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Here's the weekly scorecard:
  10-May-13 17-May-13 Change % Change
Silver, cents/oz. 2,363.20 2,233.90 -129.30 -5.5
Gold, dollars/oz. 1,436.80 1,364.90 -71.90 -5.0
Gold/silver ratio 60.799 61.099 0.300 0.5
Silver/gold ratio 0.0164 0.0164 -0.0001 -0.5
Dow in Gold Dollars (DIG$) 217.52 232.55 15.04 6.9
Dow in gold ounces 10.52 11.25 0.73 6.9
Dow in Silver ounces 639.75 687.35 47.61 7.4
Dow Industrials 15,118.49 15,354.79 236.30 1.6
S&P500 1,633.70 1,658.18 24.48 1.5
US dollar index 83.17 84.28 1.11 1.3
Platinum 1,486.00 1,468.00 -18.00 -1.2
Palladium 704.60 739.50 34.90 5.0

Back when country music was still country and still music, an obscure artist named Stonewall Jackson in 1959 penned this lines in the song "Waterloo:

Waterloo, Waterloo

Where will you meet your Waterloo?

Every puppy has its day

Everybody has to pay

Everybody has to meet his Waterloo.

As stocks ground higher and ever higher to new all-time highs for the fourth week in a row and silver & gold continued to be slugged & kicked and the US dollar, of all scrofulous currencies, broke out upside, my mind kept returning to those lines: "Every puppy has his day." I reckon the central bankers are having theirs right now, but one day "Everybody has to meet his Waterloo." Meanwhile, the media are trying to convince us, in the words of a friend I heard today, that water runs uphill. I'm such a durned ol' fashioned, natural born fool that I just can't swallow that. Ain't no problem figuring out why I'm not president, is there?

It won't overload your credulity, I suspect, to note that stocks have risen further than I thought possible. When a market keeps edging higher like this, you just have to step out of its way. Both the Dow & S&P500 have thrown-over their resistance lines, built rising wedges, and gotten more overbought than doobies at a rock festival, but they keep going (and maybe for the same sort of reason). Anyhow, they are floating on a wave of newly created money from the Fed, not economic reality. At some point that cobweb breaks, but I can't predict when. I just don't believe in Zimbabwe-nomics, the doctrine that you can inflate your way to prosperity.

Hack, hack! Now that I've coughed that bone up out of my throat, let's proceed.

Dow today mounted on buzzard's wings & floated up 121.57 or 0.8%. S&P500 with a vulture's grace rose 15.64 (0.95%) to 1,658.18. Stupor mundi, or stupid mundi, one.

Dow/Gold today reached a new high at 11.25 oz. (G$232.55 gold dollars), up 2.4% Dow in Silver vaulted 14.6 oz. (2.2%) to a new high at 687.35 oz. Those higher prices sent me scurrying back to the charts trying to make sense of it. Looking back at the Dow in Gold's fall from it's last peak in 2007 at 21.06 oz., today's price doesn't quite reach a 38.2% correction. Today's close left the Dow/Gold barely above its long term (14 year) downtrend line. Right, I'm chewing my nails, too, wondering when reality will kick in.

I reckon with the Yen losing 25% of its value against the dollar in nine months that yen-holders would be looking around for someplace else to stash their cash, like US dollars. And with the euro facing a new crisis every fortnight & political paralysis, from that vantage point the dollar might look a little less scabby, too. Proving it has reached escape orbit speed, the dollar today mounted 53.4 basis points to 84.279, up 0.69%. It's top trend line points to 86 in about three weeks unless it stumbles. Above that stands only 89.

The Nice Government Men in Japan are obliging the dollar by sinking to ever new lows, a new one today at 96.86, down 0.95%. And somebody pointed out something to me in the euro today I hadn't noticed before, a head & shoulders with a neckline around $1.2800. Euro closed today down 0.33% to $1.2839. Once it breaks that neckline it will drop quickly to $1.2600, maybe $1.2000.

Silver & gold were humiliated again today. Silver dipped 30.4 cents to 2233.9c. Gold dove $22.20 to $1,364.90. No sign yet of turning round.

However, silver's lows yesterday and today ran about 2206c (different charts give different figures). That's enough to call it a double bottom with the 2200c low on 15 April, but not enough to say it won't drop lower. It will have to show that next week.

Gold's weakness today and a new low for the move at $1,358.39 argue it will drop on down to $1,322, the previous low. Can gold go lower? Yes. It can drop to $1,250. Next week will tell.

About the only bright spot for silver & gold is the Gold/Silver ratio at 61.099. It doesn't seem to want to climb, which would signal lower prices for the metals. But it ain't too decisive, either.

Question everybody keeps asking me: Has the gold & silver bull market ended? Answer. NO! Inflation, the primary driver of monetary demand which drives silver & gold bull markets, is stronger than ever in the hands of hapless, feckless central bankers. As long as that cause remains, the effect, higher silver & gold prices, will resume. Our Masters are busily trying to con y'all out of your silver & gold, and y'all know you can trust 'em. I'm from the government, & I'm here to help you.

Don't miss this article on the Daily Bell at http://bit.ly/10urT48 It concerns groundwork being laid for the gold-plated system to replace the current monetary system. Makes you think a global currency is what they've been after all along (like since 1942). Maybe Ben & Mario aren't really stupid. Maybe they're acting dumb on purpose. Who knows?

On 17 May 1792 the New York Stock Exchange was founded at 70 Wall Street by 24 brokers who had just been released from prison.

Y'all are always very kind and encouraging to me, so I'm going to ask a little favor. I am facing a knotty problem, one that at times seems completely un-riddleable. I would deeply appreciate your prayers, that God would grant me wisdom and courage and strength. That's right, I am not made of steel. In fact, patches of rust are showing up & I would deeply appreciate y'all help.

Y'all enjoy your weekend!

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

— Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger

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Market Snapshot See more charts and market data
18-May-13 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,364.90 -22.20 -1.6
Silver, $/oz 22.34 -0.30 -1.3
Gold/Silver Ratio 61.099 -0.985 -1.6
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0164 -0.0002 -1.3
Platinum 1,468.00 -17.60 -1.2
Palladium 739.50 -0.50 -0.1
S&P 500 1,658.18 15.64 1.0
Dow 15,354.79 121.57 0.8
Dow in GOLD $s 232.55 5.56 2.4
Dow in GOLD oz 11.25 0.27 2.4
Dow in SILVER oz 687.35 14.60 2.2
US Dollar Index 84.28 0.53 0.6
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