The reason many of our leaders hate people like Nayib Bukele in El Salvador is because he has quickly proven that crime and societal decline are not inevitable or beyond control…
It’s a deliberate choice allowed by weak leaders, terrible policies and suicidal empathy.
@landofthe80s@tschakawaka One of the rare albums where every single song is good. Bad by Michael Jackson is the only other one that comes to my mind...
Für alle Divi-Freunde mal wieder ein Update von meinem Income Portfolio (31.12.2025)
Performance lag in 25 bei 4%. Hab die ETFs mit Ausnahme des Fidelity durch Einzeltitel ersetzt. Den letzten ETF werde ich bei entspr. Depotgröße wohl auch noch ersetzen :)
Viel Erfolg in 26! 🤞🏻
Der Absturz im Cryptomarkt hat in Q4 aufgrund der hohen MSTR Position ordentlich gescheppert, hab zumindest noch rechtzeitig Gewinne mitgenommen wenngleich nicht die gesamte Position. Momentan hohe Cashquote, sehe mich gerade um 🙃
HEAT was released 30 years ago today. Acclaimed as one of the great crime thrillers of the 1990s, and the film that brought Al Pacino and Robert De Niro on screen together, the making of story will walk out on you in 30 seconds flat…
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Europe is turning (already turned?) Japanese, as the famous song goes.
Its share of global GDP was a formidable force in the early 1990s (during a period when Japanese economy went into stagnation). It stood near 30%, but today the level is closer to 17%.
If the trend persists, European economy might be less relevant than Africa or Latin America soon.
But what’s the root cause of this persistent economic slowdown? There are many, and I don’t claim to have the intelligence to pinpoint them all. But one stands out like a sore thumb.
The chart clearly shows that for Europe, there has been no relative recovery since the GFC.
At least some of the blame must be placed on the EU itself, which has:
• over-regulated
• driven business investment away from the continent
• destroyed its source of cheap energy relationship
• outcompeted by rising economies in key manufacturing area it once dominated (regulation stifles innovation),
• allowed the endless social welfare system
• lacked to generate productivity improvements
• allowed debt levels to increase to nosebleed levels
Perhaps the situation is too hard to fix, or maybe what is needed is a drastic 180 degree turn in policies. What Europe needs the EU parliament and its bureaucracy does not offer. You cannot expect the same people who caused the mess to be able to fix it.
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." — Albert Einstein