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Y'all ought to remember that Wikipedia lies. Yea, whoever writes those articles -- and not a one of y'all knows who that is -- has an ax to grind & grinds away. Thus the fastidious rational mind, seeking to avoid the infection of the Establishment's propaganda & mind control, will question even the unquestionable Wikipedia.

Case in point is its entry on the recently deceased Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez who followed William Kelley's nutritional treatment for cancer. To read Wikipedia's article, you'd think Dr. Gonzalez had no success, although his records showed 68% efficacy of the method. The entry also asserts the method failed against pancreatic cancer in a randomized study, while in fact the National Cancer Institute's administrators sabotaged the study and did not follow the protocol. I know, because I interviewed Dr. Gonzalez about in in June 2012. Read that here, http://bit.ly/1MV4UFt

Note also that the website Quackwatch.com distorts the truth. If you want the truth, you'd better go somewhere other than Quackwatch or Wikipedia.

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TODAY'S MARKETS:

Do y'all know what a wonderful freedom it is to liberate yourself from hogwash? Think of all the goofs in the world who hang around their TV sets to see what are the latest words that drop like fetid liquid lard from the lips of Janet Yellen, believing their future depends on them. How utterly degrading, & how howlingly ridiculous! Mercy, Janet Yellen couldn't run a Louisiana snow-cone stand at a profit in August! What's the chance she and the rest of those Keynesian midgets will get the whole US economy right, let alone interest rates?

Yet the mind control persists. Press conference after press conference, month after month, she says the same thing, and markets react -- for a day or maybe two. Folks, the magic don't work any more. She's just a pitiful, flabby old woman pretending to be a Mistress of the Universe. I have better things to do than listen to that stuff. I've got a sock drawer that needs re-arranging.

Gold bumped up after the FOMC announcement, but traded right back down. Closed Comex down $3.60 at 1,092.60. Silver added 10.3 cents to 1473.4c.

Welcome to limbo, where nothing is ever resolved and all decisions are avoided & all verbs in the passive so you can't tell who's acting. Still, there was no weakness in today's silver & gold charts, and a spirited defense against an attempt to drive them down about noon.

We're stuck at the same place: gold & silver must hold $1,090 and 1440c and on the upside must hurdle over $1,100 & 1500c to begin a rally, and $1,140 and 1550c to prove one. Tomorrow?

Dow climbed 121.12 (0.69%) to 17,751.39 on another veinful of government heroin, i.e., the Fed's worn-out promise to raise interest rates some day, but not yet. S&P climbed 15.32 (0.73) to 2,108.57. Wow. Dow almost climbed through its 200 DMA.

US dollar index scarfed up 21 basis points & closed at 97.08, barely above the 20 DMA. Euro dropped 0.69% to $1.0985 and the yen 0.23% to 80.68. Nothing happening there, dollar still riding the downdraft, despite today's higher close.

Y'all go home tonight and do something really important. Kiss your wife or husband & children & squeeze 'em and enjoy the presence of love and peace -- and ignore blathering, lardy bureaucrats.

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29-Jul-15 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,092.60 -3.60 -0.33%
Silver, $/oz 14.73 0.10 0.70%
Gold/Silver Ratio 74.155 -0.768 -1.03%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0135 0.0001 1.04%
Platinum 984.40 -3.40 -0.34%
Palladium 614.60 -6.00 -0.97%
S&P 500 2,108.57 15.32 0.73%
Dow 17,751.39 121.12 0.69%
Dow in GOLD $s 335.85 3.39 1.02%
Dow in GOLD oz 16.25 0.16 1.02%
Dow in SILVER oz 1,204.79 -0.20 -0.02%
US Dollar Index 97.08 0.21 0.22%
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French 20 franc 0.19 206.05 210.05 1,125.04
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VG+ Peace dollar 0.77 18.50 21.00 27.45
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US 40% silver 1/2s 0.30 4,165.40 4,315.40 14.63
100 oz .999 bar 100.00 1,467.00 1,517.00 15.17
10 oz .999 bar 10.00 146.70 152.20 15.22
1 oz .999 round 1.00 14.87 15.37 15.37
Am Eagle, 200 oz Min 1.00 16.27 17.12 17.12
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