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A late friend of mine, God rest his soul, used to look at the news and ask, "Is it real, or Memorex?" Are you seeing what you seem to see, or is it all a set-up painted & played by government agencies & "intelligence" services. Just so I notice that the US Department of [In]justice is presently squeezing HSBC Bank. Now most likely neither of these parties are the sort you'd want living next to you, but one wonders how HSBC could have been laundering the accused zillions all these years without DoJ ever sniffing a clue.

Is it real, or Memorex? Is it the money-laundering, or did HSBC merely cross somebody powerful & need to be taught a lesson? Did somebody miss his cut?

Same question arises about Generals Petraeus & Allen. How come when Teddy Kennedy womanizes it's no big deal, but the whole green Army & government & even the FBI (does not stand for Female Bureau of Investigation) suddenly goes all foamy-mouth about what couldn't have been much secret. Maybe there's another reason to get rid of them?

Think about it: easiest way to ruin somebody would be to plant child porn in his trunk, then call the cops on him. Never mind that they man has the integrity of an oak tree, once that hits the headlines every friend he ever had & most of his kin will smell the "smoke" and run away like scalded dogs, leaving him to hang unassisted, easy prey for the government.

But is it real, or Memorex?

Nasty US dollar index today lost a weighty 26.1 basis points (0.34%) to end at 80.067, barely hanging on above the morale bruising 80 level. Scabby dollar has spent its fuel, but is hovering today, awaiting news from tomorrow's meeting of the FOMC (Fiends Opposed to Monetary Character). I've given up on trying to figure out how markets will react to anything the Fed or its cancerous committees do. Whatever they do, other than shut and bolt the doors & go out of business, will HURT the dollar long term.

Tomorrow's question hinges on whether the Fed will continue "Operation Twist" whereby the Fed obstructs, hamstrings, hampers, hinders, hobble, and handcuffs the real economy by suppressing long term interest rates AND continuing to misdirect capital away from truly profitable & useful undertakings. Let me predict that in some transmogrification or other, they will, because the only other answer -- stop digging the hole deeper -- will never occur to their control-starved brains & Size 1 consciences. (Sizes 1 through 18 consciences fit ringworm fungus, the larger single-celled animalcules, some bacteria, cockroaches, mealy bugs, most worms, planaria, tapeworms & other internal parasites, all the way up to earwigs, ticks, chiggers, leeches, & lamprey eels. Most mammalian consciences are Size 80 or larger.)

Euro rose 0.5% today to $1.3005, Yen fell 0.2% to 121.20c/Y100.

US4=Y82.51=E0.7689=0.030 357 oz Ag= 0.000 585 oz Au.

Stocks bumped up today, apparently expecting good news from the Friends Of Monetary Corruption. Dow gained 78.56 (0.6%) to 13,248.44 (I told y'all, 13,300 is coming). S&P500 added 9.29 (0.65%) to 1,427.84.

Only question left in what passes for my brain is whether the Dow will drop like a poleaxed steer from 13,300 or race on up to pull in as many poor victims as possible. I hope y'all tie yourselves to the mast & refuse to harken to the Sirens' song.

Silver & gold had a punk day. Silver forked over 35.9 cents to close at 3294.1c while gold gave back $4.80 to $1,708.20.

Here, too, markets are holding their breath waiting for tomorrow. After rising from last Thursday, gold peaked yesterday at $1,716.74 & traded sideways today between $1,714.30 & $1,705.45. That $1,705 support is still gold's line in the sand. Cross that & drop a long ways. Up above the barrier is $1,725. Cross that & rise a long piece.

Silver's low today at 3275c looks feisty, but it's still holding breath. Silver is caught in a range like gold: must hold 3250c, must better 3340c. Meanwhile we wait.

Don't misread all this. You are watching the tail-end of a silver & gold correction. Whether by month end or next month, both will come roaring up out of this hole, launching skyward like an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile out of a Nebraska silo. If you have none, you'd better be buying some. If you have some, you'd better be planning to buy more.

Fomenting the greatest hoax in history since the income tax, on 11 December 1997 more than 150 countries agreed to control the Earth's greenhouse gasses in the Kyoto conference on global warming. At the same time they voted to provide $42 billion to feed homeless leprechauns. (Just joking. It was only $32 billion.)

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Gold, $/oz 1,709.80 -4.80 -0.28%
Silver, $/oz 32.94 -0.36 -1.08%
Gold/Silver Ratio 51.905 0.415 0.81%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0193 -0.0002 -0.80%
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Palladium 695.30 -7.95 -1.13%
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Dow 13,248.44 78.56 0.60%
Dow in GOLD $s 160.33 1.41 0.89%
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