Sitemap - 2020 - Breezy Briefings

The Rise of Litigation Financing

I am long Norwegian Kroner into 2021. Why?

Authorities response greater than the damage?

Tales of a “CEO monk” obscure the business of faith in China

Get ready for runaway volatility

Californian Water Futures

The Fed is all out to fight deflation

Emerging risk of rising interest rates

Billionaire’s Secret Buyout Formula

The Secretive Town at the Center of the World’s Oil Market

Can China lead the world out of a recession?

Doing Business in China - State Comes First

Random walk down Silicon Valley's pre-IPO deal flow

Special - Burger King IPO

Volatility could rise in all asset classes

The Utility and Morality of Assassination

Special - Tax Havens and why they exist?

Why the Right to Repair movement is taking over the world?

Russia’s Search for Strategic Depth

Cognitive dissonance!

Pakistan, IMF and the illusion of economic reform

Markets are underpricing risk

The Chinese Dream of Simandou

Klarna Bank will be the world’s hottest fintech IPO in 2021

Markets turn lower as politics move centre-stage

What does a Biden presidency mean for the Indian economy?

Will it be an economic muddle post-election?

India and Pakistan’s Tug of War Over Kashmir

Did Xi Jinping Personally Scuttle Jack Ma’s Ant IPO?

Biden’s Dilemma

Stocks see mixed price action and increased rotation

The Dark Underbelly of the Indian Stock Market

Pfizer’s vaccine dominates the market

Are we at the cusp of a new world order?

Why isn’t Dream11 categorized as a gambling app?

Deconstructing the Lebanese central bank’s Ponzi scheme

Who is the world’s best banker?

What Happened to American Leadership?

What really happened at Quibi?

Who is the President?

Making money in the world's top social media shares.

It is crunch time with US elections tomorrow

India's Economic Tragedy is Sophoclean!

Will property cards be a game-changer?

Markets are falling

My bullish case for Singapore property and CapitaLand shares on SGX

Winners Curse - how to avoid it?

Markets hate uncertainty

Foreign Policy Stability Amid Political Chaos

China becomes crucial as election enters final leg

How to design Nobel Prize Worthy Auctions?

The Basmati Wars — India vs Pakistan

All eyes on the last presidential debate tomorrow

In Search of a Solution to Russia’s Strategic Problem

Yet another earnings week

Election news keeps up market volatility

Can Tata Sons regain its footing?

Conflict in the Caucasus and the New American Strategy

Loop Industries' plastic recycling technology is 'fiction'

Stock markets signal a Trump victory?

Freshworks - a global icon from India

Positive earnings surprise is a given

When Tokyo Stock Exchange Failed

Busy week ahead with Q3 earnings releases

Why did the Boeing 737 MAX crash?

AI & Semiconductors: Understanding The Next Industry Super-Cycle

Long Buoyed by High-Flying Emirates, Dubai Now Shares Its Woes

Gold, Bonds, Apple options, Stephen Roach, EM, DFM zombies

Bailout Impasse, Stimulus Drama

Subway bread wasn’t actually bread?

Will the election narrative turn towards China?

The Bullish Case for Alibaba Shares in New York

Trump’s health situation surpasses all other market news

As Turkey’s Economy Goes, So Goes Its Ambitions

How to think about risky lending?

Vodafone Tax Saga explained

Erdonomics' storm clouds

Stock markets on a knife edge

The Remittance Paradox

Crunch time with the first presidential debate in a few hours

Nikola - Fake it till you make it?

The fairest asset class of them all

US election debates starts tomorrow

Is China copying US near-abroad policy?

Crude Oil and Dubai Property Market

Japanese Equities, Pound Sterling and Ed-techs

Willy Brandt, Imran Khan and Elon Musk

This train has more to run on the downside

Can you make money from the Big Mac index?

Santa Claus, HSBC Dirty Money and Airbnb IPO

HSBC and the Ponzi Scheme Play

Markets gathering steam for more downside

$68 million brand behind a tourist spot

Will the US Supreme Court nomination alter the election rhetoric?

$40 Billion Semiconductor deal

Belarus' Next Episode

How technology is going to reshape society and markets

Udemy IPO, US Equities and Snowflake IPO

Berkshire Hathaway makes a killing on Snowflake IPO debut

New Turkey’s old politics

Four money making IPOs in this autumn of destiny.

