Mad About
Money
SAY THE MAGIC
WORDS AND
ENCORE!
The four magic words
for the fourth disruption:
Press the Right Buttons.
Technology has
transformed the way
financial markets are
organized. FinTech is
the elusive golden hen.
There are no limits to the
growth of FinTech. With
the right software, the right
approach and portfolio,
and the right risk appetite,
you can earn as much as
you want.
Money is evolving with
time. Trading went digital
in the nineties. Now,
currency has gone digital,
transformed by the
revolutionary blockchain
technology. Bitcoin is one
such market disruption.
It would be smart to
use this commonplace
knowledge to advance
your mon etary interests in
the currency market. And
this is just the first stroke of
the multiple opportunities
that lay before you in the
leisure time that the fourth
industrial revolution brings
with it!
KEEP DREAMING
LIKE LALAJI
BECAUSE THIS
PARTICULAR
LALAJI IS HAVING
THE TIME OF HIS
LIFE!
THE SEDUCTIVE
APPEAL OF
FINANCIAL
MARKETS
Researchers at IBM and
Google have proclaimed
that the entry of quantum
computers in commercial
applications is not far.
The appeal of quantum
mechanics laid in its
weirdness. Simplistically
speaking, a change in
one particle could cause
a change in another
particle across space. This
is exactly how financial
markets work.
Federal Reserve is due
to announce a possible
hike in interest rates this
month. This means a
capital flight from India to
United States because the
dollar is a safer currency
for investment purposes.
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi’s party wins the UP
elections and the stock
market jumps in joy (pun
intended). Or on a grimmer
note, Lehman Brothers
goes bankrupt and stock
markets across the world
collapse (a financial
tragedy).
Financial markets are
where sociological,
political, regulatory,
and economic agendas
intersect. And hence, a
popular photograph that
circulates around when a
tragic incident occurs is
of people staring at the
building of the Bombay
Stock Exchange in
Mumbai. So when your
regulatory authority
decides to decrease
the amount of cash a
Non-banking financial
corporation can dispense
for gold, it is time to sell
your stocks!
With all its complexities, a
passion for wealth cannot
exist without a passion for
financial markets.
AS LAZY AS YOU
CAN GET, LALAJI
There is an old man of
forty. He lives with his
parents in a rented three-
room apartment in a well-
connected part of New
Delhi. He is unmarried, by
choice. He is a freelance
software developer who
invests in Bitcoins (1 Bitcoin
= 82089.92 Indian Rupee),
sold his shares in a famous
NBFC today, has a general
store and a shoe shop
where he intends to install
the software the popular
‘Amazon-go’ supermarket
uses, has bought a
three-storey building in
the north campus that
he rents out to students
and has invested in
Exchange traded funds
of the recently floated
public sector insurance
companies.
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