Happy 2016!  We are only a few hours away.  Here in Maryland, we are having a Green Christmas, with temperature hovering around the 60s, the Cherry Blossom bloomed already.

I am a most happy dude, cause I just published eBook #8 "Zero to Billions: Anyone Can,  48 Hedge Fund Self-made Billionaires: 22 Lessons for Everyone.", ePublished in Amazon Kindle.  I just made it in 2015 with a few hours spare.  What a feeling!  Now this energize me for 2016.  And I expect another very adventurous and productive year. 

The book tuirned out to be quite intensive, even though I have been reading and learning about the top traders in the world since 1998.  The fun part is there is so much to learn, and our world is changing very fast, faster than ever before.  So, excuse my bias here, you are probably ahead of the curve or you are behind the curve. 

Now, I am working on my next project:  eBook #9 "Fashion Self-made Billionaire".  I am not much of a fashion person, but my wife is.  And I follow her around from shopping mall to shopping mall, doing the favorite American activities: "Shop Till You Drop".

It is amazing to me that booksstores have been closing for the past 10 years.  Now Barnes and Nobles is the only on-the-street bookstore around.  I love books and it is sad to see them disappearing.  Here no shortage of shoe storees.  For every bookstore, there are 100 shoe stores. 

Now, it would be fun  to learn about NIKE, New Balance, Columbia, GAP,  Forever 21, Diesel Jean etc.  I only own Columbia clothing.  

I think last week, the founder of North Face died in a kayak accident somewhere in Chile.  He also created Esprit.  Can;'t remember his name now. 

Wishing everyone a Most Happy and Successful 2016.!

Strange Statyistics: 100,000 Cage People, 350,000 millionaires in Hong Kong

Writing Hong Kong Self-made Billionaires is a fascinating and humbling experience.  I grew up in Hong Kong and I thought I knew it all, until I started gathering all the data

Hong Kong has 100,000 Cage People,  these are not homeless, but they live in Chicken Cages, and obviously created quite a stir when viewed by Westerners -- how can people live like that?

But here in US, we have same or similar problems.  Many foreigners tourists came to see the Homeless in America in LA and NY, where in 1 district, you can find thousands of them, quite a scene for the world's richest country.

here is the strange math:
100,000 cage people = let's say sheep
350,000 millionaires = let's say lions

according to Marxist doctrine, the rich exploit the poor, hence the lions will eat the sheep here.

but with 3.5 lions to each sheep, the lions will soon die of starvation.

the Marxist pyramid only works if there is 1 lion to every 50 sheep

1 sweat shop factory owner to 50 proletariats

you can have 3 factory owners to 1 workers.

-- Let's say LA --
My stats shows LA has 300,000 millionaires and 10,000 homeless

Aha, if we tax the rich in LA, then all the homeless will have swiming pools plus food.

Now, please do not laugh, because under Peron in Argentina, this was exactly what happened.
The govt printed money so the poor can have swimming pool.   Similarly, in Nazis Germany, the government built swimming pool for the workers.  I can only call this a Paradox, cause there is no easy answer to solve all our social ills and income inequality.

I heard people say "Occupy Wall Street", or "Occupy Central District" in HK,
but have yet to hear "Occupy Hollywood" or "Occupy Silicon Valley"

On a Record-Breaking pace.

I am happy, happy, happy.  Yesterday I ePublished my 7th book "Zero to Billions: Anyone Can, 43 Hong Kong Self-made Billionaires: Hong Kong as #1".

My goal is to ePublish eBook #8 "Hedge Fund Self-made Billionaires" before 12/31/2015.  If I can do this, I think I am on world record breaking pace.  I would have published 8 eBooks in One Year.
I don't need a gratitude journal. 

First thing first, I need to edit another version of eBook #7 "Hong Kong SMB".  Once published, I found too many things I am unahappy with.  I will spend 12 hours to read over every sentence and rewrite or rephrase all the awkward phrases.  There is always room for improvement.  I plan to ePublish version 2 by 12/3/2015.

It is 1 am on 12/1/15 and I am back to work, or rather to write.