MarketWatch: Shadow boxing the apocalypse

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PETER BRIMELOW
Shadow boxing the apocalypse
Commentary: Veteran Schultz says we're in 'major global upheaval'
By Peter Brimelow, MarketWatch



NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The eponymous octogenarian editor of the International Harry Schultz Letter may be settling down. But he's settling down in apocalypse mode.

Well over (ahem!) 30 years ago, late for an interview with Harry Schultz for the old Financial Post of Canada, I was sitting on a bollard by an Amsterdam canal, wondering why the devil the directions I had to his latest eyrie were mysteriously incomplete, when my attention was caught by a striking young woman.

She vanished through an unmarked door. On an intuition, I went over and knocked. And there behind it was the Schultz traveling circus, complete with the usual female assistants.

Schultz prides himself on trading. And in those days it applied to women, too. Or at least that was the image he chose to project, along with glamorous globetrotting and international financial savvy.

Times seem to have changed, in that respect, at least. The latest issue of the IHSL, just in, has a graphic account of Shultz's recent stay in a Swiss hospital (Get well soon, Harry!) complete with a graceful tribute to the help of his "joyful mate (for 22 years)."

Hmm. As I recall, 22 was about the average age of the girls surrounding him in Amsterdam.
Maybe Shultz is settling down in his market methods, too. He's had a great run over the past few years, basically by being right on the major trend. ......(more)

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