17 May 2012: Link to Jason Apollo Voss’ Nationwide (UK) Interview with the BBC’s Today Programme
Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on May 17, 2012 in Blog | 3 commentsToday Jason Apollo Voss, author of The Intuitive Investor was privileged to be interviewed by Simon Jack of the BBC’s #1 ranked radio show, the Today programme. The subject was Facebook’s (ticker symbol: FB) initial public offering (IPO). Thanks very much to Mr. Jack and the Today Programme! It was a treat to be broadcast to approximately 10% of the UK population!
Missing your intuitive perspectives on these wild times!
Hi Michael,
I bet! My quick intuitive take on what’s going on. Strength and resiliency is building in people themselves in lieu of competent action from politicians, financiers and business people. To me it feels like people are beginning to take responsibility for their own lives and independent of political mandate. Long-term this is a hugely important development as the power people will eventually come into alignment with this renewed reality. Unfortunately, the old way of being still has consequences impending. Each of the first world’s countries, almost without exception – U.S., EU, China, India – all have massive amounts of public and private debt. Analogous to the consumer who extends his or her means through credit cards until interest payments exceed income or until the ability to revolve the credit end, governments are in BIG trouble. The most graceful way out of the pickle is for governments to find a way to have budget surpluses to begin paying down the debt. These surpluses all involve some sort of wealth transfer from the citizenry which is likely to damage the economies of each nation. However, the sooner we get to the day of reckoning, the better. It is, as you know, a time of great uncertainty investment-wise. If you are long-term investor there are going to be great times in the next few years to plunk down your cash into amazing assets at very cheap prices. In the meantime assets that are either hard (think: real estate) or that generate a reliable stream of income (think: US corporate debt) are going to be more insulated from the declines than other assets in my opinion.
If you are starved for my writing, please check out http://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/author/jasonvoss/ for the blog posts I have rendered for CFA Institute. They are similar to ‘What My Intuition Tells Me Now’ content. A wave of interest in my thoughts is rising and I am trying to think of ways of creating content for a wider audience that would allow me to stop paddling and get up on the surfboard to ride that wave.
My two cents!
Jason
Excellent! That’s the voice I’ve been missing!
Yes, I’ve checked the CFA site now and then. Very competent and professional. But perhaps not as freeform and …intuitive as home base here?
All the best.