US Equities strong up day may be misleading

Abenomics - What is it?

Uncertainty and speculation rule the markets

Eternal Brexit

Quid Pro Quo or not?

SoftBank Samurai's 50 Billion Bet

Druckenmiller predicts higher inflation

How do you make a small fortune in Dubai?

China again

Softbank and the NASDAQ Whale

Momentum to pick up after US Labor Day holiday

Is the world running out of copper?

Nothing Has Changed with Taiwan

A Case For Investing In India

The Mall Short

Buffet becomes Japan’s second largest equity investor

SpaceX - Tech Unicorn of a lifetime

The Mastercard Tax Saga

The games stock splits can play on you

Fed means what it says - “whatever it takes“

The Quest for Monopoly

The Poisoning of Navalny

Can Dubai enter the premier league of financial centres?

Big Short 2.0 - How Hedge Funds Profited Off the Pain of Malls

All Eyes on Fed Chair Powell’s Jackson Hole Speech Today

The Endgame for the Hospitality Industry

Turkey vs Greece – Dangerous Mediterranean Dispute

Things not adding up in this fairy tale environment

Disrupting Bloomberg

RNC 2020 - Trump family reunion

Get out of Palantir now!

Citibank's $1 Billion Blunder

Fortnite takes on Apple

Israel and UAE Formalize Their Normalized Relations

First cracks of a market u-turn?

Prologis idea was a fabulous winner in real estate

Markets at inflection as no love lost between Trump and Pelosi

The enemy of my enemy is my friend

When Bitcoin Adoption went Mainstream

Why India can't monetise its gold?

The Geopolitics of the Belarusian Election

What's happening to Boeing and Airbus?

Kamala Harris for VP; Tesla in the news again

How Walmart Can Beat Amazon at Its Own Game

Curious case of China and foreign trash

Trump exits briefing after shooting near White House

The Technology That Changed Air Travel

Trump vs Pelosi: Battle Royale

Trump and Microsoft want a slice of TikTok

From a COVID-19 Recession to COVID-19 Depression?

To Understand Jio, You Need To Understand Reliance

Beirut Blast - More Questions Than Answers

TikTok drama and Robinhood cartel

US stock market strategy and scenarios

Racial Cycles - The Storm Before the Calm

Will TikTok find a way to stay in the US

The Queen Elizabeth and the Prince of Wales

Big tech continue to soar

The Big Irish Sweetheart Deal

A Stock Picker's Market

The Water Crisis Explained

China's Zombie Steel

Fed leaves rates unchanged. Will the dollar fall?

The Truth About the US-China Thucydides Trap

My Favorite Ponzi Scheme…

Gold makes new all-time high

A Half-century relationship begins to break up

When strongmen move from push to shove

The Wirecard Scandals

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is tech’s next 10-bagger stock.

Understanding the Tesla Rally

How politics will rule the markets... and hurt the economy

The bearish case for the US dollar will continue

Why Reliance Jio can rise 5 times above its $64 billion private market valuation?

Spotify - Reimagining Audio

The UK makes a U-turn on Huawei.

Why Google committed $10 Billion to India's Digital Future

The Unbridled Ambition of Reliance Jio

The Currency Assault on Hong Kong Explained

Fed’s Generosity Manifesting in Quarterly Earnings

Wimbledon makes £114 million from pandemic insurance

It Is Earnings Season Again

Stuck between the devil and the deep sea

Russia's Arctic Ambitions

Understanding Facebook Ad Boycotts

Nikola: Vaporware Selling For ~$25 Billion

Every one wants inflation?

Stop the Chinese Shipment?

Hong Kong - The Despiriting Spectacle

Putin’s New European History - The Rehabilitation of Stalin

Is Lemonade more than another SoftBank growth-machine?

The 'Spies and Commandos' of Afghanistan

Fraud, Wirecard and the Future of Fintech

Economic Data, Masks and Hong Kong

The Unraveling of American Power

Should a cheque bounce be treated as a criminal offence?

Facebook faces mass advertiser boycott

Tech Giants Can Only Get Bigger by Backstabbing

Robinhood – Pinching the Poor to Fatten the Rich!

When €2 Billion went missing at Wirecard

Why Tech Rules? From Laggards to Leaders

Is the American dream over?

Will markets turn manic on Monday?

Kura Sushi (KRUS): Restaurant IPO w/ Playbook for Success

Recession or Depression

Are the stock markets finally turning down?

