December 2019. They say a year has passed. A decade has passed and a new decade lies ahead. The longest bull market run in history. How do you make sense of this ? With an interview, in the same format we pioneered in 2016, 2017, 2018 (twice) and last August. The interviewer name is of course, Mr. Savage, and his credentials include PM at a large credit fund.

Mr. Savage: Max Cantor. So glad to be with you. What’s up ? What can you say about the end of the last decade and the start of what decade? What’s coming right at us ?

Max Cantor: What’s coming right at you is everything you didn’t expect and everything that has happened before. Ok, since we’re addressing the readers of this blog, we’re addressing the top 1%, so our readers are the best prepared in the world. Our readers don’t take shit for glitter. They don’t fall for the common traps.

Mr. S: Everything that has happened before ? Can you elaborate ?

MC: Decade, schmuckade, what was before will be again. Some players will change, fools will lose their heads. One thing you learn after awhile is that people don’t change. New decade ? It’s bullshit. People will go on running their little rackets.

Mr. S: But we live in a more combative and corossive society than we did 10 years ago, even 5 years ago. Wouldn’t you agree ?

MC: I’ve been writing this blog for 7 years. It’s a pimp or be pimped world out there, as I said numerous times. 340 times to be correct.

Mr. S: Well, what has changed in those past few years ? Something has changed…your readers want your input.

MC: Well, we have the worshiping of women in the workplace, in the society we got the Universal Religion of Womanhood if you wanna call it that. But we all know women are pimping men left and right. They’re no more apt or equipped to deal with reality than men are, but they make the case that they are. I’ve got lots of haters on the account of telling the truth, including a senator, prominent lawyers and others. I’m fighting an uphill battle against censorship.

Mr. S: I didn’t realize it was like that.

MC: Whatever you think it is, it’s worse. Women are becoming more masculine and are cutting men out. So that’s one major development of the last decade. On the family development level, predictably we are seeing the rates of marriage dropping -Thank God for that ! They should be down to less than half of what they are now.

Mr. S: Why is that ?

MC: Marriage is a con-game run for the benefit of women. I wrote a short on Medium about that. You should read it. Marriage in 2019 is not what marriage was in 1999, 2009 or even after. But look, this bullshit is been known for some time. Romance is a scam perpetrated by this generation of spoiled brats. Dating is whitewashed whoring.

Mr. S: Max, if it is how you’re telling us, glad I don’t have to do it (I’m married).

MC: I know you are. Women are incredible abusers of men, but yours seems to be holding.

Mr. S. (Knocks on wood) What else, Max ? What do we need to know about the decade ending ?

MC: Read my articles, S. I mean read them thoroughly. Forget the “decade” -there is no decade. It’s just you. Look at yourself in the mirror. Are you the same that you were one year ago ? 5 years ago ? 10 years ago ? If you’re the same man with the same habits and patterns, you have a problem my friend. If you haven’t evolved during the course of a single year -forget the decade bullshit – you’re in bad shape. People will keep throwing their eggs and pebbles at you -they always do. The weak and meek gets stomped on. That will never change. Not in a decade or thousand years. You’re in the fight for your life.

Mr. S: I guess I am. Nobody has made me aware like that before. WTF. And what’s next on your side of the cubicle ?

MC: S, take it easy. We have something big in store for 2020, but I have to still my breath and keep it secret. For now.

Mr. S: Thank you, Max.

Mr. Savage: Max I am thrilled to have you here, even it’s just for 10 minutes.

Max: And I am thrilled to be here with you, even if it’s just for 10 minutes. As I like to say, if you don’t know what you’re doing in 10 minutes, 10 hours won’t get you there. So go ahead.

Mr. Savage: You’re going to double publish it on Medium, you said. Isn’t that a public relations risk ? After all, you’re not exactly mainstream.

Max: No, I am not. But I have to let the larger public know what I’m about.

Mr. Savage: The value proposition of you writing this personal blog goes beyond anything I’ve seen. And I’ve seen a lot.

Max: I am one of the most controversial bloggers in the world, and I have fans beyond the finance industry. In fact, some of my biggest fans are from outside this industry. I’ve opened a lot of doors for people who’s improved their lives with the tips and “School of Hard Knocks” I’ve kept running for 7 years.

Mr. Savage: Right. One of the latest thing we’ve seen is your fascination with the Game of Thrones. That series ended earlier this year.

Max: I am a late fan of the show, and I had to watch it all. You see different types of leaders throughout the show, and they all have something to teach. For example, the saying the “Night is Dark and Full of Darkness” could be the World is Worse and Full of Scumbags.” I wrote an amazing book last year. And you know what ? Your *leaders* and *fat cows* kept it under wraps. So I say: If anyone working here has it, you’d better not tell your co-workers and supervisors. There’s a tremendous amount of ill-will toward those who are getting up the career ladder. The elites have embraced virtue-signalling and the kakistocracy is full-swing. It is now the hardest it’s even been to be promoted from low-level or mid-level to upper-level employee. True in almost ANY industry or occupation. The most typical letter I get from readers starts with: “I’ve been here for so many years and haven’t been promoted once…” The managers refuse to promote the hard-workers. I’ve tried to give you some tools in that book.

