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Wednesday, 24 August 2016

Medici's Poison

There is folklore of course, about Catherine De Medici 'commanding' the attendance of various foreign ambassadors to breakfast with her at her apartments, during which she has a unique poison fed to them, the antidote for the effects of which only she or her selected agents may administer.
Chicken Provencal and a glass of Pinot Noir

And the idea of this is that unless these 'ambassadors' do what she wants them to have done, or reveals to her what is going to satisfy her by the end of the day usually, then they will be left to die in agony.

Authorities on the relevant history and science though, say that this was all no more than a clever ruse, and that there was in reality, no such poison involved at all. It was mere suggestion.

There is a kind of a poison though, whenever a truly wealthy person 'invites' you to be one of their company at a dinner. There is the sheer attraction of having been invited in the first place - you know, to a really rich person's table!

As far as going somewhere to actually enjoy yourself, I would prefer to go to table (I believe that is the correct English expression for it, mostly used nowadays only by Russians, who are still quite educated...) with a clever host, rather than even a wise host or a particularly wealthy host. Clever, is best when it comes to eating - and to most things that involve the Epicurean impulse at heart.

Knowledgeable and clever.



Wise people might be inclined to restrain the pleasures. Merely wealthy people are boorish, unsubtle, and clumsy.

What shall we talk about?
There's far too much of this chasing after mere wealth, these days.

We need more than wealth!

We need great food. We need Chicken Provencal. And we need Burgundy wine to go with it.

Yep, it's red wine with Chicken Provencal. This you already know, I'm sure.

And we need glamorous women to go with the chicken and the wine.

All these things to entertain us and give us pleasure. Without restraint of any kind. Hot stone massages and perfumed hand towels and the keys to amazing places and amazing things.

Kalifan the Sultan of Genies will provide.


"The key, please -"

Tuesday, 23 August 2016

When Reuters Talks Rubbish I Go Eat

Those of you who have been reading here for a while know that for while, I have been putting my mouth and my typing fingers - in horse racing parlance - under 'double wraps' (means pulling myself back).

There is no way I'd be believed if I laid it all out there... If only it were just alien reptilians!

This racket of 'revealing' stuff is Assange's territory, it isn't mine.
Gee, enough said!

It isn't I'm not interested, or that I don't care enough about the future generations and all of that... Frankly, I have to tell you - and I think I've already told you before, that Anne Hamilton-Byrne and Raynor Johnson came to my father in the Sixties (who was a prominent figure 'somewhere' it's not important exactly where) and, TOGETHER WITH LEADING ACADEMICS FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY, asked for support to conduct this peculiar 'education' experiment. Of which, apparently Assange is one of the results.

My father declined and there is a 'rest of the story' that doesn't bear telling at the moment, but I will tell you that the impression of several people who knew what was going on, was that the Oxford academics were adventurous and bold, and even though NO ONE in my father's direct circle were ever going to take the risks this 'strange' crowd were about to take, the view was that they would probably achieve a certain amount of success with the children they had 'experimented,' or were about to, 'experiment' upon.

And that ain't me! I'm a kind of a gutless coward. I am NOT any kind of 'Assange' type, that's for sure.

I'll always let others take the lead on the 'too wild' stuff.

I've been struggling, I must tell you, over how to deal positively with the sheer bizarre nonsense going on hardly even 'behind the scenes' anymore - as it is.

This is me: I'd go out to a restaurant if Hitler took over Paris. Seriously, I'd be getting drunk and not planning anything! Sometimes, there is nothing that you can, logically, do, other than get drunk.
With a great Bouillabaisse you can drink rose wine

There is nothing you can do to help your fellow man - that is, all the good and decent and rather innocent people in the society round about you.

...But what I can do, maybe, is give some small items that may stand you in good stead if you ever find yourself in the company of wolves.

You see, aristocracy has for thousands of years had to protect itself. Bluntly, you may suppose that who you see out in the open public ARE the aristocrats as presented by leading glossy magazines. LOL. 

However, if you ever find yourself in an after-theatre dinner crowd, for instance, and they're all dressed very nicely, maybe a little too nicely - and one of them says something like, 'we are the players, the mummers...' What this means is a play on words; it is an ancient German word and has even earlier, Greek origins, and it means to be in disguise, or to be silent behind a mask...

I hope you understand this.

You can have your eyes wide open and still all you will see are the masks and all you will hear is a kind of silence.

