Tag: money

• A Thought Exercise in AI Overlords

  I’m not sure you could call the following “analysis” per se, but it’s an idea that’s been rolling around in my head for a while. Some background: Monetary policy is often times described with the following axiom: Expansionary monetary policy is like pushing on a string, while restrictive policy is like pulling on a string.…

  Thomas Schleusener

  January 6, 2026

  Markets, Non-Fiction, Philosophy

  ai, artificial-intelligence, bonds, Economy, fed, finance, inflation, interest rates, investing, monetary policy, money

• In the grand scheme of things, how big is Apple?

  

  Apple, Inc., producer of the iPhone, announces quarterly earnings on Tuesday. This WSJ article claims that the cash and cash equivalents on APPL’s balance sheet will exceed $250 billion dollars. I put this article together to give you some idea what that looks like. Relative to the World: $250 billion is about the same size…

  Thomas Schleusener

  May 1, 2017

  Markets, Non-Fiction

  aapl, apple, cash, censorship, gdp, geography, google, greece, grexit, how big is apple, iphone, market cap, money, relative, relative size of apple, revenue, size, usa

• Who’s got the power?

    When interest rates go up, and they will, the 50% increase across the board will topple markets, namely bond markets. Today’s interest rates are unprecedented. The lowest possible bound for an interest rate USED to be 0%. In finance terms, we call it the ZLB or the zero lower bound. Today bond yields in Germany…

  Thomas Schleusener

  August 3, 2016

  Markets, Non-Fiction

  banks, bonds, cash, clinton, ecb, fed, fed funds rate, federal reserve, ffr, financial crisis, financial institutions, fungible, interest rates, money, negative interest rates, pensions, power, rates, trump, us fed, us federal reserve, wall street, zlb