{"id":510980,"date":"2026-03-08T10:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T10:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/510980\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T10:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T10:39:14","slug":"the-world-gets-a-grim-reminder-about-scarcity-merryn-talks-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/510980\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Gets a Grim Reminder About Scarcity: Merryn Talks Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">In early October I wrote in this newsletter that if you felt like you\u2019d missed out on easy money in Japan, you might want to look at South Korea. Nice valuations, same improving corporate governance vibe and, at the time at least, remarkably under-owned. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">This went pretty well. So much so that I had been meaning to point out that the KOSPI was getting a little overpriced. I wish I had: as the war in the Middle East began, it fell 15% in a day. I\u2019m not too worried about your portfolio, given that the index jumped 9% on Thursday and\u2014though still 10% off its high\u2014is up 75% over the last six months. You\u2019re doing fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In early October I wrote in this newsletter that if you felt like you\u2019d missed out on easy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3995,28,101,11634,231739,11520,105,801,3471,129,1049,1139],"class_list":["post-510980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-asia","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-emerging-markets","tag-energy-supply","tag-generic-1st-cl-future","tag-imports","tag-iran","tag-japan","tag-middle-east","tag-united-kingdom","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}