blog Coal To The Rescue Europe is in big trouble with energy prices expected to soar very high in winter. With the trade sanctions put on Russian oil, there needs to be another source for energy generation, and Europe is looking into "temporarily" relying on coal. Indonesia, the world's biggest exporter of coal used in
blog Entering Recession And Lessons To Learn Reuters today released an article that clearly shows the economic trends towards a recession. We are just about hovering over the 40% chance now. To sum up what the article is saying: The spread between the long-term and the short-term bond's yield curves is converging. This should not happen as
Streaming Service Bubble is Popped A couple of years ago, when the pandemic started, everybody was crazy about investing in Netflix. Being locked down and unable to do other forms of entertainment outside your home, almost everybody resorted to subscribing to Netflix. Naturally, their stock price soared, and people hyped up the Netflix stocks like
blog Metaverse Coins Price Crash I have always avoided investing in Cryptocurrencies mainly because I didn't see the intrinsic value of the coins. What actual use do they have in the real world? Some people argue Bitcoin is a store of wealth, a way to diversify your investments. Yeah, but that is not good enough
blog Economic Impact of Shanghai's Zero-Covid Lockdown I have recently invested in China, and it has been losing its value ever since. It was meant to be a long-term investment with a proper risk measured size, so I am not too worried about it. When I purchased the ETF, I hoped that I caught the bottom of
blog Portfolio Diversification Getting Harder If there is one thing we can all agree on, investing is more accessible than ever in our history. More countries have set up their stock exchanges, and their complete transformation to digitisation allows even foreign investors to easily buy and sell stocks from anywhere worldwide. With ever-greater access to
blog Intro to Metaverse Property Being a contrarian investor, I try to keep up-to-date with any price crash. I can do this by subscribing to about 20 different RSS feeds, and believe it or not, there are price crashes happening everywhere. Most of these are exaggerated or niche assets that there is no easy way
blog Russia Sells Oil For Rouble or Gold It's been a while since we have completely moved away from the Gold Standards. Back in the days when paper money was invented, nobody would accept them as payment unless you could exchange them later for some gold. Without this guarantee, paper money was just useless papers. But in the
blog Chip Supply Chain Bites Own Tail It looks like we are still in a mess with chip shortages. We have major chip suppliers like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (2330.TW) and Intel (INTC.O) trying to increase their supplies. But to supply more, they need more manufacturing machines that depend on chips themselves which the companies like
blog Agribusiness: Hedge to Inflation I remember waking up to the news of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and could not believe all the images I was seeing on TV. First of all, I offer my sincere condolences to those victims of this war. Since then, it has already been a month, and many things
blog Buy Stocks in a Bear Market? The S&P500 index recently had a furious rally after a continuous decline since the beginning of this year for about 2.5 months. 1-Day ChartAs you can see from the above chart, this rally has occurred for the past 1.5 weeks, and it has undone one month's
