Happiness and Wealth

Can Money Buy Happiness? Everybody is searching for happiness! Many people say that money doesn’t buy happiness, but perhaps what money can do is to allow a path for happiness. Anyway, this blog as the reader knows is not about Philosophy. Here we are discussing economics and looking at interesting data. So let’s see how Money and Happiness can be unfold in this world of Vasconomics. Wealth In a previous article when referring to Wealth, I presented the metric GDP per Capita PPP.

February 23, 2020

Valued Added by Activity in Different Countries

When meeting people from different countries, they would sometimes ask me what the biggest industries in Portugal and what are Portugal’s most known products. Then, a straightforward answer for the most recent years is “Tourism” since it has been broadly increasing in the last decade. However, I could still remember the prominence of the textile industry in the north, more specifically, the shoemaking industry in Guimarães. On top of that, there are the stories of Olive Oil and Cork industry – since Portugal is the biggest producer/exporter of cork in the world.

January 6, 2020

Investment Analysis, Part 2: Fundamental Analysis

This article on Investment Analysis is the second part of a series comprising two articles. In the first article I focused on Technical Analysis providing firstly a comparison with Fundamental Analysis, later an introduction to its foundations and concluding with an overview of the application of some of its indicators. Now, on this second part, I will focus on Fundamental Analysis. The structure of the article is divided into 4 parts: an immersion on Fundamental Analysis framework, a summary of the Multiples Approach application and the link with the topic of Analysts’ Recommendations.

January 3, 2020

Investment Analysis, Part 1: Technical Analysis

In this article, I will discuss the topic of Investment Analysis, that is, the method used for making the decision regarding an investment in the stock market. There are two main approaches when undertaking the analysis of a stock traded in the market: Technical and Fundamental Analysis. It is important to understand that these methods use different inputs with the same goal of evaluating an investment opportunity. The structure of the article is divided into 3 parts: an introduction defining the two mentioned approaches, a deeper examination of Technical Analysis foundations and an overview of the application of some Technical Analysis indicators’.

November 30, 2019

Deposits and Inflation

In this article I intend to explain the concepts of Nominal Interest rate, Inflation and Real Interest rate. I believe that the general public knows the first two concepts, however, I am not so sure about the third one. Therefore, the final goal is to understand this last concept by having a thorough view of all the concepts and observe their representation. “Whatever it takes” In 2012, the Eurozone was financially falling apart, getting deeper into its infamous “Eurozone debt crisis” after the bailouts of Ireland, Greece and Portugal, alongside multiple banks’ bailing out domestically.