Three disruptive objectives shall be achieved by tokenizing of real -
world assets like that of real estate:
Not exact matches
It's why, for example, someone
like BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, as the head of the largest
asset manager in the
world, has felt compelled to take a stand against short - termism.
After all,
world - class cities
like New York, London, and Hong Kong will never go out of style, and their extremely robust and high - density city centers limit the supply of quality
assets to buy.
Bringing the security benefits of blockchain to real
world assets,
like real estate properties and small businesses, TrustToken is accelerating a future vision of the
world that is more fair and more secure.
Emerging blockchain startups,
like TrustToken, are extending these inherent features of blockchain to extend digital security to real
world assets.
The agency, created in 1946 to build houses for veterans of the Second
World War,
liked to describe itself as the «heart of housing» — an enormous Crown corporation that dominated the mortgage insurance market, guaranteed complex, bond -
like assets called mortgage - backed securities, and subsidized the building and upkeep of First Nations and social housing.
But that volatility, as Ghosh
likes to note, is the upside of the integrated nature of the company, which gives it a continued hedge against the differential in
world oil prices through its downstream and midstream
assets — on the midstream side, Husky operates a 2,000 - kilometre crude - oil pipeline system, and its downstream operations include upgrading and refining crude oil, and marketing gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, asphalt and ethanol in Canada and the United States.
The
world's largest money managers — companies
like Blackrock, Vanguard, or Fidelity — manage trillions of investor
assets in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs, and more.
Maybe our wise and patriotic politicians will start selling off our military
assets just
like they did with our manufacturing base so they can pay the tsunami of interest on our debt and China will take over as the
world's police?
Yet, despite the reality of PM Mining Stocks being the best performing
asset class by far in the stock
world this year, nearly every commercial bank and commercial brokerage fund manager completely avoids the
asset class of Precious Metal mining stocks
like it is kryptonite, and in fact, most of the time, refuses to even acknowledges the existence of this unique
asset class, despite a supposed commitment to diversification.
Danielle DiMartino Booth: I hate to inflammatory words
like abolishing, but you could certainly see a sequence of events whereby if the Bitcoin bubble ends up bleeding into other overvalued
asset classes that then bleed into an economic contraction leading to recession, and then causing the central banks of the
world, starting with the Fed, to go back to the zero - bounded interest rates.
Studies have to be carried concerning the economies, the social conditions of people, their human rights, working conditions, the flow of capital, the ownership of
assets in a country and
world, the availability and ownership of finance, the operation of agencies
like the WB, IMF and WTO.
Although it will be incredibly difficult to ever match his contributions on the pitch, it's vitally important for a former club legend,
like Henry, to publicly address his concerns regarding the direction of this club... regardless of those who still feel that Henry has some sort of agenda due to the backlash he received following earlier comments he made on air regarding Arsenal, he has an intimate understanding of the game, he knows the fans are being hosed and he feels some sense of obligation, both professionally and personally, to tell it
like he sees it... much
like I've continually expressed over the last couple months, this team isn't evolving under this current ownership / management team... instead we are currently experiencing a «stagnant» phase in our club's storied history... a fact that can't be hidden by simply changing the formation or bringing in one or two individuals... this team needs fundamental change in the way it conducts business both on and off the pitch or it will continue to slowly devolve into a second tier club... regardless of the euphoria surrounding our escape act on Friday evening, as it stands, this club is more likely to be fighting for a Europa League spot for the foreseeable future than a top 4 finish... we can't hope for the failures of others to secure our place in the top 4, we need to be the manufacturers of our own success by doing whatever is necessary to evolve as an organization... if Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke can't take the necessary steps following the debacle they manufactured last season, their removal is imperative for our future success... unfortunately, I strongly believe that either they don't know how to proceed in the present economic climate or they are unwilling to do whatever it takes to turn this ship around... just look at the current state of our squad, none of our
world class players are under contract beyond this season, we have a ridiculous wage bill considering the results, we can't sell our deadwood because we've mismanaged our personnel decisions and contractual obligations, we haven't properly cultivated our younger talent and we might have become one of the worst clubs ever when it comes to way we handle our transfer business, which under Dein was one of our greatest
assets... it's time to get things right!!!
«Long the home of the
world's major corporations
like IBM, PepsiCo, Regeneron and MasterCard, Westchester clearly has the
assets of vibrant downtowns, excellent real estate, mass transit, transportation mobility, technological infrastructure and most important the talent and intellectual capital to attract and retain the employees needed.
According to radio host and conspiracy monger Alex Jones, also appearing in the film, «The military - industrial complex killed John F. Kennedy» and «I can prove that there's a private banking cartel setting up a
world government because they admit they are» and «No matter how you look at 9/11 there was no Islamic terrorist connection — the hijackers were clearly U.S. government
assets who were set up as patsies
like Lee Harvey Oswald.»
After all, when used properly, the clothes you wear can be an
asset in projecting to the
world the way you'd
like to be viewed.
The people that are changing the
world and having fun while doing it are the ones that recognize what an incredible
asset the creative arts are to humanizing and disseminating science... If one day we figure out how to time - travel, the question will still remain: Who would you
like to visit and why?
My personal preferences would be for states to impose a new consumption tax on something that's bad for the
world,
like gambling or carbon emissions or sugar or cigarettes, but states could also impose a special tax on millionaires or rent out some state
asset (
like highways or parking lots).
As we move toward a
world with autonomous cars, as you've seen from the
likes of the Mercedes - Benz F 015 Luxury in Motion and Future Truck 2025, these type of technological advancements will give drivers the enjoyment of driving with some of the great safety
assets of autonomous vehicles.
