Founder, Market Thinker

Mark Tinker

Mark Tinker has over 35 years experience as an investor, market strategist and economist. Having spent more than 20 years as a sell side strategist and being top rated on numerous occasions and surveys he moved to investment management in 2006 to run global equity portfolios in London and subsequently moved to Hong Kong in 2013 to help establish an Investment Management business for a top 20 international asset manager. He first started writing investment weeklies for his employers in 1989, developing a style characterised under the title Market Thinking and has been a regular commentator and presenter on CNBC, Bloomberg and other business channels, where his approach of rationalising market behaviour rather than making short term predictions on high frequency market data provides a welcome balance to his client audience.

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Making Sense of the Narrative

Macroeconomics

<ul><li>Karl Marx famously said that Religion was the opiate of the masses, while legendary Liverpool Football managers Bill Shankly said Football “wasn’t just a matter of life and death, it was more important than that”.</li><li>Certainly, in these troubled times it has been amazing how ‘real life’ has been suspended these last few weeks, thus we might ask, is Football, especially as represented by the World Cup, now a global Religion?</li><li>Football is, of course, a consumer good with no physical aspect, its adherents pay large amounts of money but receive no ‘goods’ in return.</li></ul>

Karl Marx famously said that Religion was the opiate of the masses, while legendary Liverpool Football managers Bill Shankly said Football “wasn’t just a matter of life and death, it was more important than that”.Certainly, in these troubled times it has been amazing how ‘real life’ has been suspended these last few weeks, thus we might ask, is Football, especially as represented by the World Cup, now a global Religion?Football is, of course, a consumer good with no physical aspect, its adherents pay large amounts of money but receive no ‘goods’ in return.

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