Sulaiman H. Al-Bader

@SAlthajeb @K_University @CFAinstitute @cba_ku مفخرة طلبة جامعة الكويت 🙏🏼

الحمد الله الذي تتم بنعمته الصالحات أبارك لفريق @K_University عبدالعزيز هشام العبيد محمد عدنان الكندري سلطان ضرار الشهاب محمد عامر الزعبي آلاء ظهير حمدان الفوز والمحافظة على اللقب CFA Research Challenge بإشراف النوخذة بو حمد @Shalbader @CFAinstitute @cba_ku فخورين فيكم👏🏻👏🏻

Housing affordability in #Kuwait has become a major concern for many families. The house-to-income ratio stands at over 15 times, classifying the country as ‘Impossibly Unaffordable’. @shalbader presents a model to understand the crisis and inform policy wp.me/p3Khxv-46p

Bibi’s thinking on war. Strike first and be victorious. Everyone likes a winner… US alliance will take care of itself even if there was initial objection. From his Autobiography “My story”

هناك ٣ محاكم يُعرض عليها الانسان ١- محكمة الدولة، حيث يحكم القاضي ٢- محكمة المجتمع، حيث يحكم الناس ٣- و محكمة الآخرة… حيث يحكم الله سبحانه وتعالى وإن تَمَكَّن البعض من التحايل على المحكمتين الأولى والثانية، فلا مفر من العدل في الآخرة على يد ’خير الحاكمين‘

رمضان هالسنة… غير Google searches for the word “Quran” highest ever. (FYI, same trend for the word “Bible”)

Number of UAE students studying in the USA halves. Reasons: - Safety - Costs - and lately, US stance on Gaza Meanwhile number of US students studying in the UAE grew >50% thenationalnews.com/news/uae/2024/…

Going through old files and surprised on how well this article, read in Dec 2007, aged. Title for remaining GCC countries was Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦: Just getting warmed up Qatar 🇶🇦: Full of energy Bahrain 🇧🇭: Banking on finance UAE 🇦🇪: Diversified and dynamic Oman 🇴🇲: After the storm

Why do people commit Evil? A short thread on my take…

@GRDecter @TaviCosta Chart this with interest rates and youll see a different result. Volker started hiking (enough) end of 79. The idea is “keeping at it”… From Paul Volker’s book of the same title.

1970s inflation had 3 separate waves Are we just on wave 1 of 3 now? (credit to @tavicosta for the chart)

Lesson: Over the past few months, we hear experts talking, with some confidence, about how they expect things to play out in the coming year. A lesson from the past 3 examples is to leave room for events you can't anticipate and be prepared adjust as circumstances change.

Obs. 3: In January 2022, most analysts -including Henry Kissinger- did not expect war (Russia invading Ukraine) to be the pivotal geopolitical event of the year; if not the decade. Source: Min 15:25 youtu.be/6b89jcNqgJo?t=…

3 Observations and a lesson

كَتَبَ…و عَدَلَ

The six #GCC nations need to coordinate on a minimum contribution to their Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF) as they have done in OPEC to ensure oil prices stability and prepare for a post-oil world. @Saoudaalfuraih for the blog wp.me/p3Khxv-3of

@lalfuraih results.kuwait2022.bornan.net/#/kuwait2022/s… حاضر

@adwaniaj اي والله… ويني عن هالحركة من زمان

@elonmusk @Cbiggs90 @Tesla @Teslarati @JaneidyEve @elonmusk Camels also please for Arabian market 🐪

@Cbiggs90 @Tesla @Teslarati @JaneidyEve The car knows that something is there, just doesn’t know that they’re horses yet, but it will. Dogs, cats and many other animals will also be recognized.

Could we get the Tesla software to better recognize horses in the drive thru..at Whataburger? This is Texas you know. jk. @Tesla @elonmusk @Teslarati @JaneidyEve

Kuwait University’s team will be presenting soon in the CFA challenge. Regardless of the results today I’m super proud of the work the team has put in… Superb job Abdulwahab Al Adwani, Ghazal Ammoka and Taiba Al Fulaij 👍🏼