abortion on demand.”
"If this trend continues, China’s one million+ club will most likely expand once fresh census data is released in 2021."
"When food and energy prices begin to soar, you’ll want an asset that can help you maintain the lifestyle you’ve worked so hard for."
"Governments especially in Europe are increasingly being more and more influenced by childless politicians and activists who have the infinite free time to push their agenda, while those with families are far too busy and too economically fragile to fight back."
"The bigger shock was that in response to this Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev dissolved the current government willingly and resigned as Prime Minister."
And by the time the Indian workforce age group hits 800+ million people, it will be interesting to see how things interplay with the world’s inevitable technological shift to automation and a changing role for labour.
It is unclear how rural counties will fare as their denizens continue to dwindle. What is clear is that the few that rely on natural resources for success will continue to experience the ups and downs of volatile commodity markets.
If Russia had the population density of Bangladesh, it would be home to 19 billion people.
"The median net worth of households in the middle 20% of income rose 4% in inflation-adjusted terms to $81,900 between 1989 and 2016, the latest available data. For households in the top 20%, median net worth more than doubled to $811,860. And for the top 1%, the increase was 178% to $11,206,000."
“Today we are borrowing our children’s future with debt. We are witnessing the ‘hosing’ of the young.”
Rather than fight the fiscally conservative fight, Boris caved, and promised to open the sluice gates of public spending, thus ensuring future progressivistas would be handed an even larger national credit card bill to repay.
Rather than being enlightened, Boris Johnson's 'people of talent' approach poses a major threat to the ability of British workers to secure the most coveted positions in the labour market.
As I write Sir Mark Sedwill, Britain’s National Security Advisor and ex head of the Civil Service has said such fighters could be repatriated if proper measures could be set up to dealt with them. One suspects such measures will probably not involve trials. The courts will be too busy trying our own troops.
A disaster of epic proportions would have to take place soon so that the globalists could then spend the next decade using the resulting fear to convince the surviving population that global governance is needed.
If you look at the G20 countries, the twenty largest economies in the world, at least 80% of them are already in decline.