As Christmas and the New Year approaches, pour yourself a glass of Bailey’s (or perhaps something more expensive if you’re one of this year’s crypto winners) and look back at some of the winners and losers of 2021.
The development of electric vehicles can almost be read as a case-study in the success of the Chinese economy since the late seventies: an example of the long-term economic planning, and shrewd government investment, that has allowed the private sector to flourish – albeit under the iron fist of the state.
Alec Baldwin, the famous actor, told Top Gear how “He’s [John DeLorean] like Musk and other people who want to form their own company, and do something bold.”
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Cathie Wood herself has become controversial for this reason, a ‘love her or hate her’ figure for many in the industry. But the huge returns generated by Ark’s ETFs – all five gained over 100% last year – mean that, either way, she is now impossible to ignore.
“Bitcoin is like the first plane built by the Wright Brothers. They built it using human intuition and imitation of birds, long before fluid dynamics were formulated. Bitcoin was built by Satoshi using intuition and heuristics, and he didn’t start with a theoretical framework as the foundation.”
For all its challenges, 2020 was a great year for Investment Banking. JP Morgan kept top spot, while Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse both continued to do exceptionally in equities markets, according to a report in the Financial Times last week.
Once easyJet’s fleet was off the ground again there was a moment of: “are easyJet shares ready for take off?”, often followed by a “forget easyJet’s share price, I’d buy these stocks instead”. And like easyJet, society has also stumbled from one lockdown to another in the COVID reality of 2020, never knowing if we can take that flight to Spain, or, not.
“Timelines is a new way for people to look at trading, I don’t think anybody systematically tried to go and contextualize publicly traded companies in such a way. The way we will be able to present the data will mean even novice traders will find it almost intuitive to invest.