Never order that Pitt and Jolie-owned French Rose wine if you are out there, with the mummers, eating Bouillabaisse somewhere. Yes it is a great wine but there are better. And if you act as if you think this is the best Rose around (because some silly publication like Forbes or someone said so) and all of this silly nonsense, it is unlikely THE MUMMERS will let you into their circle. And you want to be in their circle.

Savoir faire, yes? Rose doesn't 'travel' well by air. Buy something local. 
What does it mean? ; )

There is a lot in punning - I mentioned the other day on the Wall Street Bear Discussion Forum that the word 'macabre' comes from the Arabic 'maqabir' which means a tomb or cemetery.

How do you suppose that word got introduced into the English language?

9/11 has all the tell-tale signs of the handiwork of a serial killer who has done the kind of thing before - something truly bold, on the grand, national, even global, scale - and gotten away with it.

I'm going to dinner and there I'll be at night all night each and every night and I'll be out to lunch during the day as well from here on in. Oh I'll be posting stuff here still, and if I see anything 'incoming' I'll voice a quiet 'alert.' Nobody will believe me, I know that. I won't be raising my voice too loudly. 

Just remember, while you're making your plans for the stock markets and finance and money and everything like that, that things are never symmetrical there; it's not 'everything that goes up must come down...' It's more like you can't tell the 'down' part because it was so slow and drawn out, and you'll never get on the 'up' train because it will have taken off before you thought the engines were even getting warm.

Stanley Fischer has been running the Federal Reserve for quite a number of years now.

He is a 'mummer.'

Got it now?

When there is death and destruction all around, and Hitler has taken to looking over Paris in his staff car, the Tour D'Argent still has the odd few actors and actresses in it and as you know, top French Restaurants almost never do the 'a la francaise,' they serve 'a la russe.' But you didn't know that though did you? 'A la carte' in the sense of ordering and having things served sequentially - is not actually a French thing; it's Russian.

Mummery, you see. Mummery. Those who know, hide things from those who don't. So much for Reuters recent 'there is another Edward Snowden!' Really? I didn't know.

Yes there is another Ed Snowden - there are several thousand of them, in fact. And they are not going to be telling anyone anything WHO DOES NOT NEED TO KNOW.

Sunday, 21 August 2016

Sea Bass in a Scottish Pub

Where have I been? I've been to London, to visit the Queen.

No I haven't.

Because for one thing, the Queen is in Scotland.

She was seen (I knew but I never posted this a few weeks back when it happened) eating dinner at a Pub. She ordered Sea Bass, so I am given to understand...
'The Moon and Sixpence' - in Perth.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA!

Here's a local Pub that I eat in - it bears a striking resemblance to the one she ate dinner at. And that's probably because the gigantic global corporations that own these places around the world spend atrocious sums of money trying to make sure that all of the ones (the 'British Pubs') they own have the appearance and ambiance of an authentic British Pub.

Anyway, as we sit back together and enjoy our ale's or lagers or pilseners (German word) or Scotch's - we can reflect on this week's 'news.'

We have had it confirmed now from no less than General Michael Fynn, that Admiral Rogers is a top top man - like I have been saying to you all, all along for the last year or so...

How about that?

The other thing General Flynn confirmed which I have been also saying all along, is that the Intelligence Agencies have been giving good information and advice to the President and the Office of the President hasn't been taking it.

Gee, I must have been a fly on the wall. VV must be envious. They've killed all the other 'bugs' there too, especially the China government ones! It's only me left there I think. They'd better keep looking if they're interested. LOL. No one's interested. 'I could fucken' shoot a gun down Fifth Avenue and no one...' Et cetera... Did he say "fucken'?" I don't think Trump said "fucken'," when he made that comment.  

Sometimes I am inclined to make even more stoopid comments like 'well, it's not hard to know...' 

Well it isn't! It's not that I REALLY have any way of knowing what is said and done inside the President's Office!
Sea Bass? Maybe? I dunno...


Mostly it's not even interesting to me.

...And it shouldn't be interesting to you either!

We've got other things to think about. Mostly.

Except sometimes of course...

Boy could I tell you something right now!!

And I sure want to too. It's nothing obvious or politically explosive. It's just interesting, that's all. To do with the Federal Reserve Bank...

The trouble with Stanley Fischer is that he is getting old. Although these astral banker types do seem to have this almost endless lifespan more's the pity... I am sure he would LOVE to be in the best of health and feeling young again over the next, um, say, five years.

