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Now I ain't no more'n a nacheral born fool from Tennessee but when I saw this headline, "EU offers Ukraine $15 billion over 7 years to avert default," my little pea-brain fell a-working. Friend of mine once told me when you don't understand what was going on, you jus' FOLLOW THE MONEY.

So, what is Ukraine gonna default on? Bonds, I reckon. And who likely owns them bonds? Banks, I reckon. So if I follow this money-trail like any good tracking dog, I tree a banker! The EU is offering to bail out the banks so they can give in to Putin and keep the gas flowing under Ukraine to Berlin, Brussels, & Paris. But folks, this ain't "working for whirled peas," this is just another sample of bailing out the banks, the real rulers of our world.

Ain't y'all glad that y'all have the honor of keepin' them bankers up in the style they're used to? Hey, pass them collards, Mama! We can't afford no fatback in 'em cause the bankers need caviar.

On Wall Street today sobriety broke out. Dow continues to lag and lost 35.7 (0.22%) to 16,360.18. S&P500 lost only 0.1 (0.01%) to 1,873.81. (Who could tell?) Several cycles point to tomorrow as a turning day, so watch out.

With stocks inching down and silver & gold inching up, the Dow in Metals backed off today. Yesterday's rise in the Dow in Gold took it to the downtrend line & above the 20 DMA, but today it fell away and ended below the 20 DMA at 12.19 oz (G$251.99 gold dollars), down 0.66%. I'm still bracing for reaction rally, but may be disappointed if stocks peak or turn down tomorrow, as I expect.

Dow in Silver dropped 0.31% or 2.42 oz to 771.89 oz. It remains above its 20 DMA but a long ways below it downtrend line.

The flakey US Dollar Index lost 3 basis points (0.04%) to 80.14. In spite of hopeful economic statistics today, the euro dropped 0.06 to $1.3733. In the last four months the euro has painted the chart with double peaks at $1.3847 and $1.3824. Looks like their banks need more subsidies. Yen keeps moving sideways. Lost 0.08% today & ended at 97.71 cents/Y100, sliding beneath its 20 DMA.

Silver gained 5.1 cents to close Comex at 2123.9c. Gold gained $2.40 and ended at $1,340.20.

I can't make up my mind any more than silver & gold can how far a correction might go. Gold's MACD is about to signal "sell" and silver's already has. Stochastics are rolling over downward. All that suggests the reaction has started, but tells us nothing about how long or how far it will carry. In any event, almost all the evidence argues that the lows are behind us with the double bottom seen as December ended. Thus the next big move should be up.

Sometimes I wonder why I bother trying to figure all this out. After all, the END is sure. History teaches -- and whales the tar out of those who won't learn -- that fiat money schemes always end catastrophically. Why do Americans think they are the exception? Because we grow such clever central bankers? Because we're so nice? Because we have Dancing with the Stars? None of that changes the iron laws of reality, and the iron law is that creating money out of thin air ends catastrophically.

On 5 March 1904 the inventor, electrical & mechanical engineer, and genius Nikola Tesla described the process of ball lightning formation. You quickly run out of superlatives describing Tesla. Born of Serbian parents in 1856, Tesla had a photographic memory, & could perform integral calculus in his head. His teachers thought he was cheating. He attended university, but never graduated. After considerable experience in electrical engineering, he moved in 1884 to New York City, where he went to work for Thomas Edison. Later he quit when Edison welched on a promise.

Tesla set up his own company and eventually invented the alternating current motor. Although the entire world operates today on alternating current, at that time direct current held sway. Although safer than AC, DC could not be transmitted over long distances. Edison later went to a war over which form of current would dominate, and sent his agents around the country electrocuting cats & dogs by AC to prove how dangerous AC was. Eventually he lost.

I don't have space to list even part of Tesla's inventions. Sadly Tesla's later life was lived in obscurity and poverty. About 1900 he became involved with the banker JP Morgan, who many say, later ruined him. He was working on wireless transmission of electricity.

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5-Mar-14 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,340.20 2.40 0.18%
Silver, $/oz 21.24 0.05 0.24%
Gold/Silver Ratio 63.101 -0.039 -0.06%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0158 0.0000 0.06%
Platinum 1,476.00 12.80 0.87%
Palladium 72.65 8.95 14.05%
S&P 500 1,873.81 -0.01 -0.00%
Dow 16,360.18 -35.70 -0.22%
Dow in GOLD $s 252.35 -1.00 -0.40%
Dow in GOLD oz 12.21 -0.05 -0.40%
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US Dollar Index 80.14 -0.03 -0.04%
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