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I sort of miss the 18th century. Oh, not the Revolution part at the century's end, but the earlier part. Governments didn't meddle in all your least affairs & tell you how much water you could use to flush your toilet & what lightbulbs to use & try to steal everything from you. Government was usually a carousing, womanizing king who pretty much stuck to his business & left everybody else alone, unless he was French and stealing from the public at a pretty heady tax rate. You could give you allegiance to a country like that where government minded its own business & let you mind yours, taxed just enough, hung highwaymen & malefactors at the city gates, and when they waged war never had armies larger than 7,000 or 8,000, didn't tear up the turf, and strictly left non- combatants alone.

Take George III for example, probably the most upright king England ever had. Never took a mistress, stayed to same wife all his wife and had 15 children by her. He stuck to his science and his farming, left government to his ministers.

Makes you sort or teary-eyed for the good old days, don't it.

Today marks the sixth anniversary of the stock market's advance. That makes it one of the longest-lived in history. Dow bottomed 9 March 2009 at 6,547.05 and &S&P same day at 676.53. It will stand as a historical monument to what central bank money creation can do all by itself, without a single shred or particle of economic backing. S&P500 just a tad overvalued at 27 times earnings. Mercy. Gonna hurt when the bubble pops.

US dollar index backed off 4 basis points to 97.63. All else quiet.

Gold rose $2.30 to $1,166.40, on a scintillating range of $6.40 from high to low. Silver fell 2.9 cents to 1575.5c out of a 20 cent range, 1596 - 1570c.

Might as well not have come to work today. No change, silver & gold still bumping bottom. If they don't catch her and turn up, then we have to reckon with further downside.

But give 'em a couple of days. What I wrote Friday stands: looks like a buying climax on the US dollar was driving things, and that ought to turn around.

But I reckon I oughtn't overlook the black magic power of Money Creation.

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
9-Mar-15 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,166.40 2.30 0.20%
Silver, $/oz 15.76 -0.03 -0.18%
Gold/Silver Ratio 74.034 0.282 0.38%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0135 -0.0001 -0.38%
Platinum 1,149.70 -10.20 -0.88%
Palladium 822.60 -4.55 -0.55%
S&P 500 2,079.43 8.17 0.39%
Dow 17,995.72 138.94 0.78%
Dow in GOLD $s 318.93 1.84 0.58%
Dow in GOLD oz 15.43 0.09 0.58%
Dow in SILVER oz 1,142.22 10.90 0.96%
US Dollar Index 97.63 -0.04 -0.04%
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GOLD Fine Tr.Oz. BID ASK $/oz
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Aust. 100 corona 0.98 1,135.52 1,144.52 1,167.64
British sovereign 0.24 276.96 281.96 1,197.80
French 20 franc 0.19 219.66 223.66 1,197.98
Krugerrand 1.00 1,181.81 1,191.81 1,191.81
Maple Leaf 1.00 1,175.80 1,192.80 1,192.80
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SILVER Fine Tr.Oz. BID ASK $/oz
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VG+ Peace dollar 0.77 19.00 22.00 28.76
90% silver coin bags 0.72 11,979.83 12,337.33 17.26
US 40% silver 1/2s 0.30 4,441.23 4,591.23 15.56
100 oz .999 bar 100.00 1,560.50 1,620.50 16.21
10 oz .999 bar 10.00 162.05 163.05 16.31
1 oz .999 round 1.00 15.81 16.31 16.31
Am Eagle, 200 oz Min 1.00 17.21 18.01 18.01
SPOT PLATINUM: 1,149.70      
PLATINUM Fine Tr.Oz. BID ASK $/oz
Plat. Platypus 1.00 1,164.70 1,194.70 1,194.70
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