The Harsh Couch - 2016.10.18 The Misanthropic Division

#1

Where we would wish to reform we must not reproach. - Thomas Paine

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at http://theharshcouch.com/thc/2016-10-18/
#2

On the late King of Thailand, this is a good read: https://www.amazon.com/King-Never-Smiles-Biography-Thailands/dp/0300106823/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1476834188&sr=8-1&keywords=the+king+never+smiles

#3

think you guys might be missing a crucial piece of the Crown/Packer/Chinese puzzle:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-16/billionaire-packer-said-in-talks-to-take-crown-assets-private

if you’re moving to BUY OUT your public company’s casino assets with private money, cutting COSTS (of which your Macau operations are a large part) in the process, having something like these arrests drive down the share price significantly is not such a bad thing…

#4

I respectfully disagree with the Colonel. If you want the doona all to yourself, you don’t shit in your own sheets to make everyone else get out of the bed.

#5

to be clear, I’m not suggesting Packer orchestrated any of this - just that the idea that it is all going to be such a terrible setback to his plans, as some have suggested, is… perhaps a little naïve