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25 Shocking Facts About The Water Resources ,Read Point Number 11 & Think About it

  
Analysis, Education
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War, famine, mass extinctions and devastating plagues – all of these are coming unless some kind of miraculous solution is found to the world’s rapidly growing water crisis.  By the year 2030, the global demand for water will exceed the global supply of water by an astounding 40 percent according to one very disturbing U.S. government report.  As you read this article, lakes, rivers, streams and aquifers are steadily drying up all over the planet.  The lack of global water could potentially be enough to bring about a worldwide economic collapse all by itself if nothing is done because no society can function without water.  Just try to live a single day without using any water some time.  You will quickly realize how difficult it is.  Fresh water is the single most important natural resource on the planet, and we are very rapidly running out of it.  The following are 25 shocking facts about the Earth’s dwindling water resources that everyone should know…

#1 Right now, 1.6 billion people live in areas of the world that are facing “absolute water scarcity“.

#2 Global water use has quadrupled over the past 100 years and continues to rise rapidly.

#3 One recent study found that a third of all global corn crops are facing “water stress“.

#4 A child dies from a water-related disease every 15 seconds.

#5 By 2025, two-thirds of the population of Earth will “be living under water stressed conditions“.

#6 Due to a lack of water, Chinese food imports now require more land than the entire state of California. (more…)

Number 26- Dangerous Number ?

  
Education, Life
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Is it a Coincidence???



China Earthquake
26th July 1976

Gujrat Earthquake
26 January 2001.

Tsunami in Indian Ocean
26th Dec 2004

Mumbai attack 26/11
26th November 2008

Taiwan earthquake
26th July 2010

Japan Earthquake
26th February 2010

Now Nepal earthquake
26th April 2015.

Why is it Always “26” ?
Is it a mere Coincidence or A Timely Reminder From God..Need to Think on it Seriously!!!

The Rhodes earthquake 26 June 1926

North America earthquake 26 Jan 1700

Yugoslavia earthquake 26 July 1963

Merapi volcanic eruption 26 Oct 2010

Bam , Iran earthquake 26 
Dec 2003 ( 60,000 dead )

Sabah Tidal waves 26 Dec 
1996 ( 1,000 dead )

Turkey earthquke 26 Dec 
1939 ( 41,000 dead )

Kansu , China earthquake 26 Dec 1932 ( 70,000 dead )

Portugal earthquake 26 Jan 1951 ( 30,000 dead )

Krakatau volcanic eruption 26 Aug 1883 ( 36,000 dead )

Aceh Tsunami 26 Dec 2004


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Visualizing The World's Greatest Fears

  
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What are the greatest fears by country? Throughout the world, people are concerned about very different things – from inequality to AIDS and from nuclear war to religious hatred…

By region, North Americans and Europeans are generally most fearful of inequality. However, each other region had their own number one perceived fear. Africans, not surprisingly, were most afraid of AIDS and other diseases. South Americans were most afraid of nuclear warfare and Asians were most afraid of pollution and environmental concerns. Lastly, people in the Middle East were most concerned about religious and ethnic hatred.

Culture and history also makes the fears of specific countries to be more heightened. More than half of Lebanese people (58%) fear religious and ethnic hatred the most. 49% of Japanese people most fear nuclear weapons. In Spain, where 51.4% of youth are unemployed, it is not surprising that 54% of Spanish people fear inequality the most. Spain is also where the fear of inequality has grown the fastest – it has increased 27% in the last seven years.  (more…)

Kyle Bass on Japanese equities, yen correlation

  
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5 brilliant insights from Kyle Bass

1.) “There’s no true science to it, it’s an Art”

2.) He has an incredibly high level of conviction with his trades

3.) He’s a master of structuring his trades

4.) “The past doesn’t necessarily tell you how the future will play out”

5.) His Fund’s strategy is a hybrid between Global Macro and Event Driven

More, and video interview, at the link

 

Richard Feynman on “Price” Importance

  
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Trend followers trade the “price”. It’s the number that can’t be faked, the real indicator of the past, now and the future. Richard P. Feynman adds:

“You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world [think of all those so-called market fundamentals], but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird…So let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing — that’s what counts.”

What is the market doing right now? That’s what counts. The price.

The price

What We Can Learn From Bamboo

  
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A problem many market participants encounter is that they hold rigid views and systems which, just like the strongest steel and concrete, are destroyed under the right conditions.

It is nature that produces the strongest products of all, and we can learn from nature how to handle our trading. Take bamboo, for example: “the plants endure cold winters and extremely hot summers and are sometimes the only trees left standing in the aftermath of a typhoon. They may not reach the heights of the other trees, but they are strong and stand tall in extreme weather.”

This article “10 Simple Life Lessons from Bamboo” provides many lessons for us all.

Here are a few amazing things I have learned about bamboo over the years:

1. The young can grow very fast – 3 feet in a day.

2. Thickness of the young and the mature is about the same.

3. Most grow on barren land.

4. A whole forest of bamboos can come from a single root.

5. They blossom once about 60 years, after which they all die and allow new seeds to grow. (more…)

Speculators, Skeptics & Suckers

  
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  • Speculators jump into stocks in the late stages of a Bear market and into the early stages of the Bull market; they are the gamblers; and they are willing to accept higher relative risk to capture the largest price movements that occur later, when the Skeptics and Suckers are buying in larger numbers.
  • Skeptics wait for the Speculators to make the first move and to see real evidence of economic recovery before buying into a Bull market. Skeptics don’t jump in; they move in increments; and they usually miss the biggest price movements, both up and down. Put simply, Skeptics make their money when neither fear nor greed are at peak levels.  There is also a sub-category of Skeptic, which are the Contrarians, who are skeptical to the degree that the most prudent position is the opposite of the herd.
  • Suckers will buy or sell at any point during a market cycle but tend to buy more at higher price levels and sell more at lower price levels; therefore, as a whole, Suckers are the last to join a Bull market and the last to abandon it.

These are generalizations and most investors will exhibit characteristics of all three types at various points of a market cycle.  For example, at the market cycle extremes–the highest and lowest points–many Speculators and Skeptics become Suckers.  Also, there are hybrid forms (e.g. Speculative Suckers, Skeptical Speculators, Perma-Suckers, and so on).

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