Month: November 2018

Remember getting presents as a kid? You’re so overwhelmed with excitement and joy to the point that you’re literally jumping up and down on the spot- most likely screaming and probably speaking a language that nobody can understand. Now you’re older. And you’ve just bought a new car. You jump up and down again. People turn and look at you. You don’t care. You experience the same feelings you did as a child, except with a dash of P.P.R. (What’s that?)

When we buy something that’s slightly more expensive and requires us to splash a little more cash we experience something called post purchase regret (P.P.R).

You’ll start to wonder whether you made the right decision and if the money could have been better spent. At some point you’ll inevitably ask yourself: “Could I have gotten a better deal?”

I think the last thing anybody wants to experience …

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$1 quadrillion, this is the value of the U.S derivatives. $1 quadrillion tied up in totally unregulated markets and the only information we can get about this pile of “money” is what bankers are willing to tell us. The value of derivatives market is more than 20 times the global economy as Jeff Nielsen mentions in his speech. This is the main reason why the U.S economy is struggling to get back on its feed and gain the investors trust again.

In 2008 when the state of the global economy was uncovered, Walls Street banks had to get the U.S accounting regulations changed in order to access these assets without letting the markets know the actual value of these papers. Without these changes the banks would have been reporting their own bankruptcies not record breaking profits, says Nielsen.

According to Nielsen there is no solution to the U.S …

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