An Astonishing Money Story...

I suppose those of you who have been reading for a long time now, will still know pretty scant details of what I was doing um, twenty and more years ago.

Well, in order to raise the shutters a little to allow some insight, I'm going to go by way of some old 'stories' - which are all completely true by the way, which doesn't mean the militantly skeptical are going to credit them, necessarily.

Just a suspicious-looking guy!

Anyway... ...once upon a time, my sister worked for Australasia/Pacific's biggest licensed bookmaker (you know, guy who gives odds on gambling propositions and takes your money and gives you more money if what you predicted turns out correctly called). That gentleman's name was Rod Evans, and he was the individual who 'carried' all of the money for the most senior Australian government officials and politicians. Robert J. Hawke, Australia's most electorally-successful Labor Party leader and at one point longest-serving Prime Minister - was a close friend of Rod Evans. And so was the most feared Labor politician at the time, the Premier of New South Wales, Neville Wran.

It was my own personal car, that was used I guess 'covertly' to transport Neville Wran around when he came across to visit various of his friends in the West, including Rod Evans. Evans was part of the so-called 'Curtin Circle' which gathered in private in a secret room in the back of a strange set of buildings in East Perth, principally 'Chopstix Chinese Restaurant' and the Independent Order of Oddfellows' office. And so many a time I ushered a few identities into there and saw seated around the boardroom table, Rod, the Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, Wran, some race horse trainers, prominent bankers and lawyers and others.

My business partner, Bill Cocks and myself were on more than one occasion, doing that type of accidental 'thing' in that kind of place 'accidentally' but actually it was because 'they' trusted us; they implicitly trusted Bill and I was a young acolyte - that they also trusted. And they could trust me and I lived up to that trust. I was many times asked by various 'Royal Commissions' to voluntarily give evidence and never did and neither did I ever put myself in the position where authorities decided they had to compel me to give evidence.

Most of the people I met there in such places are all deceased now. Hawke died earlier this year, in May.

Anywa-a-a-a-ay... Most people today are not aware that one of the amazing successes of Neville Wran's life was that he was part of the most successful race horse gambling syndicate of all time - the Legal Eagles -, comprised of young lawyers, all of whom went onto serious and highly successful careers in the law, or diplomacy or corporate business touching on law matters.

Now... ...that having been said, yet nevertheless the most successful professional gambler I know or have ever met - is me.

I learned from the leader of the original Legal Eagles, and from others of their group, but I have maintained the 'life' and to some extent the lifestyle also, where they all retired and did other things as the mechanics of gaming changed over the years: odds quoted are now based on different algorithms compared to what bookmakers were wont to use, technology has altered a few structural factors, and well, people and society is a touch different too.

And it isn't that they didn't or couldn't keep up with the times, and that I did, but that they didn't keep up with social changes going on... Because the main lessons used by the original syndicate for undertaking professional risk all still apply and possibly they apply all the more so now than they ever did in the past.

The 'modern' economy depicted... ...same dog, different leg-action, as
my one-time boss in the Chicago Merchant Bank used to say.

Over the past, oh god, even thirty years, I have never felt things in the economy occasioned an approach to priced money markets (of any kind) that you could view altogether seriously.

The thing that kids and the inexperienced, the unsuspecting even unsuspecting self-presuming commercial institutions and banks and the like, never realize is that operations like the Legal Eagles when they make a threat in earnest it is a threat in deadly earnest; they are making a 'deadly' threat to the nature of and the underlying assumptions of your business (that is to say, of the bankers' and rival operators' businesses). They will cause you to close up. Or so radically have to change what you are doing that the effect is the same.

Now.

At any one time, I would have avenues of direct personal contact with all, of the big gamblers in South East Asia, and in Australasia and in that mix sit also groups who are based in the Middle East and who are Arabic.

And there has never been a moment until recently, at which I would say anything in 'deadly serious' - to any of these people.

So now I have spoken to some of these and I am moving forward on a specific plan.

As you can see, RR stole the color scheme:
'Mandarin Duck' and Admiralty Blue. ...Which is the factory
promoted scheme for the RR Dawn, a fine car, don't worry about that!
Everything old is new again. There is nothing new under the sun.
Stuff that worked before once, can still work now too.
Got the point...?

For those of you who are militantly skeptical of anything and everything and even when Santa Claus drops fifty bucks on your own floor in front of the fireplace you question what picking it up entails - then you can put it down to the fact that I do have some authentic documented expertise in tax avoidance and money laundering (although I would dispute that it can really be termed that). However, the truth is, why people such as the Legal Eagles are successful is that they observe some massive flaw in a system, a flaw at the same time both easy to exploit but then so complex to know and understand in the first place (unless you did know it), that you are afforded a good long go at making money from it before others realize what is going on and then change all the rules and re-restructure the system to close the um 'loophole.'

I mean things are not designed or meant for you and I to make money!

Except the apex thinkers regularly 'break the bank.'

Now if you choose to stay around these pages from here on in, you are part of the apex thinkers and the apex predators also, in a sense.

I'm not hitching my wagon here to any named brand like say the Fuze Smart Card, but this is the kind of thing which will be part of the future. And it is definitely something that is on my radar. These things have far greater capacity than simply carry every credit card/cash card/bank card facility along with your bio-metrics and all of that jazz - they are intelligent cards...

They can do intelligent things. 

First though, we have ta find us some-a intelligent people who can intelligent-ize some good things fer us. Know any o' them kinda folk? LOL