Well, it looks like Mama Janet Yellen & the rest of them educated fools on the FOMC (Stands for Fools Orchestrating Monetary Chaos) are fixin' tomorrow to hit a hornet's nest with a short stick. I'm not sure even that lot is plumb stupid enough to raise interest rates, but you'd go broke quick betting against the stupidity of academics. If they raise that rate, they'll kill the stock market graveyard dead. Course, they'll kill the economy graveyard dead if they don't. They're just like a fool playing with a two-headed snake, they don't know which side he'll bite 'em on, but he'll bite 'em, sure enough. Markets are dead as a road-killed possum, waiting for our silly would-be Masters of the Universe to pronounce their decision. Nothings moving except stocks & the dollar, & they are betting on no raise. Dow took on 228.89 (1.40%) to end at 16,599.85. Hot dog! Closed above the 20 DMA, but not above the top of the pennant. In plain English, ain't done nothing but burn up buying power. S&P500 rose 25.06 (1.28%) to 1,978.09. Today is probably about as good as it gets for stocks, living on hope. But whether they tumble tomorrow or next week, the top is behind us while the abyss yawns before. Speculators are betting the FOMC will raise rates (I'm guessing) & so the dollar index rose 35 basis points (0.36%) to 95.76. That peeks the dollar's head above the 20 Dma (95.64) but leaves the downtrend untouched. I read a clever article yesterday listing all the reasons the Fed shouldn't raise interest rates. One of the most eyecatching was that a rise will raise the dollar's value & set off a stampede out of other currencies, and other bond and stock markets, into the dollar in a self-reinforcing cycle driving the dollar higher & higher. Which head of that snake did you say you wanted to bite you? In Treasuries, on the other hand, the 10 year note's yield jumped up 4.63%, which means the note price fell, which suggests speculators in treasuries expect the Fed will raise rates & drive bond prices down. Or maybe they think the faeries are going to start issuing bonds. People are so durned crazy today you can't front run 'em. Gold traded in a squintzy leetle $7 range today and fell $5.10 on the Comex to $1,102.80. Silver dropped 3.8 cents to 1431.9 cents. Gold's little drop did not carry it through the uptrend line from the July low, so I'm satisfied. Bound to be muted when the FOMC pronunciamento loometh overhead. Silver during the day punched into its lower support line, but at the end of the day closed slap on it. I won't presume to guess which way the Fed will flop. I will only observe that it won't impress the economy & the stock market as much as a tuxedo impresses a Rhode Island red rooster. Whatever they do, besides closing their doors & keeping their dadburn academic fatfingers off the economy, they will only make things worse. It don't do no good to say it, altho Southerners have been saying it for over 150 years to yankee do-gooders who won't be satisfied till they re-make us in their own image, but I will say it anyway: We just want to be left alone. Don't fix our economy, don't fix the monetary system, don't tell me how much water my toilet can flush, what kind of light bulbs to use, or what to charge for cabbages. I can handle those decisions. Just leave us alone. But that's just the one thing the whole dadburn do-gooding mob can't do, is leave you alone. They got to make you better. I'm just as good right now as I am ever gonna get or want to be, and I don't need no Federal Reserve or federal government or state or city government (for that matter) making me better. Y'all just leave me alone, and I'll be happy. Just get out of my way, & I'll stay out of your'n. 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