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The New Gold
The global monetary system needs financial and technological innovation. Peter Bernstein looked at gold from a historical aspect in his book ‘The Power of Gold, the history of an obsession. From the start of the Egyptian era in 3100 BC when Pharaohs ruled the Roman Empire, the author illustrated how gold slowly and steadily became…
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Life and coastlines
Some problems span multi-generations, Benoit Mandelbrot solved one such problem and earned himself a well-deserving place in history, as the father of fractals. Many of these mathematical structures and their descriptions go back to classical mathematics and mathematicians of the past like Cantor, Peano, Hilbert, Koch, Sierpinski, Julia, Hausdorff, but it was Mandelbrot who extended…
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The BRIC Model From A Japanese Perspective.
Starting with the fundamental idea of an “emerging market economy”, it’s role, utility and dynamics in the current global set up as a balancing economic block, the paper analysis Goldman Sach’s emerging BRIC’s countries model in context of the pre and post 2008 financial crisis. The paper looks at micro and macroeconomic valuations, currency and…
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Can the dollar Index reach 200?
The 1980s high was 150, talking about a 200 dollar target is much beyond the euro-dollar parity. What could be a few reasons a target beyond previous high at 150 may start assuming some probability? First: Dollar Index has made average 15-year cycles starting 1970’s. A bottoming cycle in 2008 at least suggests multiyear strength…
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Quantifying Social Mood
Classifying social mood and labeling it with wave counts is still an expertise, especially if you are new to Elliott Waves. Though Socionomics experts defined and developed an essential treatise on social behavior, quantification of Socionomics (the study of human social behavior) — like behavioral finance — isn’t easy.
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The Earthquake Science
Earthquake science can be used in markets because of time fractals. The earthquake science working for markets is an opinion as old as the butterfly effect and the study on Sun cycles influencing markets. Xavier Gabaix, assistant professor of economics at MIT, did not say that earthquake causes market behavior, but that large-scale events in…
