Michael Dee sees markets differently to a lot of other investors. In 2008 while the global banking system was collapsing and investors panicked, Michael quit his job at the Queensland Investment Corporation to start his own fund. In the 10 years since Michael has established Pythagoras Investing, a unique way of timing the market by…
For anyone curious about investing in the stock market, you need to know how and why it works – click here to get your copy of our Guide to Investing by Pythagoras. Below is the table of contents. Chapter 1: Shares What is a Share? What can I do with my Shares? Chapter 2: Making…
The world is, at the moment, in a perilous place. The USA is putting itself at odds with most of the world and is endangering itself and its allies through its war of words with North Korea. Added to this is a burgeoning amount of natural disasters, not able to be controlled by the words…
In light of the proposed trade sanctions proposed on our region, we wanted to pose the questions, where does Australia tie itself? Where should it? As we recently wrote about in our blog on the North Korean Missile Crisis there is significant influence possible by President Putin over North Korea’s Supreme Leader. Putin characteristically takes…
Pythagoras leads the market in predictive investment knowledge We provide stock recommendations that are ahead of the rest of the market using our mathematical predictive logic that allows us to predict future share price moves. Pythagoras makes investing easy! Buy and sell recommendations are emailed to our clients for their chosen stocks during the day…
Japan: Proud & Independent Firing a missile over Japan was a tactical error by the Supreme Leader of North Korea. It is one thing to play bluff with the US but to tease Japan in this way is to insult their culture and heritage. They have awoken the giant. Economically, the furious activity to ready…
Whilst it appears through cultural and trade links that the person most able to influence North Korea’s Supreme Leader is the President of China, in reality Xi Jinping is not the only one nor is he the main one. The one who Kim Jong Un tries to copy the most is the President of Russia,…
Pythagoras leads the market in predictive investment knowledge We provide stock recommendations that are ahead of the rest of the market using our mathematical predictive logic that allows us to predict future share price moves. Working with Pythagoras: Predicting Events Pythagoras makes investing easy! Buy and sell recommendations are emailed to our clients for their…
A democracy is meant to quickly respond to the wishes of the people through their elected representatives, each with an equal voice. In a democracy, politicians can influence the will of the people, but never dictate to them. When people vote to install a political leader in a democracy it is expected the leader can…
The situation between the USA and North Korea raises a lot of issues for consideration. The actual threat of a war is very small, for whilst North Korea might bloody the nose of the US, it would result in them being set back many years as their country is razed through bombing. The leader of…
Weapons of Mass(ive) Destruction: A Lesson from the Past CDO’s were sophisticated financial tools that banks used to repackage individual loans into a product that was to be sold to investors. They did this because it was a source of funding to make new loans and to grow faster; it moved the loan’s risk of…
When we boil it all down, it was greed and the escalation of greed which was the root cause of the GFC. The re-emergence of a number of Greed indicators show a worrying trend. Some of these are already present, some are occurring currently and yet others still developing. Over time we will track the…
To have any hope of getting your head around China its important to understand China’s motivation. In our view their drivers are to industrialise, create employment and sufficient infrastructure to create a sustainable economy for the long term. The difficulty for China is that to industrialise it requires 20-40% of worlds natural resources, EVERY year.…
A river of capital flowed … bail-outs, interest rate reductions, printing money, special banking arrangements etc. Worldwide stimulus packages flowed including a massive stimulus from China. Bankers were no longer paid to hoard and began to lend. Capital began to trickle – when the banking system appeared solid. A readjustment period ensued. Why did the…
Cultural Chasm in the Understanding China Series Western commentators and analysts find China troublesome to fathom. This is due to the ‘free market’ prism through which they look at the share market. It is a fundamentally flawed starting position when trying to understand China! Cultural Chasm There is a Cultural Chasm which is impossible for…