Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Investment Post-Folio”
In Part 1 of this series we reviewed the demographic challenges confronting Japan. With a very rapidly aging population – a population that is also declining – Japan faces a crisis, as there will not be enough working age adults to support the 40% of the population that is projected to be over the age of 65 in the coming …
I was very excited to visit Japan. When we first started planning the trip, I initially tried to allocate about three weeks to the country before Lauren reminded me that we had a lot to see. Additionally, we had decided that we’d like to spend more time in emerging and frontier markets and any extra time in Japan would have …
Note: I was originally working on a quick post of what I thought was some random, cool, and interesting news from around the frontier and emerging market world – which I will hopefully do from time to time – and instead I started thinking more about one of the links I was going to share. Specifically, a link related to the recent …
Note: If you are not familiar with currency pairs and FX trading… click the little footnotes. Those are my nerdy additions and explanations to this article… —- Well, Lauren and I might have just gotten a “bon voyage” present from Japan. After bouncing around for about six months in a tight range, the USD.JPY currency pair looks to have broken out …
What an Argentinian Bed & Breakfast can teach you about macroeconomics. In 2011 Lauren and I visited Argentina on a 10-day vacation to foster bilateral diplomatic relationships in search of amazing steaks, Malbec, and waterfalls. We flew into Buenos Aires and spent a few days exploring that amazing city, which a hundred years ago was one of the wealthiest cities in the …
