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Stock rally gets thinner and thinner, and so does the precious metals' plunge. But I reckon they can get thinner still.

While I'm thinking about it, the euro, scrofulous spawn of centralizing central banks & bureaucrats, has been dropping since 8 May, nearly a month with ne'er a rally. More, everybody in the world expects the ECB criminals to announce more inflation one way or another. In other words, once the ECB news hits Thursday, the euro might undergo a "sell the rumor/buy the news" rally. The euro's trend against the dollar has turned down, but a rally would burn the shorts and send them running, which would boost the euro. It closed today up 0.21% to $1.3627, but that's still below its 200 day moving average.

Can y'all even IMAGINE how much money, mind power, & productive capacity is wasted merely on currency exchange rates? If the world had only two monies, gold and silver, as it did for 6,000 years until 125 years ago, all of that ink, thought, and talk could be applied to some useful purpose, like indicting and trying central bankers.

US Dollar index backed up 8 big basis points (0.1%) to 80.60 after yesterday's 80.73 high. Trading up one day and down two. It remains, however, above its moving averages (200 is at 80.47) and above the downtrend line, so lazy as it is, remains in an uptrend and should rise further. Japanese yen dropped 0.16% to 97.54. Broke down yesterday below its uptrend line, but remains in the same range that has imprisoned it since February.

All stock indices fell today, but not decisively. Dow lost 21.29 or 0.13%, S&P500 eased off 0.73 to 1,924.24. Miss not that the bluer chip indices are rising faster than the others as risk appetite decreases and investors roll over to what they consider "safer" stocks. That does not foretell sharply higher prices.

Dow measured in metals backed off today but 'tis all sound & fury, signifying nothing -- yet. Just be patient.

Be still, my beating heart! Gold rose sixty cents today (not fifty-nine, but sixty) while silver rose 2.3 cents, an amount no self-respecting person would bend over to pick up off the sidewalk if he saw it lying there. Gold ended at $1,244.30 and silver at 1873.2 cents.

By the way, Commitment of Traders reports show that gold dropped last week not due to longs selling, but huge new short positions. Nothing new there.

I expect gold will turn around either from here or between here and $1,230. Silver could re-visit its June 2013 lows. The last week has done a lot of damage to silver & gold, and delayed a rally further.

Makes no difference how long this drags out, it won't be much longer now. Sometimes, it seems, things take longer than they do.

Whenever things seem to work out illogically, I go back and check my premise, which is, INFLATION DRIVES GOLD & SILVER BULL MARKETS. Fed creates inflation for government spending & to keep the borrow-money-into- existence money system going. So if y'all are worried about silver & gold, get on the internet & look up the answers to these questions:

1. Has the US Federal Reserve been abolished? Are there any plans to abolish it?

2. Has the US government balanced its budget? Is there any plan to balance it?

3. Where does one-half of US GDP arise? Hint: Government spending.

4. Does any statesman appear anywhere with plan & resolve to abolish the Fed or curtail government spending, let alone restore sound money?

5. Can pigs fly?

Once you've completed that research, you'll understand why I remain so bullish on silver & gold.

On 3 June 1539 Hernando de Soto claimed Florida for Spain. Moments later hundreds of boats loaded with land developers hit the shores.

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

— Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger

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3-Jun-14 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,244.30 0.60 0.05%
Silver, $/oz 18.73 0.02 0.12%
Gold/Silver Ratio 66.426 -0.050 -0.07%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0151 0.0000 0.07%
Platinum 1,435.50 -3.20 -0.22%
Palladium 83.62 4.15 5.22%
S&P 500 1,924.24 -0.73 -0.04%
Dow 16,722.34 -21.29 -0.13%
Dow in GOLD $s 277.81 -0.49 -0.18%
Dow in GOLD oz 13.44 -0.02 -0.18%
Dow in SILVER oz 892.72 -2.24 -0.25%
US Dollar Index 80.60 -0.08 -0.10%
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