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Helping future investors understand finance and crypto using digestible analogies. I hope you brought your appetite. Not a financial advisor
Let Them Eat Cake🍃 Treasury Bill
TL,DR: Like lettuce, lacking substance Treasury Bills / Lettucelacking substanceshort lifespansafe and mildly nutritiousEatamology “T-Bills” or “Bills” for short refer to the hard copy form of these bonds, which looks very much like a dollar bill, and which was created by President Hoover at the start of the Great Depression to raise money for the government when tax income dropped dramatically. The Department of the Treasury, a division of the Executive Branch (which is controlled by POTUS),...
Let Them Eat Cake🚶Who are you?
TL,DR: Choose suitable investments based on your goals and risk tolerance. “Pete Townshend was conflicted because he feared The Who had sold out, and seeing The Sex Pistols, who were icons of rebellion, exacerbated him even more. Pete left that bar and passed out in a random doorway in Soho (a part of London). A policeman recognized him ("A policeman knew my name") and being kind, woke him and told him, "You can go sleep at home tonight (instead of a jail cell), if you can get up and walk awa...
Let Them Eat Cake☀️ ESG
TL,DR: ESG designations are labels meant to indicate ethical products ESG | Organic, Non-GMO, Ethically SourcedLike organic, non-gmo, and ethically sourced marketing labels, ESG labels are applied when a company allegedly meets regulatory standardsCan be related to the product itself, or associated impacts from the productEatamology “ESG” stands for environmental, social, and governance. It’s a broad and sometimes subjective label that attracts investors concerned about outcomes and ethics in...
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Price / Price Just like a product can be cheap, average, or expensive, bonds can be discounted, par, or premium. Since par is almost always $1,000, discount is any bond sold for <$1,000 and premium is any bond sold for >$1,000.
Issue Frequency / Distribution Just like product can be a limited edition or supermarket staple, bonds may be issued once or issued once every few days for 50 years.
Maturity / Expiration Date
Like most foods, almost all bonds have a maturity date, when they must be consumed.
Interest or Coupon Amount / Taste
When you buy a product, you expect a certain satisfaction from consuming it. For bond investors this is the return on the investment and shows up as periodic interest payments. When comparing the price of the product to the coupon amount, investors calculate an overall yield, which also reflects the success of the product.
Issuer / Ingredients
The substance of your product. It could be a single ingredient item, or an amalgamation.
Health Labels
Environmental Friendly / Non GMO
Socially Responsible / Organic
Corporate Governance Best Practices / Ethically Sourced
Warning Labels
Unregistered Security / Not FDA Approved
Currency Risk / Contains Caffeine
Political Risk / Processed in a Facility that Contains Nuts
Inflation Risk / Bag may expand at altitude
Interest Rate Risk / Not subject to future sales
Price / Price Just like a product can be cheap, average, or expensive, bonds can be discounted, par, or premium. Since par is almost always $1,000, discount is any bond sold for <$1,000 and premium is any bond sold for >$1,000.
Issue Frequency / Distribution Just like product can be a limited edition or supermarket staple, bonds may be issued once or issued once every few days for 50 years.
Maturity / Expiration Date
Like most foods, almost all bonds have a maturity date, when they must be consumed.
Interest or Coupon Amount / Taste
When you buy a product, you expect a certain satisfaction from consuming it. For bond investors this is the return on the investment and shows up as periodic interest payments. When comparing the price of the product to the coupon amount, investors calculate an overall yield, which also reflects the success of the product.
Issuer / Ingredients
The substance of your product. It could be a single ingredient item, or an amalgamation.
Health Labels
Environmental Friendly / Non GMO
Socially Responsible / Organic
Corporate Governance Best Practices / Ethically Sourced
Warning Labels
Unregistered Security / Not FDA Approved
Currency Risk / Contains Caffeine
Political Risk / Processed in a Facility that Contains Nuts
Inflation Risk / Bag may expand at altitude
Interest Rate Risk / Not subject to future sales
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