Sony Kumar's BLOG

  • The Influence of Culture on Investment Behaviour

    Culture plays a very important role in an economy, and there is a reason for it. Humans beings are designed to be cultural. Since the evolution of human modern human society, culture has continued  to be a strong part of average people’s lives. Culture tends to influence people views, values, money, aspirations, hopes, their priorities…

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  • Collective Behaviour: The Linchpin keeping the Human Society and the Market Economy Functioning

    A society along with the financial markets generally operates under a Collective behaviour model. And without a defined central command or control, it’s probably one of the best way to regulate activity and growth. In case you are wondering, examples of such systems are abundant in nature. For example, various species of ants that live…

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  • The Fear of recession: Are the Gods coming to the rescue again ?

    The markets are abuzz about the possibility of a global recession. And based on the economic indicators especially the tools used by the market participants to gauge or predict a possible recession, you could see a strong case there. Having said that, if you are student of recession and also life in general then, your…

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  • Capitalism Vs Socialism – Looking for a new normal

      The title is probably causing a bit of confusion, isn’t it ? However, my intention is not to cause any confusion, but to ask myself and hopefully others a simple, but an honest  question. And that is, when it comes to capitalism vs socialism debate, are we really taking sides based on  our bias…

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  • A Discussion on the concept of value

    Before I get started, I feel, it’s probably a good idea to set the backdrop of the story as a context to just why did I decide to write about the concept of value. So here it is.  I got on a scheduled conference call with two potential investors who were kind enough to show…

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  • The Global Order and the scared values

    Well! to start with, I would say, there are obviously no prizes to be won by anyone, if they were to guess correctly that, whatever we have come to know as global order is now going through, what can only be described as disruption. And this disruption is creating a lot of chaos as evident…

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  • How to sell a narrative to a society

    The question we are all busy asking ourselves is, why is our society struggling ? And the answer isn’t really that difficult. Everything is eventually designed to fail, and so will the narratives that we have sold ourselves. What got us to where we are today isn’t going to take us, where we want to…

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  • The EU project and Brexit – Finding a way to navigate my own conflicts

    So we are approaching the end of April 2019, and from what I can see, there seems to be no end to the Brexit Saga. But is this really a surprise ? Probably not, and there are a number of underlying reasons for that. To start with, we still don’t have a clear common vision…

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  • A Trump is not the cause, but a symptom of what’s gone badly wrong

    So while walking about in Hyde Park – London on a bank holiday weekend, I got a call from a friend, who happens to be a politician based in DC. We had, what I would describe as an interesting chat, and most of it was related to US and global politics. I am no expert…

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  • Fundamentals: Understanding Humans and the Markets

    Principles on which something is based are known to us as the concept of fundamentals. And the idea that, the core principles don’t change much, and therefore fundamentals are somehow God given, isn’t really a true assumption at all. Whether it’s our society or the financial markets. The core principles do change overtime, and the…

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