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- Key Points from Book: Trillions
- Key Points from Book: Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
- Key Points from Book: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- Key Points from Book: THE SPECTRE OF WAR: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNISM AND THE ORIGINS OF WORLD WAR II
- Key Points from Books: Unraveled – The Life and Death of a Garment
- Key Points from Books: The Examined Life
- My New Year Covid Experience
- Key Points from Books: The Economist’s View of The World
- Key Points from Book: The Magic Money Tree and Other Economic Tales
- Key Points from Books: Blowout
- Key Summary from Books: Red Roulette
- Key Points from Iran: A Modern History
- Key Points: Has China Won? The Chinese Challenge To American Primacy
- Key Points from Book – VALUES: BUILDING A BETTER WORLD FOR ALL
- Summer Trip to Gaspesie and Tadoussac, Quebec
- Six Years After: A Personal Reflection
- Key Points from Book: The Price of Peace
- Key Points from Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
- Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
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Key Points from Book: Trillions
TRILLIONS: HOW A BAND OF WALL STREET RENEGADES INVENTED THE INDEX FUND AND CHANGED FINANCE FOREVER by Robin Wigglesworth Only 10 to 20 percent of active funds beat their benchmarks over any rolling ten-year period. In other words, investing is … Continue reading
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Key Points from Book: Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
Ray Dalio is perhaps the most successful global macro investor in the 21st century, with his fund Bridgewater being among the most watch investment house in the world. In this book, he synthesized factors that brought nations into becoming a … Continue reading
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Key Points from Book: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
by Marcus Aurelius, translation by Gregory Hays Ancient philosophy certainly had its academic side. Athens and other large cities had publicly financed chairs of philosophy, and professional philosophers taught, argued and wrote, as they do today. But philosophy also had a … Continue reading
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Key Points from Book: THE SPECTRE OF WAR: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNISM AND THE ORIGINS OF WORLD WAR II
Russian invasion of Ukraine and the disparity between the West’s democratic mindset against autocratic regime have led to a surge in interesting discussion related to the conflicts surrounding it. In the book “The Spectre of War”, Jonathan Haslam tells a … Continue reading
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Key Points from Books: Unraveled – The Life and Death of a Garment
During my Covid-related quarantine earlier this month, I stumbled into a fascinating book written by Maxine Bedat that tells the story of supply chain of a clothe that begins from a cotton farm in Texas, processed in countries such as … Continue reading
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