Blue Crush is now Mutant Ideas

After four years of good fun, this blog needed a good twist. Thank you for being with me on this journey.

You will find the blog at Mutant Ideas (www.mutantideas.com)

See you there.

Thank you,

:) FALKOR

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Kenny Rogers | The Gambler lyrics

On a warm summers evenin on a train bound for nowhere,
I met up with the gambler; we were both too tired to sleep.
So we took turns a starin out the window at the darkness
til boredom overtook us, and he began to speak.

He said, son, Ive made a life out of readin peoples faces,
And knowin what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.
So if you dont mind my sayin, I can see youre out of aces.
For a taste of your whiskey Ill give you some advice.

So I handed him my bottle and he drank down my last swallow.
Then he bummed a cigarette and asked me for a light.
And the night got deathly quiet, and his face lost all expression.
Said, if youre gonna play the game, boy, ya gotta learn to play it right.

You got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when youre sittin at the table.
Therell be time enough for countin when the dealins done.

Now evry gambler knows that the secret to survivin
Is knowin what to throw away and knowing what to keep.
cause evry hands a winner and evry hands a loser,
And the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep.

So when hed finished speakin, he turned back towards the window,
Crushed out his cigarette and faded off to sleep.
And somewhere in the darkness the gambler, he broke even.
But in his final words I found an ace that I could keep.

You got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when youre sittin at the table.
Therell be time enough for countin when the dealins done.

You got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count you r money when youre sittin at the table.
Therell be time enough for countin when the dealins done.

Kenny Rogers | The Gambler lyrics

Swiss bank disclosure: killing the hydra?

A major tectonic shift in money flow and black market economies

A simple statement, a confession, made under immense duress to survive: but what an impact it will have on the banking systems world over and huge, more-than-you-can-imagine impact on the financial markets and criminal behavior. UBS under tremendous pressure to survive the life draining losses of last year has agreed to (or close to agreeing, depending on which news article you read) to reveal the account detials of its secretive holders. The problem for these biggie holders is that they have to now:

• Holders will have to churn their portfolio i.e. take the money away and stash it somewhere else
• Invest or hide the money in different (and hidable) formats. [Gold bugs have known something for a long time now hmmm]
• Is the money going to other safe havens OR would other safe havens also open up (or forced to open up) after Swiss disclosure
• This has undoubtedly triggered a wave of new scams that will brew over next years or may be decades
• What happens to the black-economy, where will the center of gravity of black market economy shift to?
• Where will the money flow to? Real estates? Commodities?
• Corrupt politicians will have no incentive to make the system transparent, or even be tensed at this revelation
• Will money shift to Agriculture or environmental projects, where it is difficult to track the investments?

Figments of imagination? Yes but not far fetched.

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