"The real is not given to us, but put to us by way of a riddle."
- Albert Einstein

Die Katze im Sack und der Kater danach - drum prüfe, wenn das Investment auch nüchtern betrachtet, Bestand haben soll                                                                                                   von Hans-Dieter Rüppel

und noch etwas. Entnommen der Website von Pragmatic Capitalism www.pragcap.com :

There’s Nothing “Natural” About the Economy and the Financial Market               At the most basic level, the entire economy and financial system is highly unnatural. It is entirely made up out of thin air. Stocks, bonds, cash, money – all of it is just a figment of the human imagination conjured up from nothing to try to reflect the state of what is. In some ways the financial system and the monetary system is real as it reflects things in the real world that we transfer from one another like real goods and services, but in another sense it is a total fiction in that it also reflects things like intangible services and goodwill. But even those tangible goods are highly unnatural – iPhones don’t grow in the wild after all.

The point is that our entire economy is a human construct. It is created by animals who intervene in markets on a daily basis. We are all making discretionary decisions every minute of the day. There is no “natural” order to all of this. There is only the constant state of human beings manipulating an otherwise natural world. And that is, after all, what we are best at. We are the only animals on the planet constantly disrupting the natural order of things.

This is primarily the result of the fact that human beings run surpluses against all other things in nature. We utilize tools that ensure that we don’t have to rely purely on that “natural” order of the world. We don’t wait for the seasons for warmth. We conjure heat up by manipulating the natural order of things. We don’t wait for the migration of animals to feast on meat. We conjure it and store it up as we please. There is nothing “natural” about the way the economy and the financial system operate. It is, in fact, a giant manipulation of the natural world.

We usually hear about the “natural” state of the financial markets during some political diatribe. Or we hear about how discretionary intervention in the economy is bad. Or how anything other than passive investing is silly. All of these ideas are based on some flawed myth about a “natural” order in the economy or the financial markets. But this idea of a “natural” state of being ignores the fact that human beings only created an economy and a financial system because we have become masters of manipulating our natural surroundings. It is our greatest strength and perhaps our greatest weakness

Ziemlich heftig, den “ Animal Spirit “ im Zusammenhang mit dem Naturumbau zu bemühen......., oder doch nicht so ganz neben der Kapp?

Schliesslich sei noch darauf verweisen, dass auch Anlageprofis Ihre Prognose- und Optimierungsgrenzen bei der Selektion von Vermögenswerten kennen. Trotz des Einsatzes ganzer Wissenschaftsstäbe und Datenbanken im sog. Riskmanagement von Kapitalallokotionen im Portfolioaufbau bleiben Imponderabilien, die nicht 100%ig erfassbar sind. Zitat:

“ Ask budget forecasters if they ever find certainty in their line of work and you will get the same answer: Certainty doesn’t exist. The only sure thing, says Kristen Cox, executive director of Utah’s budget office, is “no matter how good we get at forecasting and modeling, we will never get it right. The trends [we track] are what we know. But it’s the unknowable that will nail you. “                                                                                                                                                                         Link zum Zitat: http://www.governing.com/finance101/gov-volatile-economy-prep.html