Dear reader it has been some time since we received our last message from the U.S, and we were beginning to wonder if Cecil had done a bunk. But no sooner had we said the words ‘J.D Salinger’, than this most recent missive arrived. We were thrilled in the editorial staff office and devoted the rest of the day entertaining ourselves with Cecil-type scenario’s. We knew that whatever the occasion, and wherever fate found him, Cecil would be hard at it, and tellingly, as always, would offer us insights both brief and succinct in word usage. And so it is with some fanfare we share this latest text with you, and our eager sub editor Mr Dodsworth Uppington-Smythe, has included a translation and summary based upon the coded information.

And now from Cecil

‘Howdy, the USA is a troubling place.  Filled with wonderful people. I’m wondering how you are?  I’ve not heard from Ira either.  Not that I’m worried (sick).  It is difficult here not to drink and eat too much.  I went to a book launch today and the title of the book was Bacon (as in the pig product).  It talked of bacon jam and bacon cookies, and much more besides. As I’ve said previously I’ll try to write some more’.

There you have it! He’s clearly on the job and tackling some of the emergent issues that make this current election so captivating. According to Smythe the bacon reference can only point to a republican think tank, and ‘wonderful people’ an oblique reference to the enhanced examples of the plastic surgeons craft, perfect teeth, and Joe Hockey. We’re quite sure that Cecil has already dined with Joe, and congratulated him for his visionary work on the 2014 budget, and closing down the rest of manufacturing in Australia. And possibly some discussion on how to further reduce the breadth of renewables, and education, and healthcare, which make the U.S such a paragon of free enterprise and liberty.

‘Cecil has already dined with Joe, and congratulated him for his visionary work on the 2014 budget, and closing down the rest of manufacturing in Australia’.

We don’t know what they had for lunch but can rest assured it probably would have been a good Clare Valley red, Tasmanian oysters, Victorian beef and some Hunter region dessert wines. Either way it’s tough work and only a few would have the stamina, to do the hard yards as Cecil has so resolutely affirmed. There’s an absence of easy access to Yuan, in the U.S so tellingly the election cycle is one long struggle.

But Cecil will persevere because he knows as the Federal Reserve does, that yuan into yuan don’t necessarily make two. And as the stock market jolts and we’re running out of wriggle room with quantative easing, that dear reader, is the point of it all.