Murrinations

Many readers have often joked that Breaking the Code of History (BTCH) and my blogs are pessimistic, and thus that I must be a pessimist! However, I have always answered that I am an optimist by nature; which always elicits a good laugh! I then explain that BTCH was structured as a self-help book for mankind, and the first stage was to understand and highlight both our positive and destructive patterns. The second stage emphasised the impending big challenges that we face in the decades ahead and how we might surmount them.

WISHING YOU A MAGNIFICENT 2017 AND MAY YOUR ASPIRATIONS BECOME REALITY!

DAVID

David has been engaged in African agriculture since he co-founded Emvest back in 2007. On Monday 5 December, David spoke on the opening panel of the Global AgInvesting Conference in London, and following that on Resonance Radio. The recording of the program is given below. https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-naked-short-club-5th-december-2016/

The following is a session write-up at the conference SuperInvestor, Amsterdam (17 November 2016) by the SuperReturn team.

David Murrin needed little introduction as Thursday morning’s keynote speaker. According to the Chairman of the morning, he is the “Indiana Jones of the financial industry.”

David’s book, Breaking the Code of History, is a culmination of five years of intensive research, combined with the knowledge absorbed from a 25-year banking and investment career.

To the British electorate who voted to remain in the EU, the immediate knee-jerk reaction to Brexit in the form of a drop in the sterling confirmed their worst fears. Yet, sterling’s 15% repricing did not herald a disaster, but rather a boost to the UK’s economy via making exports more competitive.

Using the observation that under the "Make America great again" program, values will regress back up the empire cycle curve, it is easier to understand the context of Trump’s views on abortion and gay marriage. Forgetting the libertarian perspective and taking it right back to the dynamics of the human system, it emulates catholic policies which were designed to maximise population growth, which is consistent with demographic expansion and to increase the economic muscle in the future.

Obama's policies were derived from the extreme position side of the wealth and power distribution political camp, whilst Trump's views originate from the diametrically opposite position of wealth and power creation. Thus, Trump has to reverse the majority of Obama's key policies  to begin to  remedying the situation, with the exception of the Pivot to Asia which was the right call. However, simply reversing the previous administration's policies will not be enough to change America's trajectory.

One of the core conclusions in Breaking the Code of History is that America, as the last empire of the Super  Western Christian Empires entered the last of the Five Stages of Empire in 2001. That last stage is decline, which started with 9/11 and has been building momentum over the past 15 years.

For those that fear a Trump presidency from an emotional perspective, is it as bad as it feels?

In early 1942, the German battleship Scharnhorst and heavy battlecruiser Gneisenau made a daylight dash up the English Channel, from occupied France to the relative safety of Germany. Despite the best efforts of the RAF and Royal Navy, the two warships, with the help of the Luftwaffe, made it safely to Germany. The Royal Navy's failure to interdict this force, so close to its shores was a major blow.