We Must Not Squander This...

There is something already 'in the bag' as they say.

And there is so much to be done.

But the clear opportunity is here.

Spend on this and you blow it. Make the slightly wrong decision with some firepower under you and you've totally wasted the optimum upside.

So how to go from here?

Great herbs and spices - drink too 
much and you are gone!

Cautiously, I guess.

Yesterday there were obituaries in multiple newspapers down here about a dominant figure in the world of advertising - mostly in the Southern Hemisphere but he operated in London as well - Harold Mitchell.

One of Mitchell's best-known sayings was: 'my last cheque (check) bounces.'

That never happened because he was quite the billionaire when he died.

The point he was trying to make was to play the game to its maximum risk levels.

This is never a good idea as far as I'm concerned but then, I am not particularly driven to 'become a dead billionaire.'

The surrounding economic environment is terrible. 

The interest rate curve has faltered on Western governments giving in to the paper-thin middle class 'property market' facade, and costs are exploding upwards everywhere.

This all ends for the general market in a guaranteed social cataclysm of mammoth proportions hitherto unknown and not previously seen - regardless of the Great Depression or any other catastrophe like that.

From DJ Smash's 'Moscow Never Sleeps'
video clip. 
She chucks in her menial job...

It is not possible to meet the exorbitant national scales of debt, nor inside the economies for people to actually pay for their mortgages at the sizes they are now being contracted. Even if you import more and ever more capital all you are doing is selling your own real long-term wealth for a short-term (mis-)adventure in crass greed and silliness.

I am going to have to go into the open market and deal with people using a mask...

Fortunately, this is my own ancestral stock-in-trade.

We shall see, what we shall inevitably see. Are we in a better position today than before? It is stronger, not necessarily better.

In my head, all the possibilities start to line up so that they can be looked at and assessed: