Whole world's crazy as a Betsy bug. The euro, stocks, silver & gold exploded upward today on news that the Europeans are going to bail out their banks DIRECTLY (think the US TARP bailout) rather than giving the money to sovereign governments so they could pay it to the banks. Only trouble is, nobody knows where the money will come from. Let's see, Spain is going to contribute to the fund to bail out Spanish banks? This is financial perpetual motion at its delusional best. Oh, and the greater centralization is there, too, with some euro banking control agency. Well, it's a party today but when the liquor runs out & the headaches & puking begin, they'll stop celebrating . That should come next week some time.

Here's why I don't believe this latest fix -- I've lost count how many "at last" fixes there have been for Europe -- can possibly work. It is a complicated mathematical answer, but bear with me and pull out your calculus manuals: there is not enough money in Europe to bail out the banks. Shoot, there ain't enough money in the world to bail out European governments & banks. But y'all believe what you want. I ain't nothing but a nacheral born fool from Tennessee anyway, so ignerant & unsophistercated I still believe the addition and subtraction tables. So what will they do? They will inflate, like I've been telling y'all so long, & they will send silver & gold rocketing into Outer Space.

STOCKS investors believe that inflation will be good for stocks. They may also believe in fairy dust & Tinkerbelle, for all I know, but they'll sure enough find out. Dow rose 277.38 (2.2%) to 12,880.09. S&P 500 rose a little more, 2.5% (33.12) to 1,362.16.

Technically, the S&P500 could -- and nearly has -- rallied to the H&S neckline it fractured in May, about $1,375. Today took it above the 50 DMA (1,340.21). Shoot, if enough of them pointy-toe-shoe Wall Streeters get hyped up on White Powder, they may take it to 1,400. Outcome will still be tragic, taking millions of unsuspecting Main Streeters to the cleaners later this summer. Dow is in a similar fix, & today slung it nearly to the top Bollinger Band (12,967.24). Don't get no better than that.

If I had to say, Old Ben the Bandit wanted to give the markets a goose for his European accomplices in global crime, so he slapped the dollar, knowing that HUGE short position in the euro was ready to be panicked, driving up the euro. Also, that move would give the latest European "fix" more believability in the gullible's eyes.

Dollar index sank like a lump in a churn today. Overnight it broke 82.60 then plunged straight -- I mean "straight like dropping a stiff corpse over a high cliff" -- bounced once, then plunged to its low (81.43) about 9:00, with ne'er a friend to help. That hurteth the weekly chart not a bit, but the shorter term looks right sick. Last low, & coincidentally the 50 DMA (81.21), was 81.16. If the dollar passes that mark it confirms a downtrend & nixes a rally.

Y'all, this ain't nacheral. US Dollar Index lost 107.1 basis points (1.38%), a Seven League Boots move. Yen lost, too, 0.43% to 125.32/Y100 (Y79.8/US$1). Euro was the big gainer, up 1.83% at $1.2665. That takes it up through 1.2624 resistance, but overhead about 1.2725 loometh the downtrend line. Will most likely rally a while, just to work off that Brobdingnagian short position, but still ain't worth no more than a toupee hairpiece in a tornado.

Last Friday I wrote,

" Long & short is this: If gold doesn't hold $1,525 and silver 2615c, they will drop much further, as low as $1,450 and 2250c."

Yesterday's gold low came at $1,547 and silver's at 2612c. Today gold closed up $53.80 [sic] at $1,603.50 & silver at 2758c, up 133.3c. Those were huge moves, but don't miss this: they took gold through two resistance levels and silver over 2750c.

This merely takes gold to the middle of its Bollinger bands, so there's plenty of room ti run to the upper boundary at $1,645.01. Gold also closed above its 50 dma ($1,602.51), & within an easy sprint of the 200 DMA $1,666.78. RSI turned up, along with MACD.

Today's rally was real, as real as an apple pie hitting you in the face. And it will slow down, but that confirms & proves the preceding lows as much as you could ask.

But never forget that markets have to keep on confirming themselves. Gold might fall back to $1,590, but shouldn't close there. It must keep on advancing, say, next week through $1,625.

Silver's close above 2750c resistance is today's most welcome news. It nearly reached its 20 DMA (2803c), & other indicators have turned up. Has plenty of room to run on the upside without becoming overbought (like stocks, for instance).

Much as I can tell, that's it for the declines. Silver & gold may not run away upside from here, may spend time grinding slowly higher, but that should put the end to these "bottom gonna drop out" scares.

Just a couple of reminders, friends. Less than $1,000 per head of currency circulates in the USA. Best way to avoid a bar fight is to leave the bar before it breaks out., Same thing holds for bank runs: leave the bank -- take out money -- before it starts. Better get used to keeping your excess funds in gold coin you hold, rather than bank accounts held by thieves, fools, and knaves.

On the Supreme Court's puerile approval of forced medical insurance in Obamacare, here's a axiom for y'all to digest. Whenever government messes in a market, three things inevitably happen, no exceptions:

1. It reduces quantity (availability)

2. It lowers quality

3. It raises price.

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I spent all day with my wife Susan in Nashville at Vanderbilt Clinic. She's going to have to have a mitral valve replacement and tricuspid valve repair on 3 July 2012. I humbly ask for you to pray that she would have a successful surgery, that all those who help her would have wisdom, skill, insight, and alertness, and that she might have a speedy recovery. Pray also that I would take it all with hope, calmly, patiently, & with good grace. Hard to watch somebody you have loved for 45 years in pain.

Y'all enjoy your weekend!

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

— Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger

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The US DOLLAR INDEX is the average exchange rate for the US dollar against the Euro, Yen, Pound sterling, Canadian Dollar, Swiss Franc, and Swedish Krona, weighted for each country's trade with the US. It gives a general measure of the US dollar's performance against all other currencies.

The DOW IN GOLD DOLLARS measures the Dow Jones Industrial Average in gold dollars (0.048375 troy oz. by law). The DiG$ depicts the Primary (20 year) Trend of stocks against gold. When the DiG$ is dropping, gold is gaining value against stocks in a trend that should last 15-20 years. The DiG$'s chart is identical to the Dow in ounces of gold, but gives us one unvarying measure all the way back to 1896. Because it shows the primary trend ("tide") of gold against stocks, for investors it is the single most important financial chart in the world today. Since its August 1999 high at G$925.42 (44.8 ounces), the DiG$ has trended down, targeting a G$80-G$20 (4-1 oz. of gold will buy the whole Dow).

The DOW IN SILVER OUNCES shows how many ounces of silver are needed to buy the entire Dow. The DiSoz is trending down with a target of under 36 ounces.

The GOLD/SILVER RATIO is the gold price divided by the silver price, and shows how many ounces of silver it takes to buy one ounce of gold. The Ratio shows us the Primary (20 year) Trend of gold's value against silver. When the Ratio's trend is dropping, silver is gaining value against gold. This trend targets a gold/silver ratio of 16 ounces of silver to one of gold within the next 5-10 years. That implies that silver will massively, vastly outperform gold before this bull market ends. When both metals are rallying, the ratio often (but not always) drops, confirming the rally.

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