Juggling Dynamite

Countries having their own free floating currencies has always been a critical part of restoring competitiveness, and re-balancing capital flows and economies in the world. But bankers and multi-national corporations that focus on incessantly increasing their scale, prefer more integration, less regulation and less geographical, cultural division. The trouble is that the ‘integration’ model has run to extremes and created a debt-laden, inefficient global mess that is holding back creative destruction, rebirth and the ebb and flow of free markets.  Will Brexit destroy England? Of course not.  Will it set off a chain reaction that may see other countries break out of the EU and common currency strangle hold on their economy? Of course.  And that would be progress at last.

Bob Janjuah, senior independent client advisor at Nomura, discusses his thoughts on investing amid geopolitical risks and volatile markets. Here is a direct video link.

Donald Trump has spent the entire 2016 presidential campaign letting voters know how successful he has been as a real estate developer, casino mogul, and dealmaker. But Bloomberg View’s Tim O’Brien reveals that Trump’s business career has been anything but stellar. O’Brien knows a thing or two about Trump. He was sued by the presumptive Republican nominee a decade ago for a biography he wrote “Trump Nation: The Art of Being the Donald”.  Here is a direct video link.

The innovations in energy storage are coming so fast and furious it is hard to keep ‘current’ (little humor).  Science-fantasy concepts are becoming reality every week in things like graphene batteries (graphene is an eco-friendly, sustainable, sheet of carbon atoms in a honeycomb lattice pattern with astonishing attributes, pictured below) and Supercapacitors, also known as EDLC (electric double-layer capacitor) or Ultra-capacitors that can store previously unimaginable amounts of energy.  The race is on hyperdrive.  Very exciting.  See,  Australia co LWP takes 50% stake in graphene battery technology:

“When compared to a Tesla 85-kWh lithium-ion battery for electric vehicles, the aluminum-graphene-oxygen battery offer 15% more power, while occupying 54% less space and being 30% lighter. Its life is nearly twice as long and the estimated cost is about 50% below that of li-ion batteries, says LWP’s press release.”

Link all these on-site storage tools into inter-continental grids that continually absorb and disperse all forms of sustainable, clean energy far and wide, and the question becomes, ‘what energy problem?’