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Here's what I like about doing business with the yankee government: they change the rules on you whenever they like, and are always happy to stab you in the back without shame or apology.

We send out lots of insured packages through the postal monopoly, USPS, nor is this an inexpensive service. They lost a package valued at $1,000, but before our claim was processed, they sua sponte changed the rules: we will no longer pay insured mail claims against silver, gold, or currency. We found out when we got a check for $16.95, which was, you guessed it, the postage on the package. They kept our thousand bucks.

That's another reason I keep on telling y'all that it makes no sense to belong to any partnership with the yankee government, like an IRA. Give ear: Ownership has two parts, Title & Control. In your IRA-government partnership, you have Title (a legal claim) while the yankee government has Control (possession). It's like lunchtime in California when you own Title to a Big Mac, but it's stored in New Jersey.

What will you do when the yankee government changes the rules & says the only thing your IRA can buy is US gummit bonds? They got you, and your money.

Me, if I own a Big Mac, I'm sure gonna take delivery, at the window, soon as I put my money down.

But mercy! What do I know? I'm just a natural born fool from Tennessee where people are so ignerunt & ole-fashioned they still keep their word & even expect other folks to as well. Most of us have a hand-shake stronger & surer than any contract any lawyer living or dead ever devised.

Currencies: US$1 = Y81.69=E0.7802=0.03037 oz silver= 0.00058 oz. gold.

US dollar index vacillated up & down today, but right now is trading 3.5 basis points higher than yesterday, although it's been lower. Just looks like its stubbornly resisting any further decline. Fell yesterday to near the bottom channel boundary, & near the 200 DMA (80.72), but hasn't penetrated them yet.

Yen took another tumble today, down 0.36% to Y122.42, & looks like the Nice Government Men have pushed it off the cliff again.

Euro rallied 0.26%, second day running, to $1.2817. Sitting plumb on the 200 DMA. Might rally further, though WHY will remain a mystery as deep to me as the purpose of ballet.

You won't catch me bad-mouthing stocks today because they were a bit tired and confused. Some indices rose, some fell. Dow lost 7.45 to 12,788.51, while the S&P500 added 0.92 to 1,387.81. Dow must continue to climb or risk judgment that yesterday's rally was a fluke.

Use any rally as a heaven-sent opportunity to sell stock and put the proceeds into silver & gold.

Awww, silver & gold backed off a little today, probably because all them pointy-toed shoe wearing New York traders flattened their positions before the long weekend. While the cat's away, the rats come out. A thin market tomorrow and Friday gives the few floor traders present -- and the Nice Government Men at a distance -- room to try to frighten the lily-livered by shaking down the silver & gold markets. Don't matter, that old dog won't hunt.

Gold today lost $10.80 to plump back on the $1,725 - 1,720 support. Silver closed down 23.8 cents at 3292.3c.

Plumb suspicious that in the aftermarket gold is trading $4 higher and silver 23.2 cents higher. Makes a wild-eyed paranoid conspiracy theorist like me wonder if they didn't paint the tape on the close. (Whoops! I wasn't supposed to let that slip out, no more'n I'm supposed to tell the truth about the yankee government.)

None of that matters. Support for gold & silver remains intact, indeed, unchallenged. Gold could drop as low as $1,705 & silver to 3180c before any question would poke up its head. Lows today were $1,722.20 and 3266c.

I'm going to be celebrating Thanksgiving by -- oddly enough -- giving hearty thanks & praise to God for blessings greater than I can carry home & more than I can possibly count. Thus I will not be sending y'all a commentary on Wednesday or Friday. God willing, I will return on Monday, 26 November, cantankerous, stubborn, suspicious, narrow-minded, & laughing laughing hard as ever. Y'all enjoy your holiday.

No whit of my outlook changed today. A monstrous, colossal rally in silver & gold hath begun that will endure two years or more. Buy, and use any decline to buy more.

And if that ain't right, complain to Ben Bernanke.

On 20 November 2012 Kentucky's Confederate government filed a secession ordinance. Unfortunately, Kentucky was already occupied by an invading foreign army.

MILESTONES OF AMERICAN CULINARY ACHIEVEMENT: On 20 November 1984 McDonald's made its 50 billionth hamburger. Supersize me! No, no, make mine carrot juice!

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20-Nov-12 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,723.20 -10.80 -0.62%
Silver, $/oz 32.92 -0.26 -0.78%
Gold/Silver Ratio 52.340 0.081 0.16%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0191 -0.0000 -0.16%
Platinum 1,570.50 -10.50 -0.66%
Palladium 637.75 -6.85 -1.06%
S&P 500 1,387.81 0.92 0.07%
Dow 12,788.51 -7.45 -0.06%
Dow in GOLD $s 153.41 0.88 0.58%
Dow in GOLD oz 7.42 0.04 0.58%
Dow in SILVER oz 388.44 2.80 0.72%
US Dollar Index 80.89 0.04 0.05%
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