Breaking The Code To The Catcher In The Rye: The Secret Goldfish

[Cosmic]

There are quite a lot of fish mentioned or referenced to by The Catcher In The Rye.
My Secret Goldfish

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This is the name of a book of short stories that Holden's brother wrote. It is about a little kid that bought a gold-fish and wouldn't let anyone look at it because he bought it with his own money.

When I think of the word "short" in relation to the stock market ....well I naturally think about people making money when the market is falling. I think about people being laid off and a recession or depression setting in. I think about how it is hard for people to make ends meet because what was worth "x" when bought isn't selling today.

Or worse yet maybe the kid knew or create a falling market and made a bundle off of the demise of others knowingly.

Has this ever happened here?

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=t...



This book "The Secret Goldfish" would be a great title of a book on the parody on financial advice books.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/mobile/...

Also something interesting is how the insurance companies played a part in their demise...from the article above.

How did Germany's economy lead up to WW2?

http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/m...

"Eventually the municipal finance collapsed in 1930. Although it seemed as if the collapse was due to debt, in actuality ordinary budgets were the reason for the initial collapse. Municipal officials and politicians were unable to restore order to the budgets. Further adding to Germany's economic problems, the revenue from income tax began to fall. In 1913, over fifty three percent of all tax revenues was from income, but in 1925, it dropped down to 28%. As the returns on income taxes decreased, the government began to depend much more on state trade and property tax. The government also became highly dependent on the profits made from municipal utilities, such as electric power plants.

" Even with all of Germany's economic shortcomings, it could have still been possible to make reparation payments if foreign countries had not placed protective tariffs on Germany's goods. With the income Germany could have gained by selling goods in foreign countries, for relatively low prices, reparation payments could have become feasible. The protective tariffs made this idea impossible and further depressed the German economy. Faced with reparation payments they could not afford, Germany began printing exaggerated amounts of money. This threw Germany into a state of super inflation. Inflation reached the point where millions of marks were worthless. Cartoons of the time depicted people with wheelbarrows full of money who could not buy a loaf of bread. "With the approach of world crisis foreign lenders withdrew capital and markets further closed against German imports" (Sweezy 8). The United States was an extremely significant example of this. When the U.S. was hit by the great depression they immediately sought to get the loans, which they had made to German, paid back. This, in addition to all of Germany's other problems, practically caused the German economy to collapse."

"With Germany at its weakest and most vulnerable point, Hitler took the opportunity to begin his ascent to power. Even to this date, in a country as diverse and liberally minded as the United States, when the economy is down people desire somewhere to place the blame. For example, the current use of illegal immigrants from Mexico as scapegoats for economic hardships. In Germany, Hitler used the Jewish people as a scapegoat for all of Germany's problems. With disproportional numbers of wealthy Jewish business owners, Hitler convinced much of Germany that the Jews were to blame for the poor economic state."

To me The Catcher In The Rye is supposed to be a warning. But since there are those that want us to be vulnerable and weak is it any wonder that Salinger had to hide his message in plain sight. How by using their own history, movies and "stars".
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The article above comes from this website:

http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/m...
The authors of this site are:
am Daniel Castillo and I am currently a third year business economics major. My portion of this website, I researched how the economic situation in Germany after WWI made it possible for Hitler to gain power. By searching through the University library and internet sources, I was able to find information on the German economy and how they led to the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party.

My name is Carlos Magana, I am a third year Political Science, emphasis in IR, and History Major. I researched how the Versailles Treaty played a role in the ascendance of Hitler into power. I decided to focus my research on the Versailles Treaty because I would argue that the political decisions made by leaders after WWI, ultimately influenced the course of history in the aftermath of WWI.

Hi my name is Steven Molina, I am currently a third year History Major, with emphasis on Public Policy. My research consisted of finding two books that would allow me to illustrate two different points of views on the rise of Hitler’s power. I chose Der Fuehrer Hitler’s Rise to Power, because it was written during the Nazi’s era. The other book I chose to compare and contrast was Hitler And Nazism. These two books were written in two different periods and have two different perspectives on the same topic.

[Cosmic]

In the novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson he talks about vampires verses humans.
At the beginning of chapter three he says:
"The strength of the vampire is that one will believe in them."

He says are they (vampirers) worst than a parent that drains a childs spirit.
Or a parent that raises a neurotic child that becomes a politician
Or a industrialist who sets up a foundation on that money that he made making and selling arms to suicidal nationalist.

handing guns and bombs he made to suicidal nationalist
is he worst than the distilled who gave bastardized brain juice to stultify further the brains of those who sober were incapable of a progressive thought.
is he worst than the publisher that fill ubiquitous racks with lust and death wishes?
Really now. Search your soul lovey, is the vampire so bad?
All he does is drink blood.
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Richard Matheson served in WW2. He wrote the novel The Beardless Warriors: A Novel of World War II. I have not read this book yet but would like to in 2016.

I decided to read this after reading With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa. This is a fantastic account of a marine. He talks about an image that haunted him, and it reminded me of this book. I highly recommend With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa.

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I am putting this book on my list to read next year:

Chasing Gold: The Incredible Story of How the Nazis Stole Europe's Bullion

Seems to me that GOLD may have been the fish!