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Beyond Finance Non-Linear Views on Financial Markets and the Economy

Quotes on the fly Quotes and Excerpts on Capital Markets and the Economy

The Coffee Chronicles Quotes from Everywhere and Nowhere, on Contradictions, Existence and Nothingness

The Chart Room As in “a picture is worth a thousand words”, “un bon croquis vaut mieux qu'un long discours”, "百闻不如一见"

Beyond Finance

InvestmentOffice, March 2023

Caspar Peucer

Heudrik Connix, Anvers, 1584

Maria Popova

The Marginalian, April 2022

Ronald G. Weber

Smashwords, July 2021

Quotes on the fly View more

''... the only thing the Fed hates more than inflation is a banking crisis.''

Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, As Winter Wanes, Prices Continue to Cool, Inflation is easing even more than headline data suggest.

Fisher Investments, March 14, 2023

“In economics, things take longer to happen than you think they will, and they happen faster than you thought they could.”

Rudiger Dornbusch (1942–2002)

German economist, who subsequently moved to the United States, where he obtained his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago

''Twitter is both a social media company and a crime scene''

Elon Musk

Twitter, 10 December 2022

''Clarity in the stock market is always expensive to buy!''

Ken Fisher, Founder and Executive Chairman of Fisher Investments

Fisher Investments, Ken Fisher Debunks: “Don’t Buy In Until There is Clarity That You’re in a Bull Market”, 9 December 2022

The Coffee Chronicles

Men Wanted for hazardous journey, small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful, honor and recognition in case of success.

Ad in the London newspaper The Times, from Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) to put together his Antarctic expedition (1914-1917).

The ad maybe a myth, but the adventure was real, and it exemplifies the spirit of inspiration and endurance.

“We're drinking history!”

Eddie Sahakian, enjoying a rare Richard Hennessy cognac with Kirby Allison

Kirby Allison: Inside London's Best Cigar Lounge, With Eddie Sahakian, 31 August 2022

“The Prussian Monarchy is not a country that has an army, but an army that has a country”

Quotation often attributed to Count Mirabeau

Late 18th Century

The Chart Room

Stock pickers’ paradise: market breadth is at a 20+ year high”.

The Bear Facts: Major U.S. Equity Sell‑Offs Since 1928

Powell’s White Whale

Performance of US equities in the 1970s

The Synchronicity Chamber

Liminal spaces are understood as physical locations that are transitional in nature, somewhere between origin and destination. Their aesthetics is associated with feelings of eeriness, apprehension, and nostalgia. Now, what would be its equivalent in financial markets?

Investment Office, January 2023

Quote

Elon Musk

Twitter, 10 December 2022

Excerpt

Steven Patrick Morrissey, also known as Morrissey, solo artist, and former frontman of The Smiths.

Morrissey Interview, The London Palladium, October 2022

Quote from "Guerre aux Chaires d’Économie Politique."

Frédéric Bastiat

Libre-Échange, 13 juin 1847

The Joseph Schumpeter Room

S&P 500 lifespans continue to shrink

Scott D. Anthony, S. Patrick Viguerie, Evan I. Schwartz, and John Van Landeghem

Innosight, 2018 Corporate Longevity Forecast: Creative Destruction is Accelerating, February 2018

A comprehensive analysis of European craft guilds through eight centuries of economic history

Sheilagh Ogilvie

Princeton University Press, February 12, 2019

Actual ticket price vs. 1971 ticket price adjusted for inflation

Giles Parkinson, Portfolio Manager

Aviva Investors, Pricing power is the magic ingredient for equity investors, 27 November 2020

Excerpt

Orson Welles

Orson Welles Talks About Making “Citizen Kane”, The Dick Cavett Show, May 14, 1970