VICA Partners, June 9, 2025 The dollar’s reserve share has slipped from 71% to 58%. This isn’t collapse — it’s erosion. The world diversifies against confidence, not currency. The Familiar Warning — and the Flawed Assumption A familiar argument is making the rounds again: that America’s persistent trade deficits will eventually bring the dollar to … Read more
Stay Informed and Stay Ahead: Market Watch, September 19th, 2024. ECONOMICS This article provides an in-depth comparison of Jerome Powell’s current monetary easing strategies with Alan Greenspan’s 1990s “soft landing,” focusing on their differing macroeconomic contexts, labor market dynamics, financial market risks, and geopolitical influences. It offers strategic insights tailored for business leaders and economists … Read more
Stay Informed and Stay Ahead: Opinion, March 13th, 2024. Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, is known for disciplined value based investing and longer-term vision. Despite past success, his traditional market model faces challenges in today’s markets. Pivot in Market Dynamics: Recent years have witnessed profound shifts in market dynamics. The ascendancy of technology and … Read more
The Federal Reserve as of August 2023 was no longer predicting Recession: To quote Investor Jeremy Grantham “the Federal Reserve record on predicting recessionary cycles is guaranteed to be wrong! So why don’t we support the soft-landing scenario… Vica forecasts that the US will have a Recession, starting as early as Q4 ’23 and deep … Read more
OPINION People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision “Elon Musk”. And you get people to buy into that vision by developing a clear vision of what you want to introduce “accelerate the advent of sustainable transport”. Next steps include … invite others’ ideas, leverage feedback, communicate progress, tailor your pitch … Read more
OPINION That extensive gap between market knowledge and results does not exist in any other field. There are people with no financial training or background who on average statistically do better than trade professionals with investing money into the market. The real problem is investing money rarely follows the rules of finance Today algorithms based … Read more
OPINION We see Analyst bear and bull reporting as a conduit to double digit short term returns. As Its an example of well touted market noise that effects price in either direction for about 36-48 hours and then corrects back to longer term averages. Important to note that extreme positions tend not to support the … Read more
OPINION Order anticipation strategies have attracted intense attention and generated heated debates in the context of high-frequency trading (HFT). The problem of “back-running” risk that order flow leaks valuable information substantially changes the fundamental investor’s behavior. Trading algorithms enable order anticipation strategies in an attempt to locate and trade in front of large buyers and … Read more
OPINION We live in a time when the defense of our beliefs threatens our future. Noise and predictability are human constructs. Problems today Human knowledge and action can’t generate sustainable performance. Customers are skeptical that professional investment management can consistently provide benefits that justify its cost. Today investors dismiss the possibility that these new systems … Read more