Safety, liquidity, risks, and T-Bills

Don’t get distracted. Stay focused on buying your own freedom.

Realizing the focus on narrative over reality is now widespread in every sector, slight course correction on portfolio, and thoughts on personal responsibility, and happiness

Looking at politicians suppressing volatility, inequality in society, and 3 billion smartphones now becoming a voting system for the strongest currency collide in the future.

Looking at the monetary policies, geopolitics, and conflicts of the last century to learn lessons about decisions facing politicians and bankers today.

The importance of an investment practice built on ample liquidity and productive assets that focus on scarce, durable, and independent as the Decentralized Future collides with the Age of the Disinterested Hegemon.

Looking at the geographical, political, economic, and social issues the CCP has in the South China Sea and why in a decentralized future that is bullish for Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

Taking a closer at the modern centralized world becoming more decentralized and the volatility in the transition.

Showing the process for evaluating risks, probability of occurrence and risk of loss if it happens. By focusing on the big picture first, looking at variables, then dialing in to see how it affects me as an individual investor can think clearly and make good decisions.

As the major economies of the world are the most leveraged they have ever been and need the global system of trade across oceans to continue to work perfectly more than ever before, the world’s only superpower is now energy independent and their deciding voting block will change from issues that matter to a 70 year old Baby Boomer to one of a 35 year old millennial in the next 4-8 years.

The world is changing, and most people don’t realize it.

What do you do every day, constantly strive to get better at, that improves not just your life but the lives of others?

That is a mission, and we all need one.

No other investment research paper has had a more direct or deeper impact on how I think about growing wealth, diversification, concentration, and risk management in an actionable way than the Allegory of the Hawk and the Serpent published by Chris Cole and his team at Artemis Capital. Here are my notes.

Why would someone want to build a 100-year portfolio in the first place? Short answer - It is an adventure with no end.

I don’t know if taking the long view is the right move for you, everyone has a different personality and different goals in life. But I can explain why I enjoy it.

Few places are more fascinating than the vast stretch of country which make up the Silk Road. From the streets of Istanbul, watching ships transit the Bosporus, to swimming in Lake Issyk Kul, which according to Kyrgyz lore formed from tears Alexander the Great cried over the death of a beloved general, through the Gobi desert, into China itself.