Your Thoughts on 2012

So 2012 is essentially over and it's been an interesting year by all accounts. I think it's been a fairly bad year, both geopolitically and in terms of finance (although for myself it's been quite good!). Some of my key moments of 2012:

  • LIBOR - Global hatred of bankers reached new highs this year with various scandals including money laundering, derivative mis-selling and of course, LIBOR manipulation

  • Heightened tensions in the Middle East - Iran, Israel, Palestine, Syria, all of these have been involved in conflicts of some sort and it seems like this will only escalate further in 2013

  • Chinese power change - Although there was a US election, whoever won the policies were going to be broadly the same. The world's second superpower China also had it's first change in leadership for a decade. Currently they seem to be planning the same kind of policies but who knows what direction China will take over the next year

So monkeys, what are your thoughts on 2012?

 

I tend to look towards the future. Until I can finish up my degree and buy a couple more investment properties I'll stay this way.

To answer your question though, I feel like I'm getting more stupider. The direction of America as a large group of fat, lazy, consumer credit stretching retards coupled with my four alarmingly unfulfilling years in the military is to blame. I can't wait to be a young urban professional and surround myself with people who are smarter than me.

When a plumber from Hoboken tells you he has a good feeling about a reverse iron condor spread on the Japanese Yen, you really have no choice. If you don’t do it to him, somebody else surely will. -Eddie B.
 
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Pandit's forced resignation, raising questions of moral dilemma. Knight Capital losing an absurd amount of money in a few hours, prompting HFT debates. Gupta being sentenced to jail with his pal Raj. Meaningless Dodd Frank hearings back in the Spring, and Jamie Dimon making a mockery of Senate hearings intended to crucify him. Facebook teaming up with Morgan Stanley for a lesson on how not to handle IPOs.

Foremost, the founding of hedge fund juggernaut Lumina Investments. It's been a big year.

 

i stopped keeping up with the market, but isn't the S&P up like 11% YTD?? my company's stock is almost back to pre-recession prices. unemployment numbers may be crappy, but i think the blue collar folk are bearing the brunt of it... i've get hit up by recruiters several times a month.

so in the tiny bubble of things that are important to me, 2012 was a good year. i think we'll see more of this going forward... knowledge workers and the wealthy will be doing ok, while the outlook for the working class continues to be bleak.

Money Never Sleeps? More like Money Never SUCKS amirite?!?!?!?
 

I somehow missed the whole Lumina Investments thing. I'd heard of it in passing, but this is honestly mind blowing.

In my view, this is more ridiculous than Aleksey Veyner. Just...wow. It's like, four kids thought it'd be cool to have titles like "Managing Partner" and took it a little too far. It's like they're sitting there in this interview speaking how they're supposed to speak. So cringeworthy I can't even handle it.

 
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t's like they're sitting there in this interview speaking how they're supposed to speak. So cringeworthy I can't even handle it.

In all honesty I can't make it through the full interview dude. Just makes me feel awkward to the core

word. too many dumbasses come out of college thinking they're special nowadays, so this is all too common.

Money Never Sleeps? More like Money Never SUCKS amirite?!?!?!?
 

In equities: HLF, GRPN, AVP, HPQ and FB. All amazing stories, each deserving a book of their own. In bonds: more of the same, G3 ZIRP, maybe the highlight was the AMAZING rally in LatAm long-dated bonds, especially inflation linked Colombia, Mexico and Brazil. The world has changed. In commodities, shale gas / oil, for sure, and the revival of a few mining guys here and there. In currencies, MXN vs BRL is a great story, a case study of how the market reacts to poor policymaking, despite relatively similar fundamentals. JPY may bring news for 2013.

Happy holidays!

 

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