Potency Of Money

the potency of relationship & money ...

Money buy lots of things but not everything有钱不是万能 没钱万万不能

Without money, life goes on but without health, you are half gone

Do not use youthful(ness) energy to chase wealth and use wealth to pay for health & enrich the doctors

Steve Jobs final days was living with life support machines, and his wealth couldn't buy/pay anyone to 'takeover' his sufferings

Someone quipped, "Money can't buy happiness!" That's plausibly because you're enslaved to money钱奴 or, maybe you don't have that much money to 'throw' [spend]

Spend within your means ~ it depends on who you are; a $2m Rolls Royce is petty cash to the top 5% whereas the Rag & Bone Man whose donation of $10 could be his entire heirloom

Money surely can buy friends, associates and relatives 贫居闹市无人问，富在深山有远亲

Love is a many splendor thing. When you are blindly in love, everything works. When you need to live, build, create and harness a wholesome family, efforts and money rule, with the latter being the prime mover

The zest to make more money is not evil in itself but the hoarding of monies is. People will live easier; lives will be lighter and sufferings & poverty ease if the top 5% are willing to spare 20% of their wealth to help the bottom 30%. That's not a demand but a water down effects that reflect generosity, magnanimity, charity, care & concerns for the poor, less endowed & the less abled  

Relationship is based largely on Trust & Respect

Trust and respect are undermined when [the] Rules are changed frequently. Worse, when leaders refuse to respond when the mass[commoners] is sinking under the weight of incremental costs of living ~ uncertainty breeds contempt & anarchy follows

Stock markets were ideal platforms for wealth transfers, but insider trades and related#party#transactions are blurring the lines of transparency, equity, fairness and unbiasedness

The smart monies and crocked funds will "clash and die" when adversity seep in; Algorithm trading & AI-guided trade will automatically trigger Buy/Sell signals henceforth forcing aberration in markets. The impact is extreme rise/fall which can drag down major financial institutions

The Sheep will go down with the Bulls or Bears ~ the fool & his money will soon part

There is a quarterly cyclical low in July [January, April, July, October]; this is likely to follow with a rebound of sorts

Be forewarned of geopolitical uncertainties and extreme valuations of markets, not forgetting inflated national debts, interest rates gyrations & AI pop 

Gold $4,018 & Silver $56.32 seem 'the safer haven', not without risks though 

Oil [Crude $81.78 Brent $88.10] should steady around $70/80 level ~ short term upside is less likely to break >$100 [shortage of oil supplies is a problem, but when the global economy contract substantially and is paralyzed, demand for oil will be muted]

Money build & expand relationship

Without money, your relationships circle contracts. Is this a problem? NOT really! When you are born, you came alone & naked and your relationship was almost zero ~ get used to it