Saturday, today: debate training (morning), committee meeting for Global Health Debates finance (noon), TEDxUPM talk (afternoon), IDeA competition (evening), sleep (night).
Busy day, to end a spectacularly eventful week.
HBD Rafi
Saturday. Flamingoes Resort, somewhere north. Lots of unfortunately sick people, my cute goddaughter / niece, my lovely cousin who turned twelve. Food. Family. Lots of selfies.
Makati Madness
Took two train lines to Makati. Dealt with a lot of money (theoretically) in banks, learned things about the economy, ate tonteki. Finally, a parfait.
Things I learned, thanks to my mother’s personal relationship manager (while they were discussing investments):
- Stock owners in the energy business are selling their stocks / stocks depreciated this month / stock prices dropped …all thanks to the lowered gas prices
- But the gas prices will eventually go up soon
- Euro will drop down to almost the same value as USD by the end of the year, because they properly entered recession
- Measures they can take to inject more money into the zone and encourage tourism: loan money to banks at 0%
S&P 500Top companies, well performing, good stocks: Apple, Exxon, Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Berkshire…- Policies really affect the economy
- Don’t invest in a European-denominated fund right now, because we still don’t know if Europe is stable. Greece austerity measures? Elections in Portugal and Spain?
- Japan and Europe are in a recession. China is slowing down.
Friday blues
Perpetual hunger, a successful oral interpretation of Dance With My Father Again. I subsist on Skyflakes.
xxx
jari m 