Thanks!
I am still waiting for Mark to call me, tentatively I was hoping to get to Ceres late this
afternoon, after maybe 5 sometime.
Craig
Well I had the days mixed up. I met our friend from London (Ceydababy) at the Ceres last night, and we had plenty of beers. I think we had a great and productive conversation. I had a chance to find out more about various types of trading that happens there. As I surmised, like in the US, much of the structure of what and how people trade is tax policy driven.
We stayed for a few hours and then we (I limped as I will have surgery soon) over the the Berghoff, a classic Chicago tavern, present back almost to the time of the Chicago fire in 1871 (in the great tradition of my family lineage drinkers, my great-grandfather drank there over 100 years ago (I know, paltry duration amongst British tradition with millennia of history...)).
I hope my friend got just a taste of the trading environments that make up the storied trading floors and community of Chicago.
We cabbed it back to Wrigleyville, thereafter. From what I understand, ceydababy will head to southern Illinois for a wedding today -- and will get a taste of why most Americans opt to skip trains for the car, on our nationalized railway Amtrak. Oh would it be cool if we had 125 trains, too!
For anyone hesitant to do such a get together, don't worry. It was without risk and a lot of fun!
Craig