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On Monday, 22 August I will be speaking for the Campaign for Liberty in Memphis at Jason's Deli, 3473 Poplar Ave. Suite 102, near Poplar & Highland. Speech should start shortly after 6:30 p.m.

DID SOMEBODY MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY THAT THE WORLD IS CLOSING DOWN? I looked for some news item that might have sent gold screaming & stocks careening, but other than Ferkel & Sarcophagus announcing they want -- never mind the euphemisms -- a European government so ruled from the center it will make our state government look like independent republics. Oh, yes, & Bernard O'Bama is meddling in Syria's business & demands Assad give up power. Why don't any of these folks just demand right back that O'Bama give up power?

But I'm having too much fun & am getting off point. I couldn't find a single item that would launch a panic. Euro didn't even get beaten up badly until after New York Opened.

Whatever the catalyst, it threw US stocks down enough to qualify as one of the 20 or 30 biggest point moves ever, down 419.63 (3.68%- owch!) to 10,990.58 in Dowville, with the S&P500 swooning even worse by 53.24 points (4.46%) to 1,140.65. Talking heads are as stumped as I am, talking about "growing fears of global recession" on bad US economic data and more bad news from euro-banks.

IF YOU STILL HAVE STOCKS, GET OUT NOW! Put the proceeds into silver & gold, and take everything you've ever learned about "diversification," by which the experts all mean "buying different stocks" & throw it out in the carport and beat it to death with your ball peen hammer.

If stocks are the answer, the question must be, "How can I lose LOTS of money quickly without buying lottery tickets?"

Do any of y'all remember my saying not too long ago that stocks had lost more than 80% against silver & gold since 2001 & 1999, and would lose another 80% before stocks' bear market & metals' bull market ends? Do I remember that, or am I mistaken?

Today the Dow in Gold Dollars stands at G$124.91 (6.042 oz) and the Dow in Silver Ounces at 270.13. Y'all write that down someplace, & hide and watch.

Y'all want a real laugh? Go to www.stockcharts.com & make a Sharp Chart for the Philadelphia Bank Index, "$BKX." Tell me what kind of strength that shows.

US Dollar index slapped 'em all in the face today by jumping 53.2 basis points, up 0.68% to 74.206, back from the bottom of the range to the middle. One wonders idly how many zillion dollars the Nice Government Men had to sell today to keep the dollar from rising through 75.50.

Mistake me not! Long term the dollar is a cooked goose, a dead duck, a terminated turkey, a poached peacock. But short term it has yet enough strength to pull in money in a panic. Proof? The yield on the 10 year treasury note (inverse of the note's value) dropped again today, nay, gapped down & plunged.

But hark! Is that a double top that the 30 year treasury bond is forming with the September 2010 high? Would that be a harbinger of great depths to come, of wailing, weeping, and gnashing of teeth as the Harbor of Dollar Refuge becomes the Maelstrom of Vanishing Value?

Euro, to put it almost politely, got the snot slapped out of it today Closed down 0.58% at 1.4341, gapped down in fact, & now resteth upon its 20 dma, preparatory to plummeting toward the Earth's Core. Yen remains suspended high above the earth at 130.57c/Y100 (Y76.58/$).

Fueled by unabated panic, gold about 6:00 a.m. pushed through $1,800 and by 10:00 stood over $1,825. Backed off a bit till noon, then began advancing again. Comex closed at $1,818.90, up $27.70 and another new all time high. Top of this channel is someplace around $2,000. When I saw gold over $1,825, I just picked up the phone and bought a bunch. Sure, sure, that's chasing a market, but what else can you do when after a 2-day close over the old high it breaks into new high territory? You buy it, and close your hanging jaw.

Before I bought gold, though, I bought lots more silver. Not as strong as gold, but all it needed to do was break through that 4000c resistance, & there it stood at 4070c. Argue with the tape if you want to, but I don't. Yes, silver still has a tough row to hoe at 4100c & 4200c, but get the picture: it is FOLLOWING gold, not moving against it. Behold, something new under the sun!

Big trouble coming. Go back to my 29 July commentary & 16 August commentary & re-read the preparations listed there. Call me Chicken Little if you like, 'twon't bother me cause I've been vilified by experts, but take that list seriously. Remember those riots in London.

Somebody asked me if I made up Davy Crockett's birth in the "State of Franklin." Now y'all know I wouldn't do anything like that. There really was a State of Franklin. The over-the-mountain men in East Tennessee wanted their own state and from 1784-1788 they set it up, naming it Franklin hoping to obtain Benjamin's sponsorship in Congress. North Carolina, needless to add, wasn't keen on the idea. After the State of Franklin collapsed North Carolina ceded the area that would become Tennessee to the United States.

On 18 August 1587 Virginia Dare became the first English child born on American soil at the Roanoke Island, NC, colony. Later that colony completely vanished, & one legend says that their descendants wandered to East Tennessee around Newman's Ridge & became the Melungeons. Those are a mixed race people, part European, but nobody is very sure where the came from. If not from Roanoke, then perhaps from the Welsh Prince Madoc who allegedly built Old Stone Fort at Manchester sometime after 1000 a.d..

There's no telling what you'll find in Tennessee. Y'all are welcome to come poke around, but bring your manners with you. And all that stuff about aliens taking over Nashville isn't true. They took over Washington.

Argentum et aurum comparanda sunt —
Silver and gold must be bought.

— Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger

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18-Aug-11 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,818.90 27.70 1.5
Silver, $/oz 40.69 0.34 0.8
Gold/Silver Ratio 44.700 0.313 0.7
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0224 -0.0002 -0.7
Platinum 1,847.00 0.00 0.0
Palladium 757.00 -19.00 -2.4
S&P 500 1,140.65 -53.24 -4.5
Dow 10,990.58 -419.63 -3.7
Dow in GOLD $s 124.91 -6.76 -5.1
Dow in GOLD oz 6.04 -0.33 -5.1
Dow in SILVER oz 270.13 -12.66 -4.5
US Dollar Index 74.21 0.53 0.7
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