Exchange Invest 2410 Weekend Edition: Sri Lankan Eco Meltdown?
From Drone squadrons to how green haste killed the Sri Lankan economy as Haitian civilisation struggles & more…
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From Exchange Invest 2407: 20th, July 2022: Wednesday
The UK Royal Air Force attracted some ridicule last week for having a drone squadron which actually has no drones.
Yet again the blob finds a topic where you couldn’t make it up and private sector fiction writers would be ridiculed if they attempted to. 216 squadron has 4 full time personnel and presumably a few aircraft kits they hold while making swooping moves through the air and going “dao dao dao dao dao dao” as is apparently the new decentralized pronunciation of the sound drone bombs make.
That said at least the UK’s absence of execution involves rather high tech failures as opposed to those crack German troops who turn up for NATO exercises armed with broomsticks in place of rifles. The Defence Minister during that farago is of course now President of the EU, Mrs Von Der Leyen.
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Tuesday, July 26th: 1800 UK, 1900 CET, 1300 EST
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Previously a supervisory board member since 2007, Peter Reitz has been CEO of EEX and ECC since August 1st 2011.
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Guest: James Fok
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“James Fok On Financial Cold War”
James Fok is a veteran financial and strategic advisor to corporations and governments who served as a senior executive at HKEX from 2012 until 2021, during a period of rapid internationalisation in China’s capital markets. While there, he played a major role in a number of landmark financial markets initiatives, including the launch of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect programme (2014), Bond Connect (2017) and the Hong Kong market’s Listing Reforms (2018). Prior to HKEX, Fok worked as an investment banker in both Europe and Asia, specialising in the financial services sector.
Fok is author of the book Financial Cold War and has written and spoken extensively about market structure issues and the intersection between geopolitics and international finance.
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Victory Or Death
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Podcasts This Week
Semiconductors: The Next Technological Arms Race
The Spectator
PLY: Very interesting “Chinese Whispers” podcast presented by Cindy Yu discussing China’s relative lack of semi conductor knowhow.
Episode 304: ICE’s Gordon Bennett & Brian Matt: Experts On The Leading Edge Of Sustainable Finance
Inside The ICE House
Macro Thoughts
The Spectator
Of Interest
As always, a review of interesting reading to provoke thoughts and consideration… Not sure we agree with much of it….but it’s thought-provoking!
Eco-Extremism Has Brought Sri Lanka To Its Knees
Daily Telegraph
PLY: A magnificent insight from the perma-thoughtful Lord Ridley, explaining how (as ignored by the MSM) the collapse of Sri Lanka’s economy is in many ways a salutary tale of the haste to green endorsement being a road to national penury.
Kidnappings Double As Haiti Descends Into Lawless Hell
The Telegraph
PLY: The Haitian meltdown is horrific and yet barely mentioned in mainstream media.
Thomas Peterffy: Inflation Will Last ‘For Years’ And Bitcoin May Become ‘Worthless’
Forbes
Once A Key Driver Of Global Venture Activity, Fintech Investment Slows Around The World
TechCrunch
The Next Decade For Health Tech May Look A Lot Like The Last Decade For Fintech
TechCrunch
Opinion | ESG Financiers Need To First Practise What They Preach On Climate Change
South China Morning Post
Reviled, Revered Russian Arms Dealer Back In Spotlight
The Sentinel-Record
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