Droplet Wealth

          The Markets continue to wobble. Option traders are still making money. Note we told money and not Wealth. As usual we continue to remain focussed and bring to you the final part of Man made mis-doings of Markets. The Internet Bubble – It happened in the year 2000 across the globe main culprit being the US. The dotcom bubble occurred in the late 1990s and was characterized by a rapid rise in equity markets fueled by investments in Internet-based companies. During the dotcom bubble, the value of equity markets grew exponentially, with the technology-dominated NASDAQ index rising from under 1,000 to more than 5,000 between 1995 and 2000. The 1990s was a period of rapid technological advancement in many areas, but it was the commercialization of the Internet that led to the greatest expansion of capital growth the country had ever seen. This sparked all the young budding entrepreneurs to start their own internet related services to profit from t...

     Markets have for now bounced off the lows it fell to last week.  Let's, just as in other things in life, keep focused on our objective that is to educate our readers about greed,  the gain it was supposed to bring and the eventual pain it has bought!  Greed. Gain. Pain  - Series II The UK Rail Mania –                                    It happened in the year 1850 at England. England’s economy was growing exponentially and it was backed by it’s new means of transportation – the railways. George Hudson, In mid-1830’s entered the railways business, aggressively expanding the operations and connecting various towns and cities. With growing economy, railways gained momentum and Hudson company had 30% market share in the rail lines and was generating positive cash from operations. This triggered many others to start their own railway companies as the proced...

We all live in a world of instant gratification. With the prevailing technological disruption, we were able to buy everything and anything in an instant click and it is delivered at our doorstep without any pain or work from our side. Similarly, we want everything to happen in minutes, hours or days including wealth creation. We are living the 2 minutes noodles life. However, we forget that Life is all about being patient and sailing through the vicissitudes that comes along the way. In today’s blog, let us see some of the economic bubbles and peoples greed to become rich overnight and how it put people off the course of wealth creation for the rest of their life. The Tulip Bubble – It happened in the year 1637 (1630-1637) at Holland. After gaining independence from Spain, Holland was economically growing well led by technological advancement. Then came the weapon of mass destruction, the Dutch were introduced to the Tulip flowers. When the economy flourish, there comes...