Why this book and why now . Guest i started this but i guess it was 2017 and i had just taken a job as columnist for the Financial Times where my mandate was to figure out the biggest business and economic stories and cover theinthe cover than am which is another mandate. I saw amazing numbers in terms of transitions in the financial sector. The figure looking at how 80 of corporate wealth was being held at 10 and those are the firms that were the richest in personal data and intellectual property. The biggest of those firms facebook, apple, amazon a little bit. Big and Digital Advertising they have mostly shunned advertising with the devices and technology. You mentioned it isnt an ad driven company but on a whole different basis besides the fact we think of them as being tech do they have one thing in common . Guest it is an interesting point you make because right now they are trying to separate each other as regulators what they do have in common is the Network Effect that i talked
Which followed only 10 years after this you can trade an option that has no Intrinsic Value at all it just has implied value based on. Time to time value plus. The volatility or beta so if you have been on a stock and the option is the buy the stock in the 6 months in the future and the underlying stock goes up and down a lot then you have an implied value for that option and so its a way to price risk but the way to price risk is the need to know time time best have value time has to use the and align prevailing Interest Rate to establish a baseline of the value of time from now on the curve from short to long so if youre negative as weve said before you have. No value of time as a matter of fact time as a negative value i have often quipped that negative Interest Rates are a way for Goldman Sachs to go backwards in time and steal from clients in the past you know having looted all their current clients and future clients they need to go backwards in time so negative Interest Rates gi
Been on a stock and the option is the buy the stock in the 6 months in the future and the underlying stock goes up and down a lot then you have an implied value for that option and so its a way to price risk but the way to price risk is the need to know time time best have value time has to use the and align prevailing Interest Rate to establish a baseline of the value of time from now on the curve from short to long so if youre negative as weve said before you have no value of time as a matter of fact time as a negative value i have often quipped that negative Interest Rates are a way for Goldman Sachs to go backwards in time and steal from clients in the past you know having looted all their current clients and future clients they need to go backwards in time so negative into. Give the opportunity to commit crimes in the previous decades but put in the time machine aside. The negative rates to make the entire proposition financialization moot because without a baseline to value risk
A way to price risk but the way to price risk is the need to know time time best have value time has to use the underlying prevailing Interest Rate to establish a baseline of the value of time from now on the curve from short to long so if youre negative as weve said before you have no value of time as a matter of fact time as a negative value i have often quipped that negative Interest Rates are a way for Goldman Sachs to go backwards in time and steal from clients in the past you know having looted all their current clients and future clients they need to go backwards in time so negative Interest Rates give the opportunity to commit crimes in the previous decades but put in the time machine aside. The negative rates make the entire proposition financialization moot because without a baseline to value risk and to value time you have no basis to value this financial eyes post industrial economy whatsoever its all basically a guessing game which weve said for many years that all the val
Been on a stock and the option is the buy the stock in the 6 months in the future and the underlying stock goes up and down a lot then you have an implied value for that option right and so its a way to price risk but the way to price risk is the need to know time time best have value time has to use the and align prevailing Interest Rate to establish a baseline of the value of time from now on the curve from short to long so if youre negative as weve said before you have no value of time as a matter of fact time as a negative value i have often quipped that negative Interest Rates are a way for Goldman Sachs to go backwards in time and steal from clients in the past you know having looted all their current clients and future clients they need to go backwards in time so negative Interest Rates give the opportunity to commit crimes in the previous decades but putting that time machine aside. The negative rates make the entire proposition financialization moot because without a baseline