Suspended Loans and the Rolling Indian Banking Crisis

WeWork should be a cautionary tale for venture capitalists

Which will win out? A pandemic 2nd wave or a Fed liquidity deluge?

More sweat equity for startups?

Market-Economy disconnect and policy makers' dilemma

D-Day and Stalin

World ends today; market updates to continue... stocks heading lower

Extreme Makeover for Indian Coal Industry?

Tiger Global, the Flipkart sale and the Indian taxman

The Endangered Asian Century

India-China standoff; Stocks move lower

The Sand Pile Effect

You Learn From Good Businesses and Bad Trades

Are we in a Kangaroo market?

The Stock Market as Entertainment

Equities rebound, dollar higher, yields higher

When the Looting Starts...

Special: The 'right way' to boycott China

Stock market plunge and Fed's caution

British East India Company's Ghost is scarily alive

Equities trade choppily after Fed meeting

Will the Gulf currency peg survive?

Did Joe Rogan Get Ripped Off by Spotify

A Corrective Mania

Will US supply chain swing from China to India

Why Hong Kong's special status is in jeopardy?

Inside the Mind of Jamie Dimon

Markets surge as a stellar NFP report smashes all expectations

Mukesh Ambani's journey from debt to digital titan

Telecom Italia, Korea Telecom & Bakkafrost (Salmon)

Stocks rising. Earnings falling. Streets Burning.

Victoria's Secret deal undone

Israel and the New American Strategy

Deadly Trifecta – Economic Depression, COVID-19 and Riots

A bill to delist

Enter the Chinese Dragon

May 25 in Middle Eastern History

Stocks climb after Trump speaks on China and HK

Enlabs (NLAB): A High-Margin, High Growth Company For Cheap

Can Trump punish China without hurting US economy and his reelection?

Short Kontoor Brands: Front-run ETF Selling

The Coming Post-COVID Anarchy

Is Hong Kong's hub status in jeopardy?

The Rise of TikTok and ByteDance

Main Street Reopening and Wall Street Key Levels

Hong Kong security law and the future

Facebook Shops has made landfall

Back to the Future: China and the US

Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage

Is this the beginning of the end for Hong Kong's autonomy?

How Facebook Could Use Giphy to Collect Your Data

China - Australia - US Spat

How Domino’s Stock Returned 4,595%

What next for gold prices?

The Risks - Know Them - Avoid Them

Moderna, COVID vaccine and the market surge

Could Price Gouging Actually Fix Our Face Mask Shortage?

CDC reopening guidelines and markets

How the New York Times Pivoted Its Strategy

Is COVID-19 or its response the black swan?

Jorge Paulo Lemann’s Mea Culpa

Daredevil Startups Are Finally Exposed for What They Are

How Two Founders With No Health Care Experience Built a $2 Billion Oncology Startup

Fed chief warns of painful damage

Fauci and Senate from Home

Cities are resilient and will revive and evolve after coronavirus

Never believe a rumour unless it is officially denied

The Indian Rupee’s Gulf Connection

How Airlines Explain the Economy

A Dangerous Gap – Markets vs Real Economy

Is World War II over?

Will China replace the US as a global superpower?

WeWork's ex-CEO sues WeWork's biggest investor

Equities, Bonds, Euro and Gold headed lower while Amazon duels with Shopify

Is the RBI writing off loans for wilful defaulters?

Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway

Medical, Economic, Social, Military: The State of Play

What is this Reliance Rights Issue?

Markets to resume down move soon

Chinese Debt Could Cause Emerging Markets to Implode

Is the stock market following the Elliott Wave playbook?

Recession vs Depression

Heska Corp (HSKA): Growing Animal Diagnostics Company For Cheap

Earnings: Tesla, Facebook and Microsoft sizzle

Here Come The Zoom Startups

US GDP contraction worse than 2008

Will the Coronavirus End Globalization as We Know It?

The Fed - Arsonist and Fireman

How Much Money Does the World Owe China?

Equities at a turning point

Why Franklin Templeton shuttered $3.65 Billion debt funds

Are we in the Great Compression?

Kim Jong Un; The race to reopen

COVID-19 Economic Recovery & Metrics

Made in China, no more?

I Turned Down a $4 Million Term Sheet. Then the Coronavirus Hit.

