Here are the financial markets that are tradable by the individual (with the inclusion of corporate and agency bonds for the sake of completing the Bonds group). Interbank lending is obviously excluded, as are products such as Swaps, MFs and Term Deposits that are generally purchased in person rather than via an electronic exchange:
Bonds: Government; Corporate; Agency (mortgage-backed)
Stocks: Pink Sheets; OTC; Penny Stocks; Investment Grade
Commodities / Futures / Derivatives; Forex; Options
Exchange Traded Funds & Single Stock Futures
WORLD = People
PEOPLE = Pickpockets (Producers) and their Clients (Consumers)
The Pickpockets:
- Business (esp. cartels and providers of essential & gov’t-mandated services, ie. insurance)
- NGOs (esp. charities most of the donations to which fund their sunshine lists)
- Government (becoming monster, self-financing profit-making charities with large sunshine lists)
Q: How do the Producers get more out of your pocket (Economics 101) to satisfy stakeholders?
A: RATIONING of Human & Physical Capital
Growth via PRODUCTIVITY Gains: Babies/Immigration; Technology; Freebies (ie. Cyber-thievery)
Q: Where do the Pickpockets get the Funds for their (Mis-Ad)Ventures?
A: OPIUM. A good example of OPIUM is putting up a condo tower AFTER selling the suites
The Clients:
- Shoppers (esp. the poor and middle class who are addicted to credit bc cocaine is expensive)
- Taxpayers (Oh, the poor taxpayer! S/He has been led to believe that happiness comes from giving.)
| FINANCIAL MARKETS = Money Markets and Capital Markets |
| Capital Markets: Long-term Money Retail Clients: Corporations, NGOs, General Public Purpose: Hedging, investing and speculating |
| STOCKS OPTIONS on STOCKS |
| COMMODITIES – FUTURES – DERIVATIVES* FOREX OPTIONS on FUTURES SINGLE STOCK FUTURES |
| BONDS EXCHANGE TRADED FUNDS |
| Money Manager: MUTUAL FUNDS Bank: GICs & TERM DEPOSITS |
| OTHER MARKETS |
| REAL ESTATE COLLECTIBLES (Art / Autos / Antiques) VENTURE CAPITAL |
* Derivatives = hard and soft commodities; index and financial futures and options