Daily Archives: February 21, 2013

On Dan Golden’s Bermuda Re-Insurance Article

Dear Mr. Golden:     Thanks for the Bermuda Re-Insurance article.  Bloomberg sent me a message and I’m glad I had time to read it.     Very informative.  Are the beasts waking up?  Nice description of Bermuda 650 from … Continue reading

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Scissor, Rock And Paper

11:42 hummus: locals are scissors, customers are rocks and guess who is Paper?   Bottom fishing, short covering and violent trade.

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Fumie, Nagasaki and Swift’s “Gulliver”

A fumi-e (踏み絵 fumi “stepping-on” + e “picture”?) was a likeness of Jesus or Mary upon which the religious authorities of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan required suspected Christians to step on in order to prove that they were not … Continue reading

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