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YOU ARE THE AVERAGE OF THE FIVE (5) PEOPLE WITH WHOM YOU SURROUND YOURSELF

I went to Alliance – An immensely loaded statement despite its diminutiveness. The bearer invokes pride of association to an institution with a rich legacy and storied history. It signifies membership to an illustrious group of alumni that boasts captains of industry and titans of government. At one point, Alliance ...

INFLATION THROUGH THE EYES OF BRIDGERTON

US inflation data for the month of November 2022 has been released. Actual year-over-year (YoY) Consumer Price Index (CPI) came in at 7.1% against an estimate of 7.3% and actual month-over-month (MoM) CPI was 0.1% against a forecast of 0.3%. YoY CPI for the month of October 2022 was 7.7% whilst its monthly equivalent was ...

FINANCE IS ART! QUITE LITERALLY

A JUXTAPOSITION OF DERIVATIVES WITH FINE ART A while back I visited Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). My friend and I went to see the Monet and Boston: Legacy Illuminated exhibition. An eminent French painter of the 19th century Impressionist art movement, Claude Monet, drew inspiration from nature, the French ...

LIPSTICK ON A PIG DOES NOT MAKE IT A SUPERMODEL

PRICE IS WHAT YOU PAY; VALUE IS WHAT YOU GET In 2002, Charles Schwab ran a commercial showcasing the sales manager of a rival brokerage firm urging the traders to push the sale of a stock with weak fundamentals to unsuspecting customers because the institution had been incentivized to do so. The winner, that is, the ...