Change Is Coming

General Stanley McChrystal has a new book out 'One Mission - How Leaders Build a Team of Teams.'

Those of you who read here regularly will have gathered some impression by now that there is more than just me here, 'behind the scenes' at any rate.

And you may have noticed a moment just after the election of President Trump where I suggested 'the word was out to keep one's mouth shut' - if you were one of the 'friendly parties.'

This is Thompson Silk Co's 'historical archives' area

I am a friendly party and so - as much as it personally pains me so to do - I STILL have to remain sitting on some pretty warm kettles here, let me tell you.

But you can see already that the quietness of the front-lines, so to speak, has begun to reveal the leakers - the info coming out is clearly ONLY from antipathetic sources and it becomes in fact easy to track down because it consists only of small fragments of what people genuinely FULLY on the inside would tend to know, and those fragments can easily be traced to who were selectively given them, either on a need-to-know basis, or as a trap.

Now this doesn't mean there is actually nothing going on, OTHER than what was leaked, because in fact an awful lot is going on.

But I'm afraid that 'awful lot' is going to be remaining very much unseen by the public at least until at least after Mueller steps out of his own shadows or is dismissed.

No feed thrown out to the chickens, and they all start to starve and begin a lot of squawking...

More silk, any colors...

I don't know whether this Blog here comes across as just a tease to you - I have been accused of that many times in my daily RL business life by people who assume they know me. I don't write the Blog to give hints or indications of trends of market prices - I can't say I can prognosticate with particularly any greater reliability than anyone else. So it would comes across as a huge tease if you expect direct investing 'tips.' This Blog is meant to be like a slow drip of a type of colored water, which, after a good long while will affect your mind after it has been allowed to fall on your head...!

...Well if you let it, anyway.

You see - and I'm sure you know this already, but I'll underscore it - it's the filter you look at things through, which determines what you think you are seeing. There is no possibility, in my estimation, that people who are not trained to observed things in a specific way, will comprehend what is going on right now in the economy and in markets.

When change comes it comes right under people's noses and they don't really see it with a conscious mentality.

And some things of course, are simply 'unthinkable.'

But they are going to happen anyway.

And you know it deep inside, and now I have confirmed it for you. 

When a person makes an investment decision -  and I mean when what they expect and intend is a big serious decision with large potential positive consequences - they do it alone (at least if they are the top of the line kind of investor) and they will want ALL the benefits to come to them and not have to be shared out to some sort of 'committee of decision-makers' any one of whom might claim having been 'most crucial' to the actual decision having been made.

McChristal's book deals with how you can make these kinds of decisions in today's world... ...as the result of having been given two rights, one the right to push back against hide-bound bureaucracy, and two - access to the best information at the fastest speed.

All of these specious 'probes' into collusion and obstruction and anything anti-Trump Team, detract from the ability of people to get key information out quickly - if that information is meant to be privileged to the intended recipients.

And that is fundamentally because people like myself are (surreptitiously) monitored by digital filters, as well as occasionally by live human 'over-watching' too. And that's okay with me; I don't mind.

So let me just say this much right now - there are three people who used the word 'change' in this last week: Kellyanne Conway, General McCrystal. And myself.

And all of us meant to use that word.

My estimation is that if you have been reading here for a while, and continue to look in, sooner or later lights will go on, not about what you read or see here, but to do with outside things, market things, even geopolitical things, and you won't even recognize consciously that your outlook has changed. It's all to do with being able to feel the texture, understand the fibers, appreciating the shades of color.