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What would y'all think of a doctor who visited your house (y'all can tell this is a fairy tale already, can't you?) when your child had a temperature of 101º F. and recommended you pack the child in ice to lower that temp down to 89º F. ? That way, he says, "he won't be sick any longer."

Y'all all know that lowering a sick person's temperature way below what's normal does NOT constitute a cure. Yet Central Banking Criminal Dr. Draghi announces that he, like Dr. Ben Bernanke, will cure the sick patient by holding down his temperature. This is what it means to suppress interest rates in a sick economy: it only makes the patient sicker, & might even kill him.

It's worse than that. The European Stability Mechanism, the garbage can into which all the rotten bonds will be cast, will directly buy the bonds from countries in trouble, like Spain, Italy, & Greece. Now I'm just a natural born fool from Tennessee so subtleties are lost on me. Maybe y'all can explain to me exactly how this differs from outright monetizing government debt? This is what the German constitution forbids, remembering the Weimar hyperinflation when the Central Bank directly monetized government debt. This is the issue the German Constitutional court addresses on 12 September, but shucks! Constitutions don't mean nothing nowadays. When politics demand, judges yield, and so does law.

And remember, when Draghi says, "The euro is irreversible," you are hearing the feckless Pop-Pop! of the Blarney Cannon. Nothing in this sublunary world of mutability is irreversible. Nothing. Only rule here is, "Everything changes, all the time."

Once again today we saw the wisdom of the proverb, "Buy the rumor, sell the news." Draghi's Big announcement caused nothing more than a little mouse burp in the market. US dollar index fell 19.1 basis points (0.25%), but fell not through rugged resistance at 81.00. Japanese Nice Government Men took this opportunity to trash the Yen. It fell 0.62%, through its 20 & 50 day moving averages to 126.77c (y78.88). Euro rose only 0.25%, not much of a move & pretty wobbly on the chart. Barely poked its head through $1.2600 resistance to close at $1.2635.

My, O, My! Lots o' joy in Stockville today! After all, lots more inflation will help the economy -- won't it? Yes, sweetheart, just shortly after hell freezes over solid.

Dow gained 244.52 (1.87%) to close at 13,292, just below the August intraday high at 13,330.76 and the May high at 13,338.66. S&P500 actually exceeded its August & may high. It gained 15.51 (2.04%) to 1,432.12.

Don't sell the farm to buy stocks just yet. When measured in gold, today's stocks closes are 7.5% below this years highs. Stocks will NOT outperform gold any time soon.

Gold crossed above $1,700 today, rising $11.80 to $1,702.60. I remind y'all, for an object lesson in the potential speed of gold moves, that 14 days ago only gold crossed above $1,600.

Gold standeth now above its 20, 50, 150 (key long term moving average), and 200 DMAs. Gold left the 200 way back there at $1,645.79.

Gold is still targeting $1,740 for this move. Watch for a reaction after that when you can buy, buy, buy. Bottom of that first correction after a market begins moving up is the safest place to buy always. Not always the most profitable, but the safest.

Silver skipped 34.7 cents to end at 3261.9c. High came at 3298c as silver challenged the next milestone, 3300c.

Day by day the gold/silver ratio keeps on dropping. as silver outperforms gold. It has dropped from the summer highs (and highs for the move) at 59+ to 52.197 today, and left two gaps down along the way. 200 DMA now stands at 54.34. Doesn't have much more downside in it before a reaction will start that will take it at least to 54. If you have not yet swapped gold for silver, that will be your last change. This move will target something below 30:1.

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On this day in 1757 was born Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roche Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de LaFayette was born. He was sent with the French royalist forces to aid the American Revolution, then was later nearly killed by the French Revolution. He returned to this country in the 1820s to a hero's welcome.

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

— Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger

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6-Sep-12 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,702.60 11.80 0.70%
Silver, $/oz 32.62 0.35 1.08%
Gold/Silver Ratio 52.197 -0.196 -0.37%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0192 0.0001 0.37%
Platinum 1,585.40 10.80 0.69%
Palladium 647.00 0.85 0.13%
S&P 500 1,432.12 1,551.00 -1304.68%
Dow 13,929.00 244.52 1.79%
Dow in GOLD $s 169.12 1.83 1.09%
Dow in GOLD oz 8.18 0.09 1.09%
Dow in SILVER oz 427.02 2.99 0.70%
US Dollar Index 81.23 -0.11 -0.14%
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British sovereign 0.24 400.56 407.56 1,731.34
French 20 franc 0.19 317.69 324.69 1,739.09
Krugerrand 1.00 1,715.21 1,730.21 1,730.21
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SILVER Fine Tr.Oz. BID ASK $/oz
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VG+ Peace dollar 0.77 25,000.00 27,500.00 35.95
90% silver coin bags 0.72 23,040.88 23,290.88 32.57
US 40% silver 1/2s 0.30 9,152.38 9,327.38 31.62
100 oz .999 bar 100.00 3,262.50 3,312.50 33.13
10 oz .999 bar 10.00 331.25 333.75 33.38
1 oz .999 round 1.00 32.48 33.33 33.33
Am Eagle, 200 oz Min 1.00 34.23 34.88 34.88
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