Old Money Savoir Faire
Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Something You Can Believe In
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I played a casino once using a thing called The Reverse Labouchere. Basically, you bet both sides of an even odds-paying roll or spin or thr...
Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Modern Stockbrokers versus Olden Days Ones
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Are you a modern stockbroker? You don't know anything about stockbroking! I met J. Paul Getty on the steps outside the front of Raffles...
Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Gold! Gold!
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Present-day trust issues over money... Back in the Eighties I knew as a reasonably familiar personal acquiantance, Australia's now most...
Friday, 2 September 2011
Drinking wine, entertaining women, and rescuing old buildings
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Okay I don't remember who said that. But it was some important person. Or it should have been. Old buildings are important in ways that...
Saturday, 20 August 2011
WINE, FITNESS, AND FUR
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The Singular Problem of the Very Wealthy I know 'wealthy' people. Or 'said to be wealthy' people. Some have very grand numb...
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