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If you aren't familiar with Fred Reed and his ruthless, witty honesty, you are leading a deprived life. Go read his piece, "King George Days: When We Were America." http://www.fredoneverything.net/KGReunion.shtml Be warned, there's some rough language. He & I were born the same year.

TODAY'S MARKETS:

Easiest thing in the world to do when things go against you is to panic -- throw your hands up in the air, whine & cry, spiral down by lamenting all the stuff you didn't see you should've seen and all the stuff you should have done but didn't do.

All that ain't worth spit in the ocean. Worse, it only makes you feel worse & keeps you from taking action. Worse yet, it makes you look like a coward & whiner, and nobody likes those. Besides, I'd hate to admit I'd been whupped by the likes of pudgy Janet Yellum & the socialist apparatchiki at the Federal Reserve.

Although for the moment it might seem that way. First thing you do when things go north is look around and ask if you've read them right. It is possible that what you are seeing right this instant is the WASH-OUT in silver & gold and blow-up in stocks & the US dollar. I won't know until we see how markets continue tomorrow.

The FOMC's announcement contained no hint of raising interest rates anytime soon, and emphasized that by mumble-mouthing about the labor market.

At first stocks foundered on the FOMC announcement, then, reasoning (if they reason) that Zero Interest Rates are good for stocks (they're not), they rose. Dow made a new high close at 17,156.85, up 24.88 or 0.15% but the S&P500 did not make a new high, rising only 2.59 (0.13%) to 2001.57. Both charts show what could be double tops, or a continuation higher.

Today took the Dow in silver to 925.15 oz (S$1,196.13 silver dollars) and the upper boundary of that rising wedge. Must stop here if it intends to stop. Dow in Gold broke through the December high (13.80 oz/G$285.28) to end up 1.09% at 14.02 oz (G$289.82).

The US dollar index rose 53 basis points to 84.75. Remains fabulously overbought and due for a correction. Maybe tomorrow? FOMC wrecked the yen, down 1.13% to 92.30c/Y100. Euro lost only 0.8% to $1.2859, right at the bottom of its recent range.

Most interesting & most paradoxical is the 10 year US treasury note yield ROSE today, by 0.42% to 2.600%. That carries it up into the triangle it broke out of, and above the downtrend's upper boundary. It broke out upside. On news the Fed isn't raising rates any time soon. I can't parse that.

Gold was holding steady until the FOMC report. It had closed Comex down only 80 cents to $1,234.40, but the announcement took it down another $10. Silver closed Comex higher by 7/10 cent to 1866.3.

Here's what's odd. The gold/silver ratio closed at 66.142, but in the aftermarket was trading lower, at 65.913. When a panic strikes it usually grips silver fiercer than gold, but not today. Silver's relative strength is a good sign -- no bigger than a cloud the size of a man's hand on the horizon, but a good sign.

Gold's break in the aftermarket tugs it down to the low of its recent range & then some. It's lustily oversold, but gives only the merest breath of a hint of turning up in the MACD.

In the aftermarket silver lost 10 cents to 1857, but didn't reach its recent low. Unless both silver & gold come to life tomorrow, then we'll have to endure yet more downside. "Come to life" means close higher, strikingly higher.

On 17 September 642 Arabs conquered Alexandria and destroyed the world famous library there.

On 17 September 1900 the Commonwealth of Australia was proclaimed.

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
17-Sep-14 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,234.40 -0.80 -0.06%
Silver, $/oz 18.66 0.01 0.04%
Gold/Silver Ratio 66.142 -0.068 -0.10%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0151 0.0000 0.10%
Platinum 1,363.70 -5.10 -0.37%
Palladium 838.80 -5.40 -0.64%
S&P 500 2,001.57 2.59 0.13%
Dow 17,156.85 24.88 0.15%
Dow in GOLD $s 287.32 0.60 0.21%
Dow in GOLD oz 13.90 0.03 0.21%
Dow in SILVER oz 919.30 0.99 0.11%
US Dollar Index 84.75 0.53 0.63%
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