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Dow rose for the tenth (10th) straight day, S&P500 has risen 11 out of the last 13 days. Oh, friends, it just don't work this way. Markets can't rise forever, & though stocks may get more rabid & frothy yet, it still don't work this way.

But then, denying any eventual pay-day is pretty much the main stock in trade of the yankee government, the Fed, & American society. As John Calvin might say, Lots of luck.

Dow added 83.86 (0.58%) to 14,539.14, and -- did I mention -- it's tenth new high running. S&P500 added 8.71 to end on its high at 1,563.23, still a little off that 2007 high at 1,565.15. Will probably get wilder, crazier, & drunker before it breaks, but look out then!

Dow in gold made a tinier higher high today, to 9.15 oz (G$189.15 gold dollars) over 9.14 (G$188.94). This moves sidewise on the chart, & hath stalled right about where my target was (9.12oz).

Dow in silver did make a higher high today, to 504.74 oz. Broke out upside from a rising wedge, but only slightly. Might have another 10 oz in it.

The US DOLLAR INDEX reached over that 83 resistance today at 83.166, & sellers were waiting on it with a sledge hammer, cold-cocked it, & knocked it down plumb to 82.427. Time I am writing this it is trading 82.559, down 35.6 basis points (0.46%) on the day. I make that the first half of a key reversal. Lower price tomorrow puts the second & last piece in place.

Euro was the big gainer off the dollar's tumble, gaining 0.37% to $1.3005, but you know, you can put lipstick on a hog and hang earrings on it, but it's still a hog. And first time you let it loose, it'll run back to wallow in that mire.

Yen rose a meaningless little bit, 0.04% to 104.07. Stay away.

US$1=Y96.09=E0.7689+0.034755 oz Ag=0.006286 oz Au.

Today I've been staring at long term charts. Folks, when those stocks break down and silver & gold break up, Bogus Ben will spend months crying, gnashing his teeth, and moaning. Bull market in silver & gold has by no means ended, nor has the bear market in stocks. Y'all hide and watch.

Silver backed off 15 cents today to 2877.2 while gold gained $2.30 to $1,590.60, closing near the range's upper end.

From a low at $1,577.37 right after the market opened gold kept climbing today, threw a leg over Unchanged about noon, then kept climbing. That $1,995 remains a barrier. Dad-durn! Did I forget to tell y'all that today marks Gold's THIRD day of break-out above that little pennant? Or that it closed above its 20 dma ($1,588.01) today? What's the matter with my memory?

Shucks, I like to forgot that gold's MACD momentum indicator turned up, several days ago. Pointing up now for sure.

Too early to call it a rally, but that's a bunch of purple martins if there ain't no spring close behind.

Silver has looked weaker. 20 DMA is at 2909 cents, & silver can punch into the upper boundary line of that pennant, but can't break out of it. However, its MACD has turned up.

It's the little things that make life so much fun.

To please the bankers, on 14 March 1900 the US congress passed the so-called Gold Standard Act. The act changed nothing, but threw up a deceptive barrier to the millions of silver advocates. Why could the act do nothing? Because the US congress in 1792 had already made the standard coin of the US the "dollar" of silver (0.7734 troy ounce fine silver) They couldn't make gold the standard if they tried, because that act was as far beyond them and unconstitutional as suddenly declaring that throughout the US the "foot" would henceforth have only ten inches. Once congress "sets" a standard, it can't change the standard later -- unchanging is what a standard's all about., The banks, of course, wanted the so-called gold standard because it really was no gold standard at all, but only a standard that made paper & bank deposits equal to gold for a while, until they could elbow gold out of the system.

On 14 March 1791 the first handicapped woman balloonist, the German Margareta von Krummbein, successfully ascended to 800 feet before her balloon tragically was hit by lightning, caught fire and tumbled her to her demise in the Rhine River below.

Argentum et aurum comparanda sunt —
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— Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger

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14-Mar-13 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,590.60 2.30 0.14%
Silver, $/oz 28.77 -0.15 -0.52%
Gold/Silver Ratio 55.281 0.366 0.67%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0181 -0.0001 -0.66%
Platinum 1,587.80 -3.30 -0.21%
Palladium 768.80 -0.45 -0.06%
S&P 500 1,563.23 8.71 0.56%
Dow 14,539.14 83.86 0.58%
Dow in GOLD $s 188.95 7.50 4.13%
Dow in GOLD oz 9.14 0.36 4.13%
Dow in SILVER oz 505.30 5.52 1.10%
US Dollar Index 82.56 -0.36 -0.43%
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