China Stops Buying Gold
China started buying gold in Q4 2022, and had been steadily buying all the way till April 2024. Although China has been buying for so long, it was only in early 2024 that the masses took note of it. Gold…
Category Financial Literacy
China Capital Markets Shake-Up
China has recently come up with a series of guidelines and enforcements to regulate their capital markets, and by extension to inject confidence among investors, ultimately reviving their now near-dead capital markets, especially their stock markets. On 12 April 2024,…
Of Million-Dollar HDB And Mass Development Condominiums
The first million-dollar HDB was transacted in July 2012 and made the news. Since then, the volume of million-dollar HDB transactions has increased over the years, especially during the Covid and ‘post-Covid’ period where mass inflation has made everything much…
Cash May Still Be The King
The modern paper money we often refer to as cash has come a long way in terms of trading. From the original barter trade to seashells, mankind later introduced copper coins, silver ingots and gold bars. Paper money and later…
I Sold Spot Gold
Yesterday I went to one of the gold retailers in Singapore and sold off nearly all my physical gold – 14 x 1 oz gold coins + 8 x 1/2 oz gold coins, a total of 18 oz. I had…
Stocks As An Alternative To Properties
Property investment is one of the default investment types people go for. I have talked about this topic from rental to capital appreciation, from the various types of properties to the factors which you should consider when buying one, so…
The Business Of Debt
This is a very short tale of the business of debt. Tom wants to marry Toodles and set up a family with her. To do that he needs to buy a house, for that is the Asian culture. Both of…
The Business Opportunities In A Recession
West Europe has long been a champion of green energy. In fact, they pride themselves on using a variety of clean energy in a polluted world. However, due to the Russian-Ukraine war and Germany’s political stand, Germany now has no…
Consumerism
Consumerism basically is a phenomenon of individuals spending and acquiring things way beyond their basic needs. This spending and acquisition of goods or services will elevate an individual’s well-being or happiness. For example, the never-ending shopping and buying of clothes…
Red Alert – Part II
In Part I we used the classic game Red Alert to reference our battle to reach financial freedom. Today we will continue using Red Alert as an analogy to go deeper into detail the things we could do. Analogies are…
Red Alert – Part I
In any war games, be it Starcraft or Red Alert or even Civilization, the general strategy for a win is to gather as much resources as we can in the shortest possible time, produce enough war machines and attack before…
The Shield And The Weapon Called Freedom
In 1900, the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China and plundered it. Prior to that in 1884, the corrupted Qing Dynasty which ruled China at that time and led by Empress Dowager Cixi, spent a huge sum of money on reconstructing and…