A person who gives financial advice, notably personal finance advice. Some of them are questinable guru-like beings, and many are on YouTube.
The financial industry does not serve society nowhere near its magnitude (London of course being the epitome of that). It serves only itself. It just grows without bound.
- www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/05/on-the-floor-laughing-traders-are-having-a-new-kind-of-fun/238570/ On the Floor Laughing: Traders Are Having a New Kind of Fun (2011) by James Somers describes trading as a kind of game.
Why I chose quant trading to retire early by Lit Nomad
. Source. Ciro Santilli was not sure under which section classify this video. It is worthwhile despite the title- youtu.be/exPt6mVgpfY?t=123 describes how at Lockheed Martin they were playing the "we are doing it for national defense, not for money card" on employees. Ciro Santilli came to understand and despise similar hypocrisy via Ciro's everyone gets a raise story
Ciro Santilli once talked to a man who had been working on high-frequency trading for the last six years.
He was quite nice.
Ciro asked him in what way did he feel his job contributed to the benefit of society.
He replied that it didn't contribute at all. It was completely useless. More than that, it so completely useless, that it was even pure. A bit like advanced mathematics, but not even providing beauty for anybody outside of the company, since everything is a closely guarded trade secret, unlike mathematics which is normally published for the vanity recognition.
And so, Ciro was enlightened.
The Men Who Stole the World by Benoît Bringer
. This timestamp contains a good explanation of how banks were knowingly reselling bad loans at incredible profits. It features Richard Bowen, previously from Citi Group compliance.Senior partners emergency meeting scene from Margin Call
. Source. God, Jeremy Irons is destroying it!!! And all others too.To Ciro Santilli, a key observation is:Clearly the rich will be much, much more shielded by keeping large parts of their wealth in shares... from this point of view, it is insane to print money!!! Tax the rich instead...
The rich are more easily able to avoid the harm than poor and middle-class people [...] they are more likely to have large amounts of non-cash assets to shield themselves from inflation.
Pinned article: Introduction to the OurBigBook Project
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Intro to OurBigBook
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