January 29, 2025 - February 16, 2026: The Chinese Year of the Snake 

    Imagine the Unimaginables -

                                                           - Food for Thought!

Depending on who you ask, the Year of the Snake in 2025 can be full of quite a few positive possibilities and this could be especially welcoming after a very uncertain and exhausting 2024. It is said the snake brings wisdom, transformation, a kind of calm observance inspiring creativity. Seems like a lot of wishful thinking as the Year of the Snake starting January 29, 2025 has been quite a turbulent one.

One of my favorite exercises is to conjure up Food for Thought and Imagining the Unimaginable. In the world of finance and investing, this is trying to imagine what is not yet priced in the markets, expecting the unexpected. On Monday, January 27, stock markets got caught out by an announcement from a Chinese “start up” Artificial Intelligence (AI) company called DeepSeek who announced an open-sourced l...

 Like a Rolling Stone

Women Disrupt and Create

Feminine Freedom!

Go Ladies - Go for Change!

Happy International Women’s Day - 8 March 2023!

 Is it time to renew and revitalize the Women's Liberation Movement started in the 60s?

Going Full Circle!

I listen to a number of Podcasts regarding Finance&Economics, Music and News and came across one about developments in Popular Music production with a bit of history and analysis from "Plain English”* (links  at the end). Another Podcast, “Today Explained” featured the story, “The Rockstar Maesto”** of Gustavo Dudamel who has brought classical music to the masses in Los Angeles. Now he’s announced that he’s taking his talents to New York, which could revive classical music on one of its biggest stages. They reminded me of some work I did in 2018 trying to construct a Music Indicator which would try to analyze if popular music reflected not only cultural trends, but also economic ones. And if so, would those trends influence sentiment...