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Offering another sterling example how government regulation protects you, over 58 years (Kummerow, 1957) after non-political scientists began pointing out the dangers of trans-fats, the Food and Drug Administration ordered food manufacturers to remove transfats from their products -- within three years.

Although it was first produced in 1911, partially hydrogenated vegetable oils -- Crisco, for example -- only began to replace lard and butter in American usage after World War II. Anyone with taste buds who has ever tasted butter or anything cooked with lard knows that partially hydrogenated vegetable oil can NEVER replace them in fact. It was cheap, so it must be good, right? Nope. Turns out it harms your body in all sorts of ways, causing diabetes, artery hardening, obesity, heart attacks, strokes, dementia, inflammation, & cancer. Yum, yum, must be good for you if the FDA never banned it. Whoops, they never sufficiently tested it either, just like Genetically Modified Organisms.

Whoops, lard and butter, along with eggs, are exactly what the medical establishment has demonized for decades. Lately they backed off, too. Turns out your body needs those fats after all. Sorry you're dead.

Listen, the very best thing you can do for your health is to eat a wholesome, unprocessed diet with plenty of raw milk, cream, cheese, eggs, liver, meat, cod liver oil, seafood and other nutrient dense foods. Best place for you to start is Weston A Price Foundation, www.westonaprice.org. Dive into their website and read. Then find you a local farmer where you can buy nutrient-dense foods directly, where you know what goes into your food and the producer's integrity. Go look him in the eye. First step, Know Your Farmer. Next step, Buy Local.

Here's a link to an article about how ordinary Greeks are coping with the threats of their government's insolvency: http://bit.ly/1GfEvNa How do they respond? By pulling money out of the banks. Only one mentions buying gold, none silver, which would be eminently more useful than gold in a financial crisis.

Banks & governments can turn off your access to your own money without any warning. Then you're stuck, and at their mercy. If you can, always try to keep three month's cash needs somewhere you have 24 hour access to it, even if you have to build in a safe at your home. It's the same principle as how to stay out of bar fights: leave the bar before the fight begins. Leave the bank before the crisis begins.

Following precedent, Janet Yellen & her Committee of Monetary Midgets blew hot and cold out of both sides of their mouths. Yes, we are going to raise interest rates buuuuuuuuuut not quite yet. Merciful heavens, how long do we have to put up with this idiocy? Where are lightning bolts when you need them?

Bottom line: no interest rate increase yet, nor is one in sight without a radiotelescope.

Dollar index took that news on the chin and fell down the stairs and out the door, down, down, down 77 basis points (0.81%) to 94.49. Did not, however, make a new low for the move, but got within a single skinny basis point. Bad day, but don't count it out yet. Needs to crash below 94.30 to confirm, and really I'd like to see it below 93.15.

Euro bathed its feet in the dollar's blood. Rose 0.79% to $1.1339. No breakout, just higher than it as yesterday, needs to conquer $1.1500 to strut. Yen lost 0.4% to 81.03. Shorter maturity notes yields fell where longer term (30 year) rose because the Fed allowed it would keep on buying loads of 'em.

The Greeks are playing guts ball with those squishy Eurocrats, going nose to nose without a blink. They may get away with it -- for a while. But whatever happens, the banks will not lose, you can bet your cheap politician on that.

At Comex close gold was lower by $4.10 at $1,176.40 while silver had lost 1.8 cents to 1594c. As I write in the aftermarket silver is trading at 1611c and gold at $1,185.20.

During the day gold and silver were flat and still as a roadkilled cat, hugging $1,180 & 1600c. About 12:30 Eastern gold dropped below $1,175, traded sideways until Yellen's bellin', then about 3:00 everybody changed his mind and started buying. That ran gold up as high as $1,189 & silver to 1627.4c, but they have since calmed down.

It's always a strong sign when a market under pressure by events and price touches a new low for the move or a relative low then bounces back at day's end. That's what silver & gold did today. Also the gold/silver ratio appears to be rolling over downward. The Gold/ US dollar index spread popped up, clean above its 50 AND its 20 day moving averages. Chart's here, http://schrts.co/lEHI64

These execrable FOMC days always confuse markets, but silver & gold came out of this one like a Labrador coming up out of a freezing pond, shaking the water off their backs & looking for the next duck to hunt.

On 17 June 1631 Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spent more than 20 years building her tomb, the Taj Mahal.

Argentum et aurum comparanda sunt —
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— Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger

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17-Jun-15 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,176.40 -4.10 -0.35%
Silver, $/oz 15.94 -0.02 -0.11%
Gold/Silver Ratio 73.802 -0.174 -0.23%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0135 0.0000 0.24%
Platinum 1,072.40 -7.10 -0.66%
Palladium 720.30 -12.45 -1.70%
S&P 500 2,100.44 4.15 0.20%
Dow 17,935.74 31.25 0.17%
Dow in GOLD $s 315.17 1.64 0.52%
Dow in GOLD oz 15.25 0.08 0.52%
Dow in SILVER oz 1,125.20 3.23 0.29%
US Dollar Index 94.49 -0.77 -0.81%
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