This is an article/chart from CBSMarketwatch, it is very interesting and totally terrifying. Derivatives are not wealth, they are the potential destroyers of all wealth.
The problem is that we do not even understand how these vehicles really work, you don’t get to just say BECAUSE. If you have not seen the movie ‘The Big Short’, you should. It does a good job breaking down these concepts into easy to understand chunks.
Look, I get it, you can’t just invest in bullets and hybrid seeds.
I use the markets and leveraged risk to play the money game too, but you better bet I also have a reserve of hard currency (precious metals) and assets I can eat.
FENRIR IS OLD NORSE FOR DERIVATIVES
(awesome photo by Rasmus Berggreen)
I can’t help thinking of that quote from Einstein;
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
It feels to me like derivatives are the nuclear weapons here. I feel like if this House of Cards ever comes tumbling down, they next economy will be back to shells and fur pelts.
Othala Fehu 