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Two centuries ago an English chief justice lamented that a corporation had "no body to kick and no soul to damn," which pretty well puts them beyond the reach of justice. Good thing he's dead -- he'd choke sure enough if he saw what these "juridical persons" do today.

Miss not my point. A "corporation" is a legal fiction, a mythical entity created to dodge liability. A corporation is people. It can't lift its fictional hand unless some real, live human lifts the hand for it. And today corporations are employed to dodge liabilities civil & criminal, especially for big banks & Wall Street felons-on-the-loose. Think: How can a mythical being commit a crime? Not possible. Some PERSON did it & hides behind the guilty corporation.

Thus today JPMorgan Chase agreed to cough up $2.6 billion dollars in penalties criminal & civil for its part in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme.

But who cares? None of the human beings who were acting as JP Morgan Chase paid anything -- JPMC's stockholders paid it. Nor did anyone in management with oversight responsibility go to jail. Ne'er a one.

When they make me dictator, first thing I'll do is not kill all the lawyers but kill all the corporations. At least it will be a bloodless revolution, since corporations can't bleed.

Gold lost $8.40 to $1,229.40 and silver lost 31.2 cents to close Comex at 1976.5c. All's lost? Not quite. Both managed to close above their 20 day moving averages. Both silver & gold are knocking on resistance at their 50 DMAs, so this back-&-fill is to be expected. Once again, as long as silver doesn't close below 1940c and gold doesn't close below $1,195, uptrend remains intact.

Stocks had their first up day this year. Dow gained 105.84 (0.64%) & S&P500 climbed 11.11 (0.66%) to 1,837.88. Hard to tell yet, but chart still appears headed down. Today's highs were only lower highs.

Metal's drop took the Dow in Gold & Dow in Silver up a tad. Dow in Gold rose 1.13% to 13.43 oz against a 20 DMA at 13.27 oz. Dow in silver ended at 833.42 oz above a 20 DMA at 819.43. Whew. This is enough to wear anybody out.

As I suspected, the US dollar index came back today, gaining 23 basis points (0.28%) to clsoe above 81 at a finger-nail hanging 81.01. Clearly it has broken out, with four days above the downtrend line and 50 & 20 DMAs to prove it. Obvious target is 83.

Euro sank at the dollar's good fortune. Lost 0.15% to $1.3615. 'Tis literally hanging over the edge of a cliff. Close below $1.3580 cuts its rope.

Yen backed off 0.41% to close 95.49 cents/Y100. Broke through the downtrend line yesterday, so intends to rise further, I'd say.

Clearly it's crucial for silver & gold to hold on above those 20 DMAs & preserve gains made so far this year -- and to improve them.

I always want to point y'all to the most important things happening in the world, but tonight I face a terrible dilemma. Should I mention Janet Yellen's confirmation by the Senate to succeed Burglar Ben Bernanke as head criminal at the Fed, or the looming Velveeta shortage? First things first. Right here at the year's most important Velveeta season, with a string of college bowl games, NFL playoff games, and the Superbowl coming, the nation is running short of Velveeta, the sine que non of dips without number! Somebody should tell Bernard O'Bama to release all that stockpiled Government Cheese or we'll have the worst Dip Crisis in American history! Where will all the dips do without their cheese?

Whole country's falling apart.

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
7-Jan-14 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,229.40 -8.40 -0.68%
Silver, $/oz 19.77 -0.31 -1.55%
Gold/Silver Ratio 62.201 0.548 0.89%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0161 -0.0001 -0.88%
Platinum 1,412.70 2.20 0.16%
Palladium 740.80 7.30 1.00%
S&P 500 1,837.88 11.11 0.61%
Dow 16,530.94 105.84 0.64%
Dow in GOLD $s 277.96 3.65 1.33%
Dow in GOLD oz 13.45 0.18 1.33%
Dow in SILVER oz 836.37 18.27 2.23%
US Dollar Index 81.01 0.23 0.28%
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