That way at least he could use his best lies to say he wasn't responsible - while all of us know he is a media whore at Jackson Hole!

I am sure these guys' Numero Uno thrill is in exercising their ability to use 'constructive ambiguity' - or in other words tell lies that you can believe in.

'The Hillary-Goldman-Sachs Campaign - lies you can believe in.' (Or is it better to say 'lies you can believe in AND TRUST?' Not sure which is better. Is brevity better?)

My name is Stanley Fischer, and I approve... of this message...




Monday, 15 August 2016

The Seduction - The Philosophy

I guess the most isolating, disturbing - by far the most - difficult thing for me is that there is almost no way for me to easily explain to anyone who has never been inside the kinds of circles I have been in and in a narrowly-restricted way, still am in, what the lifestyle is really like and all about.


From the photographer -
'TempleOfHope'
No dust anywhere
People who could not know any better have from time to time used the word 'frustrated' at me - and that has never even been close to my state of mind; ever.

So if I use the word 'frustrated' now I'd like you to view it as a fairly casual usage of a common enough phrase: I am rather frustrated when I see so much media and magazine and television and film depicting the so-called 'luxury lifestyle' of the 'wealthy' and none of it makes any sense to me.

In the immediate previous article I remarked on the amazing lack of any dust in scenes supposedly of luxury and wealth. Now I don't know about you but just about every steak grill I've ever been to involves quite a good deal of charring and smoke, and bits and pieces of burnt stuff floating around everywhere and falling onto anything even vaguely whitish in hue.

Personally I am very neat with cigar ash but once again it is a rare club I have ever been in where the members were attacking the brandy or the whisky and none of them ever dropped any ash... These places tend to be a bit of a hell of a mess around some moment not too long after the second glass was poured. It definitely need not be at some point 'close to midnight!'

All of these very standard images or aspects of the 'wealthy' style of life never encroach upon the emotions available there or the philosophies of those who are past masters and mistresses of the true high peaks of human living. Too regularly we see rich people depicted as materialistic or even somewhat brutish and fairly gross in the sense of not really being interested in the highest sophistications of human thinking. A billionaire can be a benefactor to an opera company of a ballet company but you will rarely or never see one play the classical piano or any orchestra instrument with convincing authority. I was once told by a professor of classical music that the difference between classical music and all other forms was in the range of its linguistics. It can say more, and it can convey far more subtle themes and meanings than all other kinds. I disagree with him but I understand the direction of his point - namely, that there is a lot of subtlety available to the musical language and which is never heard or sought by the vast majority of people on any kind of regular basis.
Plenty of black embers and smoke here!
I know you can squeeze lemon on the fat and there will be less smoke, but...

Now seduction... is simply the presenting of a range of possibilities to someone that they might not have normal access to. And then they start to consider the possibilities...The word itself is said to mean 'to lead astray' but this is an entirely wrong verdict from human psychology of what is going on. You cannot lead anyone astray or to where they didn't already have it in them to go, or to venture toward.

It's not trickery. All the 'manifesting' videos that you will ever see involve a substitution proposition: firstly these will try to encourage you to alter your perspective of the priority of value in certain things, and then when your 're-set' brain allows you to notice things that were always there but that you failed to notice previously, they say then that this is 'the Universe manifesting' those things to you. It's really you see things differently.

If I ever made a 'manifesting' video I'm afraid I'd open up outright with an entirely different proposition, namely that here we would be literally magically doing something and making the Universe do things for us that it had previously not done for us.

Now I only say 'making' here to you for your appreciating of the idea and what the results are meant to be, but in fact I mean seducing. And by seducing I don't mean to 'make' the Universe be lead astray, but instead I personally mean allow it to do what is already in it to do...
Nobody wants to know how to seduce -
they already know how

I believe the Universe is in fact a series of masked programs; we cannot see what is already in there (in here) because we have been trained to see the masks and as long as we can see only the masks everything else is filtered out from our brains or from the perceptions of our conscious minds.

People are trained almost from birth to see the masks.

Thus if Greg Kuhn the manifesting guru, asks you to treat a penny with more value while everyone else disregards them as not having virtually any value at all, and discards them, 'naturally' you will tend to 'see' more of them lying around now because your mind has been alerted to them and because indeed a comparative lot of people have discarded them.

