Besides exuding a vampire-like feeling (Elder just strikes me as a Vampire Elder, one of the three original Vampires: Marcus, Viktor, and Amelia), the man of the hour is Alexander Elder, a professional stock trader. Elder was born in Leningrad and grew up in Estonia, where he entered medical school at the age of 16. At 23, while working as a ship’s doctor, he jumped a Soviet Union ship in Africa and received political asylum in the United States. Or so his public profile often goes.
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The Economic Truth
Summing it all up two-zero-one-two
I wasn’t a big fan of creating new year resolutions until I read back what I wrote in 2010. It was an extremely difficult exercise to complete let alone to craft the first sentence. But I guess it’s worth the effort after all.
I reproduce the structure below and please grab a pen and a paper (preferably a book) for the following – there’s nothing to lose except for a couple of hours.
Show me the money
Academic definition:
A capital market is a market for securities (debt or equity), where business enterprises (companies) and governments can raise long-term funds. In primary markets, new stock or bond issues are sold to investors via a mechanism known as underwriting. In the secondary markets, existing securities are sold and bought among investors or traders, usually on a securities exchange, over-the-counter, or elsewhere. [source Wikipedia].
The truth:
Of Parallel Worlds and Circular Reasoning
Haven’t been blogging for some time now. Not sure if it matters. It’s not my fault because I failed miserably in my attempt to crack the codes of I Ching or better known as Book of Changes. It’s too difficult a text to understand.
Confucius said, “If I could add fifty more years to my life, I would spend them studying the I Ching. Then, I would not have any major faults.” Unless I am very much mistaken, that quote came from him when Confucius was about 70 years old. I am told that I Ching must be taught and couldn’t be learnt. You need a teacher. Hopefully I could find myself a teacher soon.
3 surefire ways to be rich
First lesson in aikido
Aikido, as we know it, is a defensive martial art (vs offensive martial arts like Muay Thai, fondly known as ‘the science of eight limbs’.) The founder, by the way is Morihei Ueshiba or known as O Sensei (which can be loosely translated to mean the great teacher). In honour of the teacher, a picture of O Sensei is usually placed in the dojo (i.e. training place) where students of aikido gather to train.