{"id":2060,"date":"2025-11-23T22:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T22:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/?p=2060"},"modified":"2025-11-24T07:40:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T07:40:41","slug":"the-trading-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2025\/11\/23\/the-trading-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trading Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Not sure how I came across this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Trading-Game-Sunday-Times-bestseller\/dp\/1802062734\/\">book<\/a>, likely some random video from youtube. The author is a character&#8230; and the book is good, it is not the crazyness from &#8220;The Wolf of Wall Street&#8221; and it tells the history from poor to richest of an east London lad with a talent in Maths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most shocking things, it is how he used inequality for this trading. And because I read recently read about interest rates, there is a paragraph that is a gem. Rich getting richer, poor getting poorer. You put interest rate at zero because you want to encourage spending and rise prices&#8230;, but that is not happening. Rich dont spend money in the same things as poor people&#8230; rich people buy assets, so stocks are high, real state is high. And they have access to super low rate loans&#8230; so it is circle vice. Middle class is extinct. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am jealous he could ride his bicycle in Tokyo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9GumiLIxLMM\">video<\/a> that shows things from  the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure how I came across this book, likely some random video from youtube. The author is a character&#8230; and the book is good, it is not the crazyness from &#8220;The Wolf of Wall Street&#8221; and it tells the history from poor to richest of an east London lad with a talent in Maths. One &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2025\/11\/23\/the-trading-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Trading Game&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2065,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions\/2065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}