Briefly Speaking

日期:2015/03/31 

The demise of Capt. Cook, Hawaii, Feb 14 1779

1. The book Captain Cook by Vanessa Collingridge tells the story of the rise and cannibalization of the greatest explorer in English history, and the discovery of Australia, and the attempt by a nobleman illustrator to take away his renown by showing that a Portuguese actually discovered Australia, and is a great travelogue of an intrepid modern day explorer geographer in Vanessa Collingridge, a cousin, and contains much material of salience for Aubrey lovers, e.g. Joseph Banks the naturalist rode with Cook and had a Maturinesque relation with Cook similar to Maturin's with Aubrey. But for me the highlite of the book was the story of 10 disparate random things, terrible coincidences that led to Cook's death at the hand of the Maori's in Hawaii. First, Cook had to create hostility with random killings by his rebellious officers on the previous visit, then he had to be turned back by icebergs when he left trying to find a northern route bak home, then he had to choose to go bak to the Maoris, then a Maori chief had to steal the tiller and carpenter's tools, then they had to have a miscommunication as they decided to blockade the harbor but Cook went out alone to catch the culprit, then the chief was ready to come aboard as a hostage, but at the last minute the wife intervened to beg him to stay, then one of his officers on the other side of the island had to kill a native, then the marines and Cook failed to watch their back not believing that a deity like Cook could be in danger. All had to happen for the fatal clubbing behind his back to kill Cook. It's like what happens with a bad trade that is not properly thought out that leads to disaster. Brett Steenbarger is rite that a few minutes of delay and thought before pulling the plug can save the Kingdom.



2. The round numbers are becoming particularly attractive all over.

3. The more I study chemistry, the more convinced I am that all the quantum and whole number states and jumps between wavelengths as in climbing up a ladder and angles between the atoms of the molecules have direct and useful implications in our field.

4. LoBagola is living in many markets with moves up and down the ladder occurring with inordinate frequency.

5. The Japanese baseball is a perfect model for how all traders should be prepared in our field, and it would be useful for all to see a Tokyo Giants game. An added bonus is that there are beautiful songs for each player.

6. The books about Rothschild show that he played the same role in financing the railroads at the start of the Industrial Revolution in Europe that the venture capital firms in Silicon Valley play today.

7 The best sushi restaurant in the world is in Awaji Island (outdoor scene restaurant the food ),the shellfish capital of the world. The beauty of eating non-frozen sushi just off the boats, and having abalone in abundance rite out of the shells is unrivaled.The price of a comparable meal in NY at Masa or Nobu would be 10 times as high, and 1/2 as good.

8. I know of many kids of Commodity Traders who are as independent as their fathers and often turn that independence into rebellion

9. Crude oil goes up and down with Mideast hostilities but like all commodity markets ultimately moves as Sushil points out to telescope future supply at lower prices and moves to balance today what future prices will transpire when the supply at current prices is reduced. In other words, the cobweb theorem still holds and trumps Russian and Yemeni and Saudi moves.

10. The elderly agrarian at the Fed seems intent on bulling up the economy when it will help our agrarian counterparts in the legislative branch.