Em5k 

Telco guy, problem-solver. Somewhat good at buying investments, but knucklehead in selling (So I stopped selling).
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Transparency -> Accountability -> Performance
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Checking in on the retirement crisis
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As a private investor that is exactly what you should do. And a long time ago I have written about personal inflation and how it is different from official inflation. But financial markets don’t care about your personal inflation. They care about the official number, justified or not.

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The truthiness of ESG criticism: Part 2
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Lots to unpack here and more than I can tackle. But two things: I have written about the tipping point for the adoption of renewable energy in my book on geopolitics. In short, wind and solar are already the cheapest power sources in most countries (including the US) even without subsidies. There is a reason why Exxon uses wind energy from the West Texas plains to power it’s fracking pumps. More here: https://www.cfainstitute.org/en/research/foundation/2021/geo-economics-ch-8 Second, your “Ponz…

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Yes, more should be said about that and companies with a more evenly skilled workforce should be praised more. But we live in a world of superstar athletes and superstar business men. there is the legend that a genius entrepreneur can revolutionize the world. That makes for a nice story but is not true in practice. On the other hand, a good manager working in the background isn't sexy for the media and doesn't create enough clicks. so they are not talked about. Just think of the thousands of Ge…

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I think I once saw a study that stated that the impact of diversity is positive across different sectors and industries but I can’t find that study. As for ethnic diversity and other forms of diversity the problem is that unlike gender data there often just isn’t any data readily available. I have last week written about linguistic diversity and before that about educational diversity and both studies indicate diversity benefits across those dime nations as well. But so far, we just haven’t got…

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You missed one key fact: The Inquisition led to the expulsion of the Jews from the Iberian peninsula. That ultimately led to the rise of communities in Amsterdam, Livorno, Venice and elsewhere, which helped those economies flourish while Spain and Portugal withered.