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Why can't I believe the Masters of the Universe & Nice Government Men when they keep repeating that "every day in every way the economy is getting better & better"? I might jes' be a natural born fool who don't know no better than to doubt his betters, but then again, maybe their horns don't toot in tune.

Take today, bless their tiny bureaucratic hearts! The media is just a bustin' their propaganda buttons over the Case-Shiller Price Index jumping 9.3% year over year. Now I just worked up that graph (I'm a fool, but I can work Excel) and that index looks none too healthy, although the 12 month rate of change is rising. However, the very same day my Masters tell me how good the housing industry is, a local builder tells me (1) home building is as bad as he's ever seen it, (2) it's not getting better, (3) no such thing as building houses on speculation any more, and (4) only the most financially secure people can get mortgages to build now.

Who's a natural born fool to believe? Them known liars on Wall Street & in Washington? Why, they while away their time pulling the wings off flies! Or should I believe a man of proven integrity & truthfulness? Y'all tell me, 'cause I jes' can't figure it out.

Stocks enjoyed a bold day, both closing on their highs. This would be a good place for them to press higher, but a more likely place for them to fail.

S&P500 rose 5.03 (0.25%) to 1,597.57, a new all-time high. Gainsaying its little brother, the Dow didn't reach a new high, but closed at 14,839.80, up 21.05 (0.14%). (Dow's all-time intraday high came 11 April at 14,887.51, high close same day at 14,864.14.). I told y'all a while ago it's too hard for me to parse mania markets, so I will just say, Don't expect this to end well, but in weeping, wailing, & gnashing of teeth.

I don't know. Maybe I misjudged the euro. Maybe it ain't sorry as gully dirt after all -- but don't y'all bet on that. It did break out over its downtrend line today, which I should have foreseen yesterday when it hit that 62 DMA. Truth to tell, I just don't care that much what one scurvy, scrofulous fiat currency or the other does. It's like watching dinosaurs die and betting which one will go extinct first.

Euro rose 0.54% today, a sizeable jump, to close near its $1.3086 high at $1.3170. If the scurvo -- make that euro -- can get past $1.3200, it can run, but that level might stop it cold.

Japanese yen rose 0.34% today to close at 102.65 cents/Y100. It, too, today closed above its downtrend line. I would no more bet on that than I would be fitted for a wooden leg. No telling what those NGM will do. Don't trust 'em.

US DOLLAR INDEX was today's sickest sufferer. Dropped 44.5 basis points (0.57%) to 81.693, below support it had to hold if it intended to rally. Hate to call anything the NGM are steadily manipulating, but if this were a real market, today's weakness and close way below the 50 DMA yesterday would send it dropping like a hand axe off a tree-climbing West Coast lumberjack.

Whoops! Looky there! The Dow & S&P500 are a-making new highs, but the Dow in Silver (613.6 oz today, up 1.38%) & the Dow in gold (10.08 oz today, up 0.37%) ain't. In fact, they are still a-downtrending. Stocks have turned down against gold & silver, a very good, a splendid sign.

Silver & gold are blowing hot and cold out of both sides of their mouth. Gold rose $4.80 today to $1,472.20 while silver rose a measly 2.2 cents to 2414.4c. Gold looks to be knocking on a $1,476 ceiling, while silver appears to have peaked yesterday.

Silver must not sink below 2400c, lest it suffer another cascade. Gold needs to hang on above $1,450. I'm sure gold's problem (& gold is leading right now) is that the approaching $1,500 mark is wearing at gold like Kryptonite wears on Superman. I still incline to one more plunge, whether to a slightly lower or slightly higher low I don't know, just to prove the bottom has feet. THEN, oh, THEN y'all will see silver & gold begin to rise once more.

On 30 April 1900 Hawaii was organized as a US territory, and well it ought to have been. After all, we stole it fair and square.

MILESTONES OF AMERICAN CULTURE: On 30 April 1938 appeared for the first time the cartoon character who would become Bugs Bunny. The rabbit's noisy munching was based on Clark Gable's carrot chewing in the 1934 movie, It Happened One Night. Actually, I consider Bugs Bunny to be one of America's foremost contributions to world culture. No, I mean it.

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30-Apr-13 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,472.20 4.80 0.33%
Silver, $/oz 24.14 0.02 0.09%
Gold/Silver Ratio 60.976 0.143 0.24%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0164 -0.0000 -0.24%
Platinum 1,505.40 -0.20 -0.01%
Palladium 696.70 -1.40 -0.20%
S&P 500 1,597.57 3.96 0.25%
Dow 14,839.80 21.05 0.14%
Dow in GOLD $s 208.37 7.50 3.73%
Dow in GOLD oz 10.08 0.36 3.73%
Dow in SILVER oz 614.64 0.31 0.05%
US Dollar Index 81.69 -0.45 -0.54%
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