Normally I like to take it easy Friday nights, order in some Pizza, and reflect on the weeks stock market moves, and try and make some sense out of it.
Often assisted by a couple of scotches, which at the time seems to provide clarity, if only fleetingly.
However last night my beautiful bride decided that we needed some light entertainment, and as her work provides movie tickets as a reward for long term loyalty with no sick leave, she decided to take advantage and shout me a treat.
So I found myself at the movies watching Mrs Browns Boys Da movie.
So with the an open mind, and thinking surely it cant be too bad, I will just go soak up the atmosphere and enjoy it.
Ten minutes in, things are off to a slow start, surely just warming us up, that's what they do when they write a comedy isn't it?
But alas, the further the movie went, the more relieved I became that I hadn't actually paid for the tickets and started feeling sorry for my bride.
Her hard work and dedication to her employer , was going remarkably unrewarded.
The only redeeming part of the evening was the Great Indian restaurant on the way home.
But the movie did get me thinking.
The theme, "small business owner fights corruption and organised crime", with a Russian twist.
My mind was struggling with the irony of the movie and my current predicament.
By strange coincidence we will soon travelling to Russia, despite recent problems
my Bride and her Travel agent, who is travelling with us, assures me that, everything will be fine, so as we have paid, the consensus (excluding me) is that we should still go.
A couple of years ago I read Loretta Napoleoni's Rouge economics.
Amongst other things, Highlighting crime in the area we are contemplating travel to.
see link and brief review on Amazon .com
http://www.amazon.com/Rogue-Economics-Loretta-Napoleoni/dp/1583228241
What do Eastern Europe's booming sex trade, America's subprime mortgage lending scandal, China’s fake goods industry, and celebrity philanthropy in Africa have in common? With biopirates trolling the blood industry, fish-farming bandits ravaging the high seas, pornography developing virtually in Second Life, and games like World of Warcraft spawning online sweatshops, how are rogue industries transmuting into global empires? And will the entire system be transformed by the advent of sharia economics? With the precision of an economist and the narrative deftness of a storyteller, syndicated journalist Loretta Napoleoni examines how the world is being reshaped by dark economic forces, creating victims out of millions of ordinary people whose lives have become
Its a powerful book that highlights many of the issues the world is struggling with, not just Russia.
and to some extent she makes some excellent points on what she refers to as Capitalisms new reality, doing business globally.
But if you worried about it too much, you would stay home, do nothing, put your money under the bed, and forget about the stock market, (maybe this explains Australia's current preoccupation with residential real estate)
But I prefer to believe that most of humanity still works for the common good, and the internet has more potential to free the world than constrain it, so will probably be going.
And if it hadn't been for Utube we may not have discovered Brendan O'Carroll, Demonstrates capitalism still works, and we never want to take ourselves too seriously!!
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Code | Buy date | buy price | current | Sell Date | Sell price | Profit(loss) |
EPW | 21/05/2014 | $1.905 | $2.040 | 7.09% | ||
CRZ | 23/05/2014 | $10.530 | $11.200 | 6.36% | ||
CCL | 26/05/2014 | $9.690 | $9.250 | -4.54% | ||
SEA | 26/05/2014 | $1.035 | $1.320 | 27.54% | ||
WTF | 28/05/2014 | $2.420 | $3.300 | 11/07/2014 | $3.30 | 36.36% |
REA | 28/05/2014 | $44.190 | $48.030 | 8.69% | ||
SUL | 7/07/2014 | $9.160 | $9.320 | 1.75% | ||
TRS | 7/07/2014 | $9.660 | $9.660 | 0.00% | ||
CSL | 15/07/2014 | $68.550 | $66.800 | -2.55% | ||
CTD | 15/07/2014 | $6.550 | $6.430 | -1.83% | ||
FLT | 15/07/2014 | $45.840 | $46.800 | 2.09% | ||
Avg | 7.36% | |||||
Performance all ords over Period | ||||||
All ords | 21/05/2014 | 5403 | 5574 | 3.16% |
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