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Friday, January 27, 2017 Francisco Carneiro 2 Comments

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2,  goes down in 2´s 10,8,6,4 and....2

Which is the most indebted country in the world ? Government debt to GDP?

Japan

In what year was released the first i-phone

2007

what city is the capital of Peru

Lima

what is two thirds of 270

180

outside which New York building was John Lennon Killed

the Dakota Building

How many Monarchs reigned more than 70 years?

19 according to wikipedia

How many years dis Queen Victoria reigned?

63 years 

what was the age when Ray Croc opens the first McDonald's franchise?

62 years of age. I was shocked by this when i read his biography. 

In how many countries is McDonalds currently established?

120

There is one country that has only one McDonalds establishment?

Vatican. 

I also was impressed by the 2n country in the world with more Mcdonal restaurants , Japan with 2975, more than China!

Quiz 7

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Which is the most indebted country in the world ? Government debt to GDP?

In what year was released the first i-phone

what city is the capital of Peru

what is two thirds of 270

outside which New York building was John Lennon Killed

How many Monarchs reigned more than 70 years?

How many years dis Queen Victoria reigned?

what was the age when Ray Croc opens the first McDonald's franchise?

In how many countries is McDonalds currently established?

There is one country that has only one McDonalds establishment?

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Answers 6

Monday, January 23, 2017 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

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The first one is 51, doubles every time the spread








one Hammer on the right hand side

in the second scale change  one file for 3 hammers

 1 file  3 hammers = one hatch and one hammer

this is the same as

1 file 2 hammers = one hatch

in the bottom change the left hand side to

2 hatch = 2 files 4 hammers

2 files 4 hammers different from 2 files 3 hammers (miss one Hammer)



which US city has been hit with the most tornados?

Oklahoma
sodium chloride is most commonly called what?

salt
which city has the largest population in the world?

Tokyo
According the the Economist Big Mac Index (price of a Big Mac in various countries in the same currency) published in 2017 there are only 5 countries in the world more expensive than the United States? 

Switzerland +22%
Norway +8%Sweden +2%
Venezuela +2% (official FX for sure)
Brazil +1%
What is the most popular board game of all time?

Chess
which athlete has won the most Olympic medals?

Phelps
The Nobel Foundation in Sweden awarded already until 2015,  671 Nobel prizes in Science (Chemistry, Physics,....). what are the top 5 countries with the most awards?

US 327
UK 104
Germany 89
France 37
Japan 22

Quiz 6

Monday, January 23, 2017 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

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which US city has been hit with the most tornados?

sodium chloride is most commonly called what?

which city has the largest population in the world?

According the the Economist Big Mac Index (price of a Big Mac in various countries in the same currency) published in 2017 there are only 5 countries in the world more expensive than the United States? 


What is the most popular board game of all time?

which athlete has won the most Olympic medals?

The Nobel Foundation in Sweden awarded already until 2015,  671 Nobel prizes in Science (Chemistry, Physics,....). what are the top 5 countries with the most awards?


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Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

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1.253    4 , 8 16....... in a Z

2.Aspirin comes from the bark of what tree?
White Willow Tree

3.Who declined the 1964 Nobel prize for literature?
Jean Paul Sartre

4.What does Roger mean when communicating via radio?
Received

5.Where is the origin of Tomato?
Mexico, Tomato only arrived in Europe in the 16th century

6.According with the United nations which country received more tourists in 2015?
France, International Tourist Arrivals = 84 million in 2015

7.What is the oldest Stock Exchange?
Amsterdam Stock exchange

8.Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Serbia and 5 other countries have a currency with the same name. What is the name?
Dinar

9.What was the first department store to open in the United States?
Macy's

10.Which are the 3 companies that have survived longest in the Dow Jones Industrial Index?
Procter, Exxon Mobil & United Technologies.

11.D 9 points

Quiz 5

Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

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2.Aspirin comes from the bark of what tree?

3.Who declined the 1964 Nobel prize for literature?

4.What does Roger mean when communicating via radio?

5.Where is the origin of Tomato?

