An Autocratic Ruler needs to control the following to maintain a tight grip over both power and people-> 1. Education 2. Religious Interpretation 3. Taxation 4. Currency 5. Military 6. Monopoly Permits 7. Land 8. Unions 9. Publishing and Broadcasting 10. Property Rights
Of course, this is an expandable list!
Many are arguing that I should add more to it.
I just added a few domineering aspects, tools and policy interacting methods of governance, which a ruler might bring into use!
You may add more to the above suggestions.
In modern times, no leader, in the so-called developing world, outside the Fascist Southern European Region, the NAM Nations, LATAM Markets, and the OIC Bloc, had exercised so much control, across all walks of life, other than Late Lee Kuan Yew of #Singapore
I will not invest in a mutual fund, until and unless I won't carry out specific due diligence of my own.
These @MorningstarInc style fund reports are not very helpful.
You should know inside out about the management and especially the fund manager who will be managing your money.
The standard Bull Shit advice marketed in the industry by investor relations and advisory experts =>
Maybe you can check out the Sharpe and Sortino ratios for funds before investing.
If you understand risk management concepts, do check out the VaR - Value at risk figures of all the competing funds drawn from the universe of investment possibilities.
What are the commonalities among these three? 1. Marxist theory of surplus-value 2. Freudian theory of Libido, aka Id 3. Lévi-Strauss theory of Structural Anthropology
You must listen and try to decipher the CBC Massey Lectures delivered by #George#Steiner back in 1974 to answer the above tweet.
I have the greatest respect for this polyglot scholar par excellence.
So was Karl #Marx and his #Hegelian Materialistic #Dialectic that explained the economic history of social #evolution using scientific processes, a by-product of #Romanticism that had swept European Intellectual and Literary Circles?
Even Art and Sculpture are now being used to manage wealth by some private investment teams.
I won't be surprised if portraits and handicrafts become a major asset class for the HNW Clients.
Due Diligence Risks remain, and the possibility of money laundering can't be ruled out!
Wealth Management as a subject is rapidly evolving.
Private Banking and Wealth Management Teams are offering all kinds of exciting financial and portfolio management solutions for the long term.
Hence, managing the risks of such transactions requires new paradigms.
For e.g. I was speaking to a Wealth Manager at a conference a few years back!
He told me that even Aged Cigars and certain Alcoholic Products such as Cognac, Wine, and Champagne, etc. It is a great investment, as their value augments, as time passes by!
The impacts of exchange rate volatility on the monetary base has different scenario-based outcomes.
NFA and NDA both can increase and decrease with currency appreciation and depreciation over time.
It might become difficult for the central bank to mop up excess liquidity.
NFAs are Net Foreign Assets(foreign denominated balances) and NDAs(domestic currency denominated balances) are Net Domestic Assets.
That is how most central banks like to categorize the two components of the money supply.
It further breaks down into M1, M2, M3 and so on, etc.
Going back to the basics of Fixed Income Economics and Portfolio Investments aka Bond Markets, we need to understand, the liquidity preference theory, preferred habit theory, and market segmentation theory, to extrapolate yields & risk expectation formations across the rate-curve