Today's 24/7 social mobile
world has created a huge demand for digital
assets, especially the highly visual sort
like photos and videos.
Great snapshot of the situation but
like everything in this crazy, digitized and constantly changing
world, stay tuned because instability is the constant and what now seem
like established strengths and
assets today can become vestigial relics almost overnight.
Unfortunately, in a
world in which cash pays next to nothing and even riskier
assets,
like stocks and bonds, have a lower long - term expected return than they once did (according to a BlackRock analysis using Bloomberg data), holding a sizeable portion of one's retirement savings in cash could prevent many from reaching their financial goals.
We went from thinking about just diversifying between stocks and bonds to now diversifying across
asset classes, meaning large cap and small cap, value and growth, made the
world much more complex, but opportunities for advisors
like you, Joe, to help your clients by adding value through superior design, better diversification of portfolios.
Asset prices are always in an unstable equilibrium that takes account of the many views of what the
world will be
like over various time horizons.
«Much
like the laws of physics change from the
world of Newtonian large objects to the
world of quantum Einsteinian dynamics, so too might low interest rates at the zero - bound reorient previously held models that justified the stimulative effects of lower and lower yields on
asset prices and the real economy.»
In February, the G20 called for a coordinated stimulus program to be implemented by the
world's major economies — or at least the ones that can afford it — that would see countries borrow to spend on infrastructure
like subway lines and power - generating stations,
assets that will provide a short - term economic boost while laying the foundation for longer - term growth.
Concepts
like the Efficient Markets Hypothesis, the Efficient Frontier and rational expectations are simplifications of a complex
world that imply that a static portfolio of ex-post financial
assets can help us achieve our financial goals.
Using our definition from Bekaert and Wang,
assets with returns that are positively correlated with inflation over shorter periods
like 1 to 5 years represent an acceptable real -
world inflation hedge.
Here's how monetary policy operates in a
world like this (taken straight from Bernanke and Gertler, Monetary Policy and
Asset Price Volatility, 1999).
Outside the
world of mainstream
assets like stocks and bonds, wealthy investors are not afraid to stockpile collectibles
like fine wine, art, or rare coins.
«The cosy old
world of
asset management seems already seems
like a different era.
Doesn't work
like that ultimately, real
world investment math will crush you — the average return on equity, at the v best, is similar to other
asset classes (otherwise we'd all be out prospecting).
There is evidence suggesting that commodities have historically delivered equity -
like returns while smoothing overall volatility — in other words the best of both
worlds when it comes to
asset allocation strategies.
True, many people
like to call their vehicles an
asset, and in the business
world, this is the case.
There are fewer problems when there's only one clearly defined
asset class,
like Small - cap Growth, than nebulous objectives
like global, balanced,
asset allocation, target, life - cycle,
world, or hybrid.
Has «Flexible
Assets» that Pay Out Retirement Income
Like Life Does in the Real
World (AKA «as needed»)
They're called «Real
World»
assets because investment buckets are treated as stand - alone entities, each with ten income payout methods, all operating independently of everything else, and able to be controlled
like investment accounts in real life.
The problem with that is that you can only find index funds for a little more than half of the
asset classes in the Real
World (and using ETFs offer little - to - no help here, because they behave more
like mutual funds than index funds, plus they have much too little history for the results to be statistically significant).
Obviously it doesn't literally look
like a ps2 game... It was a metaphor, and the main structure of a game should be fixed a year out from release, textures and stuff will improve ofc but it's very rare the character models and game
world assets get more polygons etc so the game won't look just
like what they showed us but what the final thing should look
like should be something you can imagine based on what they showed us.
I enjoyed how this game acted as a counterpart to Super Mario 3D
World, sharing some
assets and having a linked story that made both games feel
like a more complete package.
The Witcher 3 didn't totally transcend all the issues of the huge open -
world RPG, but it accomplished the rare feat of making its open
world an
asset to its story, instead of a distraction
like Inquisition, or the real game,
like Skyrim.
I
liked the variety of levels and how unique they were, considering many of the same
assets from Super Mario
World can be found here.
Earth Wars chooses to have paper craft
like animations using hand - drawn art
assets to illustrate its
world, and this choice makes your attacks feel
like they have a wait that they may not otherwise carry.
A lot of Tri Force Heroes» graphical
assets are based on the previous 3DS game, A Link Between
Worlds, where we have an overhead grid -
like view much
like that of the early Zelda games.
From that point onwards, Nintendo —
like a joyous kid with a brand new toy — has a blast merging the unmovable staples of the Zelda franchise, such as dungeons, with the thrilling freedom of open -
world gameplay, which — in its state here — is brilliantly dressed up with survival elements that make the exploration of Hyrule a constant search for the vital
assets that allow a hero, who was originally almost naked and totally inept, to become a real threat to an unspeakable evil.
For example, individuals will value the present versus the future differently and will bring personal
world views on the importance of
assets like biodiversity, culture, and aesthetics.
BitUniverse has become quite popular as it's the only service in the
world to offer complete
asset management, even beating out leading apps
like Blockfolio.
The statement comes as other regulators around the
world are grappling with how to regulate digital
assets like bitcoin.
Unfortunately, the manat,
like many other reserve currencies in the
world including the Nigerian naira are dependent on the performance of certain
assets or industries such as oil, and will continue to become more volatile and unpredictable in the upcoming years.
«In a market with everything to play for, owning your own ecosystem in a decentralized
world like bitcoin is a valuable
asset.»