6.According with the United nations which country received more tourists in 2015?

7.What is the oldest Stock Exchange?

8.Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Serbia and 5 other countries have a currency with the same name. What is the name?

9.What was the first department store to open in the United States?

10.Which are the 3 companies that have survived longest in the Dow Jones Industrial Index?

11.




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When you grow you start to create rules and processes! Don't

Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

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Yes you get what you pay for. simple.

Tuesday, January 17, 2017 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

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Enron had the following Value Statement,
Integrity, 
Communication 
Respect and 
Excellence


The Real Company Values, as opposed to the nice sounding values, are shown by who gets promoted, rewarded or let go

Rick Hastings Netflix

Yes you get what you pay for. simple. when you promote someone in your firm people will copy that person. it works.

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Tuesday, January 17, 2017 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

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1. 7 

i could not answer this one in less than 1 minute. 
Taking the top row of circles, numbers in the central circle equal the sum of the numbers in corresponding segments of the left and right hand circles. In the bottom row, numbers in the central circle equal the difference between numbers in corresponding segments of the left and right hand circles

2.Which actor that once played James Bond previously competed in the Mr.Universe bodybulding competition?

3.What is the % of outstanding public debt of Japan is owned by the central bank of Japan?

40%

4.What is the world's largest Active Volcano?

Mauna Loa (Hawaii)
5,what is the speed limit in Expressways /Motorways in Germany?

No speed limit (130 advisory)

6.The expiration date on water bottles is for what?

For the bottle

7.which is the only country in the world that hasn't a rectangular flag?

Nepal
8.What is the longest living animal (not snails or small animals)?

A new study out this August names the Greenland shark the longest lived vertebrate on earth. 400 years. Almost all the animals on the top of the list live in cold climate!

9.An employee makes a single deposit of $1,000 in a savings account with an interest rate of 1,% per year. What is the balance in the account after 10 y?


<1500 (1250.23)

Quiz 4

Tuesday, January 17, 2017 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

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2.Which actor that once played James Bond previously competed in the Mr.Universe bodybulding competition?

3.What is the % of outstanding public debt of Japan is owned by the central bank of Japan?

4.What is the world's largest Active Volcano?

5,what is the speed limit in Expressways /Motorways in Germany?

6.The expiration date on water bottles is for what?

7.which is the only country in the world that hasn't a rectangular flag?

8.What is the longest living animal (not snails or small animals)?

9.An employee makes a single deposit of $1,000 in a savings account with an interest rate of 1,% per year. What is the balance in the account after 10 y?

<1500
>1500
1500

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Build better cars

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From Quartz:

Germany’s auto industry hit back at Trump. German economic minister Sigmar Gabriel and BMW pushed back against the US president-elect’s threat to tax Mexican-made imports to the US by German automakers, and his complaint that few American cars can be found on German roads. “Build better cars,” Gabriel said.

South Korea and Ghana had the same income per capita in the 1950's. One received far more aid, advice and political intervention than the other. It is now by far the poorer of the two. In General, Asian economies grew their way out of poverty in the late twentieth century, while African economies failed to be aided out of poverty. Trade, not aid, proved the best way to achieve an increase in prosperity.

Matt Ridley

I think Trump is going to do some little show off to start and after that he will figure out a way to trade business as usual. Trade is the only way to increase prosperity and yes US will not do a lot of cars by the simple reason that they suck (except TESLA )

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Friday, January 13, 2017 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

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Hans Christian Andersen

81 64+17

Japan 25,3% , Russia spends the minimum 10,3% of the household budget. Russians spend 30% of the money in food, the biggest % in the world according to the Economist.

9,5 b

Asia , Singapore, Macau, Taiwan, HK and South Korea. I thought it woould be Europe!

Jericho

Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth, completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano.

Dublin

-0,22% yes it's negative ! The yield is the annual return of this investment. so every year the investor loses 0,22% 

Quiz 3

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1.Who wrote the fairy tale " The ugly Duckling"



3.which country spends the biggest % of Household money in Housing?