I knew a car salesman once who used to go to the ME and pick up luxury vehicles discarded along dusty highways and 'buy' them from the governments for not much and bring them home and sell them for a profit. This is a long stretch in terms of a higher value application for Kuhn's proposition and it doesn't really mean that (some) people view Lamborghinis as having virtually no value and go around simply discarding them all the time once they first own them! And yes I know, we do live in a Universe of abundance... But really!

It's not what I mean.

I mean the Universe really doesn't give a damn about wealthy sheikhs. It doesn't care about Carlos Selim. These people do not offer the Universe anything the Universe does not already have or any possibilities which expand outward from the Universe's existing range of choice...

Ah, but we have some complex thinking here to deal with first!

And before I go into the 'making' the Universe do things part - which I'll leave to a later article - let me show you what the Universe 'wants.'

Firstly I have ascribed - or seemingly ascribed - volition and even sentience to the Universe; it has these things. A lot of human social constructs deny, and social programming denies, these facts. There is simply no evidence to support such denial. Not a shred. Conversely, the Law of Entropy is quite implicit of the fact that the Universe certainly does have volition; this is crystal clear in the 'no exception' proposition of 'principles' - and one of the principles of all of Physics is the continuity of the Law of Entropy. The Universe WILLS to disperse energy from one state to another. And it does so along EVERY available pathway and it brooks no 'supernatural' block to its action.

You cannot stop the flow of a mighty sea using an invisible, non-existent barrier or 'force.' And so I tell you, it may have been that the Red Sea was parted by the God of Moses but He did it by some scientific means that you and I are not knowledgeable about. Yet. Today, on a different primary spatial and physical scale we ourselves do exactly the same sort of thing in principle with transistors - for these block the flow of huge currents using tiny 'glass' barriers because they are arranged in a certain way for a specified phase or cycle inside the transistor. This is entirely magical.

When you look at a small transistor its relative size is a form of 'mask' to the uniformed - what they see, is not all there is there in front of their eyes. Ignorance is of course a mask, and so is smallness a kind of a mask too.

How can a human being, present to the Universe new ways for the entropy arrangements inside of it to be dispersed?

I can certainly tell you.

And there are an odd few others here and there who know too. 

I'll give you one clue now that you can hold in your mind, and without any further explanation you might be able to apply it to various situations, especially the investing ones, and that will profit you in money terms very significantly. I go by the money route because it has been my experience that almost no one is really interested in how to seduce any human being that you ever encounter - which is about the only other thing I can think of for which you can apply this understanding.

Anyway... People, the media especially, continually use the instant moment or the immediate time to 'perceive' various words that are used in economic equations and formulas: 'TODAY'S Central Bank target rate...' TODAY'S monetary policy statement had this-and-this effect on TODAY'S market...' And so on.

Certainty is applied to fixed and firm numbers, this is true. But just because we all 'want to have certainty' and there is certainty in knowing 'a number' (see the reference that I have made to desire and volition, but not what is in our natural capacity to 'handle?') doesn't mean to say 'Central Bank Interest Rates' are EVER JUST ONE SINGLE NUMBER. They cannot ever be, by Law or by the Statutory Obligations of the Central Banks themselves. And this is because they are obliged BY LAW never - NEVER - to do ANYTHING that might cause currency volatility or destabilization. Every Central Bank Policy statement is ALWAYS A SEQUENCE OF NUMBERS IN A KNOWN ORDERLY PROGRESSION. That is why the very word 'policy' is used. Nobody officially uses 'move' or 'counter move' or 'unitary reaction.'

So, the lesson here is that where most people see 'one' 'discrete' numerical 'fact,' this is really no fact at all and it should be, a whole series of numbers which may even change, or 'the curve flatten' through unforeseen future events and forces.

It is not a fact, therefore, that the Official Government Interest Rates is 'blah blah.' (Whatever you read quoted in today's Financial Times.

It is simply NOT A FACT AT ALL.

THE ACTUAL FACT IS - that you have been given (quoted) a point along a FORWARD CURVE, and the true value of that 'number series' is the summation value of it. No matter how many times Central Bank governors or the US Federal Reserve Chairman says so, no one ever listens.

And that is why - they, the people who don't listen - don't make money in the investment markets but have to lie, cheat and steal on a grand scale to pretend they are the stock market investing elite.

And I don't think I ought to say much more short of being paid a whole lot of consultancy money for this!!!

Anyway you're smart enough and you can work out the meaning of it from what I said all by yourself.

