hello pezz, <<ya know I wonder where Hk and the rest of China might be today IF the evil US hadn't kicked the crap outa Japan during ww2>>
i have on good authority, in the form of diary notes, that a faction of japan tied to business interests and the emperor were wishing to negotiate peace with china circa 1943, as japan felt it can fight usa to a standstill, but not if it had to struggle in china at the same time. i will release the notes when ready, after reflection, when the time is ripe.
enough chinese believe that interfering usa saved japan.
<<yes i suppose you can speculate that the communists would've done the job anyway but we don't KNOW that do we?>>
... oh, i suspect the 2,500 years young story did not end just because the american colonists arrived on the scene for 250 years. so, let us watch and brief, even as japan begins to become aware of its dire strait. the time for genuine apology will likely be in our life time, i suspect, when the sovereign and the tribute state relationship will be re-established as meant.
on savings, keeping it simple may probably be best:
- letting surplus capital sleep as gold
- allowing excess savings rest as platinum
- high cash much of the time, except at times of absolute panic
- aggregate absolutely cheap rental real estate as one progresses within territories where ownership laws mean something
and ignore much of the paper convolutions dreamt up by goldman sachs as well as avoid all of the schema designed by ... any big guys standing? ... oh, yes, designed by jpm
frankly, we have had no more panic then a few weeks, and so whatever panics there were, they were not sincere
cheers, tj
p.s. comfortingly, gold, relative to s&p, is cheaper than dirt, leaving much cushion for being however unlikely wrong
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