4.The world population in 2015 was 7,3 billion. What is the UN expectation to 2050?

5.The top 5 countries with the lowest fertility rates (children per woman) are in the same continent? which one?

6.what is the oldest city continually inhabited in the world?

7.who led the first expedition to sail around the world?

8.What is the capital of the Republic of Ireland?

9.What is the yield of the 10 year government bonds of Switzerland?


have a great weekend. Do some sport


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Thursday, January 12, 2017 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

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1.58 and 86

16x2 = 32....
multilpes of 7

2.When a company goes public

3.Liberty Island

4.depth 1 Fathom = 6 feet

5.Russia

Quiz 2

Thursday, January 12, 2017 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

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1.
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2.What is an IPO?

3.What island does the statue of Liberty stand on?

4.Fathom is the unity of?

5.What country has the largest land mass?

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answers 1

Wednesday, January 11, 2017 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

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Dom Pèrignon
jupiter
A debt security similar to an IOU

Quiz 1

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American Dream is still alive

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The big question of our time

Tuesday, January 10, 2017 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

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I always think about why a person from my country Portugal working in Portugal is a bad employee, low productivity, long hours, low salary, etc..., but once he moves to Switzerland or Germany he is one of the best! The same guy the same qualifications?

why?

i guess there are habits in some countries, simple habits, to be on time, to sleep well with silence that make people really productive & effective

solution:

move to a country that helps you grow

In the graph below we see that in the poor countries apparently people "work" long hours. Unfortunately they are not working

My new year predictions for the future

Friday, January 06, 2017 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

Robert Frost

My view of the world for 2017 and on is the following

1.The improvement of everything that we have seen in the last 200 years from declining in crime, curruption, growing life expectancy etc... will continue. These are facts not impressions.
2.The good old days were not good at all
3.Productuvity growth is deflationary. I see more discoveries and new Technics to do more with less.
4.No inflation
5.Plenty of free time. Lot of people with not a lot to do. 
6.Leisure, sports, meditation, tourism, Yoga, Shiatzu, culture will continue to grow
7.Very difficult environment to make money with money
8.Specialization will increase with online information it pays to be the best
9.The EU will stay together because the younger generation want it
10.Less and Less babies everywhere
11.If it pays big time to be the best in a Globalized world the big contries that strive to be the best will continue to do well
12.People will continue to be nicer to each other and to treat well animals etc... more & more
13.Communications are almost free in the Developed countries (Skype, What's up, etc...) more things will be free in the future (energy, trasportation etc...)
14.As long as open borders and "free" commerce are still intact it's doesn't matter which government we have. less and less people will vote and really it doesn't matter
15.The countries that are out of free commerce will continue to get poor & poor
16.One day governments will try to tax asset's and not income. It will be trendy to have very little
17.Brexit doesn't matter as long as they trade freely with Europe
18.oil could go down big time in 2017
19.Interest rates will tend to zero
20.Education will be free. It doesn't make sense to pay a lot for high education
21.Move to the cities will continue because it's more fun, more security, more opportunity to live in a big city
22.Number of Holiday days is going to grow
23.Technology & big data will win over tradition & guessing
24.The countries that vote for less open market policies will suffer and will be poor. It takes time but the result is always the same
25.I don't see a bull market in equities
26.I see bull market in some stock's and companies not markets
27.Since people are flowing to cities the planet says thanks. More forests, more free space etc...

Life has never been better but we have to get busy. There are reasons to get busy, culture, education and many many things are essentially free

enjoy them! 

Work will work when nothing else is working

Wednesday, January 04, 2017 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

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If you want an average, successful life, it doesn’t take much planning.....................

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No hurry, no pause

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you can get 95%of the results you want by calmly putting one foot in front of the other

Tim Ferriss

I think this is very much true, do't rush but don't ever stop. just keep going. In my bike races if i stop to pee it's almost impossible to get back to the group! That it's why i never stop, just keep going for hours and hours.

here is a picture from saturday we rode until the end of Europe, Cabo da Roca the most western point in Europe.

Across the sea we have USA.