Mercedes Musk Lollies

“Don’t dial up the Mercedes S-Class FunfKommaSecks’ aromatherapy to ‘musk stick lollies,’ please Köbie!”

That’s my 8 year old level three Autistic kid’s name...

He’s named after an ancestor of mine – someone from Scotland. ‘Köbie’ is the Swiss contraction of the name in honour of the golden days of secret Swiss bank accounts.

New S-Class, has mood lighting and aromatherapy.
The 'Guard' version just been leased by the Oz government for
the G20 meeting featuring Uncle Vanya

Anyway look there are no ‘musk stick lolly’ options on the factory original aromatherapy electronics in the latest Mercedes S-Class but I assure you that would never stop a driven Autistic kid.

It’s quite fascinating don’t you find, especially those of us here who are engaged in any kind of business – when you are going into some deal or other, there is this whole seriousness and gravity and intent and cautiousness; and then afterwards if it is very successful there is a total diametric change towards levity and even outright silliness.

All the same, some deals require strict confidentiality a long ways past even when they have been formally concluded. And that is the position I find myself in at present.

Oh yes I have done something pretty good – or ba-a-a-a-d, if you want to be colloquial about it. And maybe ‘bad’ is the correct accurate description anyway.

Seriously, isn't this beautiful?
...And rare.

There are so few really exciting ventures going on in today’s world of business – Alibaba is plain stupid and relies on a business model that everyone is chasing concerning extending social media networks and pretending they are all necessarily going to turn into money some day.

I pointed out here a while back that even the world’s leading private investment fund returned 12-ish percent last year on several billions. Well 12 per cent is not interesting to me! 500 per cent might be and even then it’s going to have to be to do with something that I am fundamentally interested in.

In a world in which the Fed has manipulated the evolved, the tried and true benchmarks of risk, 12 per cent against the government risk free rate is sick. It is dangerous to indulge in these specious ‘good’ return numbers when everyone of experience in risk assessment knows that risk benchmarking has been mischievously tampered with by an authority which accounts to no one for its errors, mistakes, and sheer selfish dissembling.



Up the top of that tall building again...
Money never sleeps, Bud. But you have
to have a good idea otherwise it does sleep!

In such a world, people who really have some business model that is truly profitable and exciting and safe, have to be concerned with great earnestness, about not allowing too many copycats into the picture.

Alibaba - and the Forty Thieves... Al-adin they already shot in some compound in Pakistan. Take me to the story teller, not to the story. To the fable-maker, not the fable.