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A friend pointed out to me to day that at the end of the calendar quarter, fund managers buy what has gone up and sell what's gone down, making themselves appear clairvoyant. Might be that they are unloading positions. Sounds more rational than most of the stuff I've heard.

Silver & gold fell overnight, beginning with big drops in Asia. Nice Government Men must be staying up late nights.

Here's another example of how irrational markets are behaving, & how irrationally the media interpret their irrationality. Stocks rose today -- allegedly -- on a downward revision of US GDP numbers from 2.4% to 1.8% Speaking of rationality, let's just muse a moment on how reliable ANY government numbers are. How could they miss GDP by 33%? "Oh, shucks! We left out New York, Montana, & Texas! Y'all go back & refigure that GDP, right now! Shame on you!"

How rational is it to base anything on numbers like that, when you know also the government regularly LIES?

Anyhow, when this news got to the stock market, according to media reports, stock investors concluded that lower economic performance means more Fed inflation (a.k.a., "easing"), so stocks jumped up. Why? Because they believe stocks' performance is tied to continued Fed easing. Perversely, that's true, since stocks are not reacting so much to economic fundamentals as they are to the rising tide of inflation from the Fed. Yet it's also NOT true, sine the inflation will only make the economic problems worse over the long run.

That brings us to the NEXT irrationality. If inflation is good for stocks, why isn't it good for silver & gold? In this case I feel qualified to say that ONLY inflation drives the prices of silver & gold. So how is it good for stocks but bad for silver & gold? Nuts. Insane.

But while they might be suppressed for a while by investor ignorance, manias, or government manipulations, eventually the fundamentals will wreak their vengeance. Watch for it.

Dow added 149.83 (1.02% today to 14,910.14. S&P500 augmented 15.23 (0.96%) to 1,603.26. This brings both indices back to the top of their downtrend channel. Significantly higher price would say the downtrend has ended, but they are more likely to bounce off that top trend line downward.

Dow in gold & Dow in silver both hit new highs today. Dow in gold closed 12.126 oz, up 0.547 oz or 4.73%. Dow in silver rose 46.25 oz (6.12%) to 802.18 oz.

US dollar index rose 28 basis points (0.36%) today to 82.955. Yen remains fairly flat against the dollar, closing up 0.05% at 102.27. Euro, on the other hand, closed below its 200 DMA today and is free falling. Lost 0.54% today & closed at $1.3012.

If gold and silver were both sleeping yesterday, they fell out of bed overnight. Gold tumbled $45.20 (3.55%) to $1,229.60 & silver lost 93.9 cents (4.81%) to 1858.7c.

Tumble took place before midnight this morning. Both silver & gold were basically flat all day. What I saw in gold was a $10 range, in silver 25 cents.

Silver has already lost more from its peak (68.2%) than it lost in 2008 (57.4%) Next support lies about 1750c. So has gold, 35% versus 30%. Following the seasonal pattern, if silver & gold don't stop here at the end of June or early July, it will be fall before they bottom.

People keep asking me where this will stop. I don't know where, I don't know when, I only know it will, unless the law of cause & effect has been repealed. Meantime, I sit &try to wax philosophical while bleeding. This looks more and more like 1974-1976, when gold lost 52%, then came back in the next four years to rise 8 times, and silver over 12 times.

History doesn't repeat, but it sure echoes.

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

— Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger

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26-Jun-13 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,229.60 -45.20 -3.55%
Silver, $/oz 18.59 -0.94 -4.81%
Gold/Silver Ratio 66.154 0.866 1.33%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0151 -0.0002 -1.31%
Platinum 1,303.70 21.40 1.67%
Palladium 631.70 11.05 1.78%
S&P 500 1,603.26 15.23 0.96%
Dow 14,910.14 149.83 1.02%
Dow in GOLD $s 250.67 11.32 4.73%
Dow in GOLD oz 12.13 0.55 4.73%
Dow in SILVER oz 802.18 46.25 6.12%
US Dollar Index 82.54 -0.08 -0.09%
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