Mr. Savage: The Book of the Underdog, yes. Are you saying the managers and C-suite keep a “blind spot” to the achievers that should otherwise get promoted ?

Max: Totally. It’s a willful blind spot. You’re not part of their “tribe”, a term I’ve used in the book.

Mr. Savage: And you told us how to deal with it. Word by word.

Max: Managers stage conflict all the times. Remember, they want to see you -the underlings- fight each other and lose. They will beat the dead horse (an unreasonable issue) so the messenger falls with it.

Mr. Savage: Ok, Max. What is the next direction for your blog ?

Max: You’ve seen we got a “Free Resources for the Free Minds” where the suggestions come from readers. Readers like you. Courses, classes, white papers, suggestions, it’s a lot in there. Since I moved the blog, readership has decreased. By a lot. Like 97%. We’re not interested in paupers and jumping jacks “trolls”, but in committed and serious readers. Readers who have a mission and purpose aligned with mine. Strap on your belts, this is going to be a rough road.

Mr. Savage: Any other messages for your readers ?

Max: You need to cull and curate your reading. Cut back or completely cut your social media consumption. Social media (especially Twitter) has become a cancer. Delete your social media apps from your phone. Spend time reading books, not social media feeds which are garbage.

Mr. Savage: Which books go well, or let me say it, which 3 books go best with reading the Book of The Underdog ?

Max: Good question. I would pair the Book of the Underdog with The Magician’s Way: What It Really Takes to Find Your Treasure by W. Whitecloud and with David Goggin’s Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds. The former is not so well -known and is fiction while the latter is a 2018 best-seller readers might already have. But there are dozens more that go well with mine.

Mr. Savage: Thanks, Max.

Note: Mr. Savage insisted he needed to watch a movie.

There

Interviewer: Max, thanks for taking the time to do this.

Max: You’re welcome.

I: As a first question, which maybe just came to my mind, if we associate you with any Star Wars character, which one would you be ?

M: Master Yoda, which has been sort of forgotten lately. Yoda is the greatest Jedi, yet I’ve never seen anybody giving him as much as a kiss, not a medal, not anything. Good guys finish last.

I: I see what you mean. Is Yoda perhaps working in the background ? Last, but not least ?

M: I’m sure Yoda is cooking up something. He is a dealmaker. He knows how to tip the balance.

I: You mean, like a Goldmanite ? Working for Goldman Sachs ?

M: No man, I didn’t mean it as an insult. (No pun intended. Goldman is a terrific bank). You need to know that I, like Donald Trump, can say anything I want, even if it’s stupid. I meant seeing the market. Selling gold with the strengthening dollar and stuff. If Yoda was in bonds he’d be rowing hard and fast now but still manage to keep afloat.

I: Ok. Let’s get back to cooking. I wanted to know what the Great Max eats. What is your diet ? Your daily routine like ? Exercise ? What kind of women do you date ?

M: On the diet thing, mine is closest to the Paleo. Except I am the real paleo. I eat raw meat. I also eat a lot of nuts, of course vegetables, fruit. I divest from the Paleo line though because I still drink milk.

I: You eat raw meat ? Don’t you get sick from it ?

M: No. I’ve been eating raw meat for over 15 years. For people reading this who don’t eat raw, and that means 100% of you, raw meat also has a distinct taste than cooked. It’s different. It’s a different taste buds pleasure. I also eat meat cooked.

I: Wow. How do you ever not rise and fly out the window at night ?! Do you drink, or should I say, ever drunk human blood ?

M : No, I don’t like the taste of human blood. I’m not a vampire. I’m like a shark, I spit out human blood. Too salty. I also don’t drink ocean saltwater. On the other hand, bllod oozing from a fresh cut of kobe beef it’s tasty.

I: What about the bones ?

M: I chew on them. When there’s nothing I can chew, I give them to my dog.

I: In a bloodbath.

M: You bet.

I: Do you like your women raw, too ?

M: What do you mean by that ?

I: I don’t know, Max. You’re full of surprises. What kind of girlfriends do you have ?

M: I have a rule. I call it LBN: Look-Better-Naked. If they can pass that, they’re in. Girls, however, have to constantly prove themselves to me, not take me for granted. They have to earn their stripes. If they fall out of line, I cut them short. I have a two-strikes rule: they fail me twice, they’re done.

I: So what kind of girls do you like ?

M: I’ll tell what I don’t like, I don’t like flakes.

I: Excellent. Very enlightening. Max, let me switch here and ask you, what do you think of Donald Trump ?

M: It is not my place and time here to say anything about him. Besides, I think it’s unfair that I should spend my time thinking about him if he doesn’t spend any time thinking about me.

I: So what you’re saying is that you are not going to interview for a government post to the Trump Tower any time soon, Are you keeping us in suspense ?

M: What I’m saying is: I’m not paying for nobody’s dinner. If somebody wants me to travel to their office to meet me, they have to prepay me my travel expenses plus accommodations. That’s how I roll. You know me. I’ve done multi-million deals. I don’t care who the f**k you are. This is my time, my money. If you want a circus, toomfoolery, look, I don’t fool around. 

I: Max Cantor, everybody !