The Universe WANTS to pay you along the line of the curve, not the point quoted today or any day. It wants to. It wants to manifest to you $_____ where silly - even 'wealthy' but still silly all the same, people - are discarding that $_____ for around $_____. And there are lots of those silly people around. In fact the Universe is ABUNDANT with those silly people.

Can you work out what I am referring to specifically? ; ) 












The Seduction - The Philosophy

I guess the most isolating, disturbing - by far the most - difficult thing for me is that there is almost no way for me to easily explain to anyone who has never been inside the kinds of circles I have been in and in a narrowly-restricted way, still am in, what the lifestyle is really like and all about.


From the photographer -
'TempleOfHope'
No dust anywhere
People who could not know any better have from time to time used the word 'frustrated' at me - and that has never even been close to my state of mind; ever.

So if I use the word 'frustrated' now I'd like you to view it as a fairly casual usage of a common enough phrase: I am rather frustrated when I see so much media and magazine and television and film depicting the so-called 'luxury lifestyle' of the 'wealthy' and none of it makes any sense to me.

In the immediate previous article I remarked on the amazing lack of any dust in scenes supposedly of luxury and wealth. Now I don't know about you but just about every steak grill I've ever been to involves quite a good deal of charring and smoke, and bits and pieces of burnt stuff floating around everywhere and falling onto anything even vaguely whitish in hue.

Personally I am very neat with cigar ash but once again it is a rare club I have ever been in where the members were attacking the brandy or the whisky and none of them ever dropped any ash... These places tend to be a bit of a hell of a mess around some moment not too long after the second glass was poured. It definitely need not be at some point 'close to midnight!'

All of these very standard images or aspects of the 'wealthy' style of life never encroach upon the emotions available there or the philosophies of those who are past masters and mistresses of the true high peaks of human living. Too regularly we see rich people depicted as materialistic or even somewhat brutish and fairly gross in the sense of not really being interested in the highest sophistications of human thinking. A billionaire can be a benefactor to an opera company of a ballet company but you will rarely or never see one play the classical piano or any orchestra instrument with convincing authority. I was once told by a professor of classical music that the difference between classical music and all other forms was in the range of its linguistics. It can say more, and it can convey far more subtle themes and meanings than all other kinds. I disagree with him but I understand the direction of his point - namely, that there is a lot of subtlety available to the musical language and which is never heard or sought by the vast majority of people on any kind of regular basis.
Plenty of black embers and smoke here!
I know you can squeeze lemon on the fat and there will be less smoke, but...

Now seduction... is simply the presenting of a range of possibilities to someone that they might not have normal access to. And then they start to consider the possibilities...The word itself is said to mean 'to lead astray' but this is an entirely wrong verdict from human psychology of what is going on. You cannot lead anyone astray or to where they didn't already have it in them to go, or to venture toward.

It's not trickery. All the 'manifesting' videos that you will ever see involve a substitution proposition: firstly these will try to encourage you to alter your perspective of the priority of value in certain things, and then when your 're-set' brain allows you to notice things that were always there but that you failed to notice previously, they say then that this is 'the Universe manifesting' those things to you. It's really you see things differently.

If I ever made a 'manifesting' video I'm afraid I'd open up outright with an entirely different proposition, namely that here we would be literally magically doing something and making the Universe do things for us that it had previously not done for us.

Now I only say 'making' here to you for your appreciating of the idea and what the results are meant to be, but in fact I mean seducing. And by seducing I don't mean to 'make' the Universe be lead astray, but instead I personally mean allow it to do what is already in it to do...
Nobody wants to know how to seduce -
they already know how

I believe the Universe is in fact a series of masked programs; we cannot see what is already in there (in here) because we have been trained to see the masks and as long as we can see only the masks everything else is filtered out from our brains or from the perceptions of our conscious minds.

People are trained almost from birth to see the masks.

Thus if Greg Kuhn the manifesting guru, asks you to treat a penny with more value while everyone else disregards them as not having virtually any value at all, and discards them, 'naturally' you will tend to 'see' more of them lying around now because your mind has been alerted to them and because indeed a comparative lot of people have discarded them.

I knew a car salesman once who used to go to the ME and pick up luxury vehicles discarded along dusty highways and 'buy' them from the governments for not much and bring them home and sell them for a profit. This is a long stretch in terms of a higher value application for Kuhn's proposition and it doesn't really mean that (some) people view Lamborghinis as having virtually no value and go around simply discarding them all the time once they first own them! And yes I know, we do live in a Universe of abundance... But really!

