Webmaster Note: eMail address below did not display properly. Commentary is being redistributed. Apologize for duplicates. 'Tis a measure of the hopelessness of Our Bosses' & Betters' management that the gassy guesses of a central bank committee (the FOMC) can actually move markets. Another measure of that hopelessness is that markets cannot figure out what it means. Somebody SUSPECTS the Fed will inflate more, and commodities and bonds rise hand in hand, which makes no sense at all. A bond amounts to no more that a purchase of dollars in the future, dollars which will then be worth less, so exactly WHY would a rumor of more inflation raise bond prices? Commodities I understand, because inflation will float their prices. Stocks refused to follow their usual illogic and climb on inflationary hints. Add to all that the Fed's Zero Interest Rate Policy which in Europe is now becoming a Negative Interest Rate Policy where bond investors actually pay governments to loan them money. Have any of those Braniacs in central banks considered how long periods of low to no interest rates will affect all those pension funds? Not only are the central banks and their brains bankrupt, but they will also bankrupt everybody else. Days like this I am really glad to be nothing but a natural born fool. That frees me from ever having to think deep thoughts, like them central bankers wear themselves out a-thinkin'. Y'all are going to LIKE today's news., Dollar index kept on dropping on rumors of more Quantitative Easing, i.e., money printing. Surrendered another 14.9 basis points (0.2%) to 81.36. Dollar has plunged over the cliff of support, fell through 81.50 support, and now wants to try to smash through 81. This has a bad feel about it: too much movement all at once. Not the sort of action the Nice Government Men promote. Euro continued to ascend today, floating on clouds of gas & airy speculation. Resistance above $1.2600, back to this year's first low, stands dead ahead. Euro closed up 0.27% at $1.2563. When it entered this ecstatic fit the Euro gapped up over its closely clustered 50 & 62 day moving averages. Those gaps sooner or later get filled. But if the euro breaks the $1.2600 barrier, the big downtrend line stares down from about $1.2725. Mercy! Did I forget to tell y'all that Gold in Euros broke out today, too, with a E1331 close? Broke out of a rising triangle, hinting further advances. Speaking of that, Gold broke out against the Yen too, clearing its 200 day moving average & escaping a congestion area. Yen itself gained 0.17% to 127.40 cents (Y78.49). Now let me tote this up. I'm such an ignerent fool I've got to add it on my faingers: gold broke out against the dollar, gold broke out against the yen, gold broke out against the euro -- why, it does look like the only money left standing is -- GOLD. Well, silver, too., Stock charts today look like a cross section of the Titanic's hull. Dow stumbled 115.3 (0.88%) to 13,057.46. Broader S&P500 lost 0.81% (11.41) to 1,402.08. Ben the Brainiac better get busy saving Wall Street! Before I speak a word about gold & silver, I'm going to warn y'all against enthusiasm. Easiest thing in the world is to get all worked up & cheery about a rising market, disremembering that gravity hasn't stopped working. Faster a market rises, faster it can fall, too. So while after such a long time spent in a correction these rallies make me happier than a six-year old with a new puppy, but don't let a sudden reaction cast you down. The breakouts have been made, but retracements must come to solidify those gains. Now, I've done my duty and I can brag all I want. Silver has risen 245.2 cents in four days, 8.8%. Today it closed up 89,8 cents at 3044.7 -- that's right, above 3000c. In the same four days gold has risen $55.80 or 3.5%. Yesterday it closed at 1637.40, but in the aftermarket rose $17. I looked it about 11:00 p.m. ad it was already above $1,660. High today came at $1,674.72, less than six bucks off that $1,680 target I've been aiming at. Milestone here is gold hitting the descending trendline from last August's top, not to mention cutting through the 200 DMA yesterday. I told y'all those trend followers would jump on when gold crossed that line. Silver closed right at its 200 DMA (3051c). It has not quite touched the downtrend line from the April 2011 top, but is shy of it by only a gnat's whisker. With both silver & gold it's reasonable to expect some pause and reaction to digest gains this huge. Reasonable, too, for both metals to require two tries to break through that huge downtrend line. More, the Relative Strength Index is wildly overbought. Somethin' got to give. That something may be no more than a little drop, but more likely it will reach back toward the breakout points for a final kiss good-bye. Might even punish enthusiasts & trend following vultures by dropping lower than that. That gives the bull a chance to shake off all these newcomers. ON THE OTHER HAND, should gold close over $1,680 tomorrow, or silver above 3130c, y'all get OUT of the way. Just buy fistfuls & call your mama & borrow money from her & buy some more, because closes that high mean much more upside is coming. On 23 August 1784 the Over-The-Mountain Men in east Tennessee declared themselves the independent state of Franklin. A year later congress refused to accept them. Congress didn't have any vision then, either. I am not making this one up. On 24 August 1926 film star Rudolph Valentino dies, causing world-wide hysteria and even a number of suicides. SPECIAL OFFER: Swiss Twenty Francs. Pay close attention, because y'all won't see this again. The Swiss twenty franc is one of the world's most popular coins gold. Minted to the standard of the Latin Monetary Union, 0.1867 troy ounce fine gold, the Swiss twenties contain exactly as much gold as a French 20 franc, Belgian 20 franc, or Italian 20 Lira. They are so well known that survival kits for US pilots used to contain twenty francs, Swiss or otherwise. I bought a slew of them today and must turn them over quickly, so I am willing to sell them at a tiny premium of 4.9% over their gold value. Hard to believe, but that's cheaper than one ounce Krugerrands, Maple Leaves, or American Eagles, and these are small coins. I will sell them in minimum lots of Ten (10) coins at $326.95 each, or $3,269.50 per lot + $25 shipping, a total of $3,294.50. Whether you order one lot or 20, the sole shipping charge is $25. If you wire payment, we will WAIVE the $25 shipping charge. No limit on the number of lots you may order, up to the total I have on hand. When my supply sells out, I cannot sell more at this price. 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Argentum et aurum comparanda sunt —
Silver and gold must be bought.
— Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger
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