Musings of a 50+ year old boy – a halftime journey

Life has a way of throwing new adventures at you even when you think you are stagnating and not moving forward. We try our best to make way for fresh discoveries, to plan in advance for whatever is within our control to enable new doors to open. Sometimes life does throws you a curveball. We…

So much happened in America this week. 2 powerful Jan 06 sessions piled on more damning evidence on the orange one. The supreme court also just overturned Roe vs Wade last night. These 2 events will have lots of ramifications plus new late-night comedy material into the US mid-term elections in Nov. The long-delayed tightening…

Wikipedia defines a Ponzi as a form of fraud that lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors. The greater fool theory revolves around the pushing of an asset price higher by attracting more people and creating a FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) environment. The above 2 points perfectly…

I am a 56-year-old Asian male. I started this blog 6 years ago when I turned 50. I was at my halftime turning point trying to make sense of what I would like to do with the second half of my life given that I had worked and lived in this little red dot all…

And we have now just arrived into Jun. A halfway year to mark and review our plans for 2H’22. Time flies when too many global events, mainly negative, are happening all at once this year. An eventful half-year to date that most investors would like to forget. It was the exact opposite of 1H’21 where…

The Americans are really crazy. Non-stop multiple mass shootings only happen there and nowhere else in the world. And what do they do? Inaction for the past 20+ years and to deny the facts and reality. It has become even more frequent and predictable. Let’s look at the statistics first. Between 1968 to 2017, there…

Are we on track to get back to normal again after more than 24 months of the once in a lifetime pandemic? What is a Normal anyway? Does the Old even exist anymore? Everyone is trying to figure out how to get back to the previous way of doing things but yet this episode had…

Latest estimates are that the recent asset meltdown has whipped out more than $9 trillion of value year to date, much more than when the bubble bursted for the 2008 GFC or the 2000 Internet craze. This equal opportunity bear market had already caused the world’s 500 wealthiest persons to lose $1 trillion of their…