The Afterpay Ltd [ASX:APT] share price went as low as $73.68 today, before clawing back a large part of the losses. All of this happened on the back of PayPal announcing its own buy now, pay later (BNPL) service. We look at what competition means for Afterpay and its peers in the Aussie BNPL sector…
Dear Reader, The 80s were some interesting times for Argentina. The country was transitioning from a military government to democracy. And, among many of the legacies left over from the old regime, there was a lot of debt…and inflation. To start afresh, the new government replaced the currency, the Argentinean peso, with a brand-new one: […]
Increasingly gains on the S&P 500 [SPX] are concentrated in the hands of just a few companies. There’s a good reason for this — the pandemic is accelerating the push towards technology like never before. But there are two perspectives out there, which offer very different visions of what the market will do…
Dear Reader, The four most expensive words in history are said to be ‘it’s different this time’. Normally those words are used to justify some sort of insane price rise in an asset class. In other words, people trot out those four words when a bubble is forming, and the high prices have decoupled from […]
Dear Reader, The Federal Reserve Bank did the unthinkable back in April. It unleashed US$3 trillion onto the financial system in less than three months. However, as Jim points out today, think of that money as a mere bridging loan for the US. Unemployment data is expected to rise for the US as of September […]
Successful investors adapt quickly to change. And today’s piece is almost contrarian when it says mining and Chinese debt could underpin Australia’s economic recovery…
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