It's not what I mean.

I mean the Universe really doesn't give a damn about wealthy sheikhs. It doesn't care about Carlos Selim. These people do not offer the Universe anything the Universe does not already have or any possibilities which expand outward from the Universe's existing range of choice...

Ah, but we have some complex thinking here to deal with first!

And before I go into the 'making' the Universe do things part - which I'll leave to a later article - let me show you want the Universe 'wants.'

Firstly I have ascribed - or seemingly ascribed - volition and even sentience to the Universe; it has these things. A lot of human social constructs deny, and social programming denies, these facts. There is simply no evidence to support such denial. Not a shred. Conversely, the Law of Entropy is quite implicit of the fact that the Universe certainly does have volition; this is crystal clear in the 'no exception' proposition of 'principles' - and one of the principles of all of Physics is the continuity of the Law of Entropy. The Universe WILLS to disperse energy from one state to another. And it does so along EVERY available pathway and it brooks no 'supernatural' block to its action.

You cannot stop the flow of a mighty sea using an invisible, non-existent barrier or 'force.' And so I tell you, it may have been that the Red Sea was parted by the God of Moses but He did it by some scientific means that you and I are not knowledgeable about. Yet. Today, on a different primary spatial and physical scale we ourselves do exactly the same sort of thing in principle with transistors - for these block the flow of huge currents using tiny 'glass' barriers because they are arranged in a certain way for a specified phase or cycle inside the transistor. This is entirely magical.

When you look at a small transistor its relative size is a form of 'mask' to the uniformed - what they see, is not all there is there in front of their eyes. Ignorance is of course a mask, and so is smallness a kind of a mask too.

How can a human being, present to the Universe new ways for the entropy arrangements inside of it to be dispersed?

I can certainly tell you.

And there are an odd few others here and there who know too. 

I'll give you one clue now that you can hold in your mind, and without any further explanation you might be able to apply it to various situations, especially the investing ones, and that will profit you in money terms very significantly. I go by the money route because it has been my experience that almost no one is really interested in how to seduce any human being that you ever encounter - which is about the only other thing I can think of for which you can apply this understanding.

Anyway... People, the media especially, continually use the instant moment or the immediate time to 'perceive' various words that are used in economic equations and formulas: 'TODAY'S Central Bank target rate...' TODAY'S monetary policy statement had this-and-this effect on TODAY'S market...' And so on.

Certainty is applied to fixed and firm numbers, this is true. But just because we all 'want to have certainty' and there is certainty in knowing 'a number' (see the reference that I have made to desire and volition, but not what is in our natural capacity to 'handle?') doesn't mean to say 'Central Bank Interest Rates' are EVER JUST ONE SINGLE NUMBER. They cannot ever be, by Law or by the Statutory Obligations of the Central Banks themselves. And this is because they are obliged BY LAW never - NEVER - to do ANYTHING that might cause currency volatility or destabilization. Every Central Bank Policy statement is ALWAYS A SEQUENCE OF NUMBERS IN A KNOWN ORDERLY PROGRESSION. That is why the very word 'policy' is used. Nobody officially uses 'move' or 'counter move' or 'unitary reaction.'

So, the lesson here is that where most people see 'one' 'discrete' numerical 'fact,' this is really no fact at all and it should be, a whole series of numbers which may even change, or 'the curve flatten' through unforeseen future events and forces.

It is not a fact, therefore, that the Official Government Interest Rates is 'blah blah.' (Whatever you read quoted in today's Financial Times.)

It is simply NOT A FACT AT ALL.

THE ACTUAL FACT IS - that you have been given (quoted) a point along a FORWARD CURVE, and the true value of that 'number series' is the summation value of it. No matter how many times Central Bank governors or the US Federal Reserve Chairman says so, no one ever listens.

And that is why - they, the people who don't listen - don't make money in the investment markets but have to lie, cheat and steal on a grand scale to pretend they are the stock market investing elite.

And I don't think I ought to say much more short of being paid a whole lot of consultancy money for this!!!

Anyway you're smart enough and you can work out the meaning of it from what I said all by yourself.

The Universe WANTS to pay you along the line of the curve, not the point quoted today or any day. It wants to. It wants to manifest to you $_____ where silly - even 'wealthy' but still silly all the same, people - are discarding that $_____ for around $_____. And there are lots of those silly people around. In fact the Universe is ABUNDANT with those silly people.

Can you work out what I am referring to specifically? ; )