IRS checks and EU rescue plan

The Pandemic Won’t Make China the World’s Leader

Investing In The Age Of COVID-19

Oil rally - a crude joke?

An existential crisis for Airbnb

Special Report: Where no oil has gone before

Fed Balance Sheet $6.3 Trillion

7 reasons to consider investing in small EM and Frontier

Is India erecting a Chinese wall?

Historic Oil Crash

Marc Andreessen: It’s Time To Build

Will Bill Miller be right this time too?

The Coronavirus Threatens Saudi Arabia’s Global Ambitions

Stock market on crazy pills!

Spotify - Reimagining Music

⚠️ DISCLAIMERS

Great Depression 2020? Part 2

Did Xi Jinping Deliberately Sicken the World?

The Trend Is Your “Friend”

COVID-19 Scalability Problem

The Beginning of Social Dysfunction

Unlike anything experienced in our lifetimes

Supply Chains and a Novel Path to Conflict

The Great Mexican Standoff

OPEC Cuts and Earnings Season

Risk Appetites and Global Markets in April

Fed Chairman Powell & “Project Zimbabwe”

The WeWork debacle is a symptom of a much larger problem

How a small candy company became Warren Buffett’s ‘dream’ investment

Will Gold or Silver Skyrocket?

How will India emerge from this lockdown?

The "Out-Front" Manoeuvre

Time To Start Reloading Your Shorts?

Markets are ‘risk on’ in the short term

Gold - The Least Bad Alternative

Can Coronabonds save Europe?

Gold - A bear market rally?

Contagion

What next for crude oil prices?

Luckin Coffee and the Anatomy of a Fraud

Batten Down the Hatches in Emerging Markets

Will the Euro crash below 1.0635? *

How Jack Welch’s Success Wrecked the Idea of the American Company

Great Depression 2020?

Is the world running out of storage space?

Emerging Markets: A Roadmap for the Post-Crisis World

How the EU is getting around U.S. sanctions on Iran using this neat plan

The Bull Case For Oil

Will April be as brutally volatile?

Coronavirus Closes Borders

Should We Save Lives? Or Save the Economy?

Modelling the US Reaction to the Coronavirus

Equities and bonds to see fresh lows

Economic parallels for Covid-19 pandemic

Investing in a Recession

Special Report - Gold - Q1 2020

WeWork, Softbank & the IPO Super-Cycle: Melting

Is the German stock market a good buy?

The Fate Of The Fantastic Four (Of Financial Engineering)

Corporate Socialism: The Government is Bailing Out Investors & Managers Not You

Sam Quawasmi on the Covid-19 Decade - Part 2

Will the US Energy stocks rally hold or fall apart?

Sam Quawasmi on the Covid-19 Decade - Part 1

Stock market shutdowns may cause long-lasting damage

Time To Buy Stuff?

Ticker Confusion: Short Zoom

Records broken, stock market broken?

The threat of negative oil prices

Can coronavirus threaten the Olympics?

Swiss central bank is down 40% in one month

Massive warning flag - $55 billion ETF dislocation

'Safe' asset gives up 9 yrs gains in 2 weeks?

Post-COVID-19: What Will Be Normal Five Years From Now?

Black swan, USD swap and Risk Parity (parody?)

In tough times, restaurants roll out a new investment opportunity: ‘dining bonds’

Do fundamentals matter in this market?

Is the Fed losing the battle?

Global markets facing $12 Trillion dollar margin call

If Italy goes to the brink...

The economics of cruise ships

Bear Market or Godzilla?

Will this be more like 1987 than 2008?

The hoarder who stockpiled 17,700 hand sanitizers

$74 trillion center of a new financial scare

Credit markets tsunami imminent?

3 stages of a bear market

Euro target is in the range of 1.1665 to 1.1875

Oil Prices & Geopolitics

Putin miscalculates in crude oil geopolitics

Gold is NOT a crisis hedge

US Money Center Banks

Ghost planes and flight slots

NMC's accounting scandal aggravates

Market Panics in Hindsight

Why oil prices have been tanking?

Storm Clouds - Markets & Election

AG Macro Brief - 10 Mar 2020

Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire

Oil price war; Zombie corporates

YES Bank Crisis; Crude Oil Plunge

HOW TO MAKE A MAFIA

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Coronavirus economic impact so far

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History’s first virus triggered global recession has already begun – and the Fed is clueless.

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