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I promised my wife I'd be on time today & she's going to hit me upside the head with a big stick if I'm late, so I'll make this short.

First, I am baffled by gold today. One of the analytical services I receive sent a special message yesterday about the sudden rise in Commercial Short positions in the Commitments of Traders Reports. Generally Commercials are the "smart money", and when they short, you can prepare your heart (& pocketbook) for a drop. Silver's CoT Commercial Shorts grew even more than gold's.

But in the face of that Gold rose $2.80 to close at $1,321.80, and that Comex close looks like a Potemkin Close because immediately after the close gold shot through $1,326 and remains at $1327.90 in the aftermarket. Painting the tape, Nice Government Men?

Silver gainsaid gold by losing 7 cents to close at 2100.7c. What do I not like about silver? That flag on the chart that looks like it is rising, which is a bearish sign. And it's as overbought as a pretty girl's cake at a county fair bake sale. But if it closes above 2150c, it'll fly.

US dollar index is pushing gold up. It lost 26 basis points to 79.81, down 0.33%. Drop started about 10:30 a.m. and breaks through the old downtrending channel line, and support around 80, and the 50 DMA, and it's just a wretched mess. Will sink further, as witness the rising Euro (up 0.32% to $1.3692 & above its 200 DMA & the Yen at 98.69, above its 200 DMA but up only 0.05%.

Stocks finished down on the day but up for the month. Dow lost 25.25 (0.15%) to 16,826.60 while the S&P500 shaved off 0.73 (0.04%) to 1,960.23. Dow in gold and Dow in silver both fell today. At least that indicator isn't welching on us.

Y'all have mercy, my wife is pulling up! Watch for gold tomorrow. A close above $1,331 carries it aabove those COT worries for a while.

On 30 June 1572 Great Britain passed a Poor Law, supposedly giving assistance to the poor who were unemployed or vagrant, but actually starting a long tradition of treating poverty as a crime and the poor as criminals. Many of the vagrant poor in England at that time had been driven off the land by enclosure, fencing off formerly common lands by the wealthy to raise sheep for the wool trade. Of course, the wrongheaded source of the entire problem is shifting responsiiblity of caring for the poor from the Church & communities to the State. Everybody knows already how gentle the State is, just all warm & fuzzy all the time. Go apply for food stamps and check it out.

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30-Jun-14 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,319.00 2.60 0.20%
Silver, $/oz 21.08 -0.03 -0.15%
Gold/Silver Ratio 62.580 0.215 0.34%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0160 -0.0001 -0.34%
Platinum 1,481.00 2.50 0.17%
Palladium 843.55 0.30 0.04%
S&P 500 1,960.23 -0.73 -0.04%
Dow 16,826.60 -25.24 -0.15%
Dow in GOLD $s 263.71 -0.92 -0.35%
Dow in GOLD oz 12.76 -0.04 -0.35%
Dow in SILVER oz 798.34 -0.02 -0.00%
US Dollar Index 79.81 -0.26 -0.32%
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