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Hey! Y'all remember the Greek crisis. Now reach back in your memory, because it's been a full thre emonths since it was in the headlines. Well, today the Greek leiglature is poised to approve some of the changes demanded by their creditors so they will release the first loan installment on its bailout.

I offer this merely as an example of how Our Masters handle the financial crises that mushroom out of their system. (I leave off the adjective, since I can't now think of any non-scatalogical one.) Nothing has been fixed, nothing has been reformed, nothing has been changed. The Greek people are still being raped to pay off the banks, but Our Masters are off the hook because the public's meager attention span long ago left the Greek crisis behind. They really did talk it to death.

US dollar index advanced again today, 8 basis points (0.8%) to 98.11. Last little test this rise faces is to best the 98.43 August high. After that the world will be victimized by a long dollar rally.

Euro yesterday broke support reaching back to May, promising a further large drop. Ended today up 0.12% to $1.0880.

Yen today broke support stretching back to August. Closed 82.15, down 0.13%. Break is tee-tiny and needs confirming by lower closes.

Stocks millimetered down. Dow lost 4.15 (0.02%) to 17,863.43. S&P500 backed up 2.38 (0.11%) to 2,099.93. Clearly having trouble punching thru the bottom of that upside-down bowl.

Gold lost $2.10 & closed Comex at $1,104.4. Silver coughed up 7.5 cents to 1498.8c.

Sorry -- that's all you can call it. You'd imagine that after nine down days running, gold would show some little twitch of strenght. You'd be wrong. About the only amazing thing is that it has broken through support at the uptrend line from the August low but not yet cascaded lower. Either that means support at $1,100 is strong, or a cascade awaits in its future.

Silver's done the same thing, only slower.

Although stocks are hinting they might turn down, neither silver nor gold has given any sign it wants to do anythning but fall more.

Times like this, I just have to possess my soul with patience, sure that the laws of economic & monetary gravity have not been perpetually repealed.

"Remember, remember, the fifth of November/Gunpowder, treason, & plot!" The English holiday today, Guy Fawkes Day, commemorates the exposure of the 1604 Gunpowder Plot to blow up parliament. The plotters were captured and tortured. They were all Roman Catholics trying to replace a Protestant government, so their Plot would tar English Roman Catholics for roughly the next 200 years with various civil & religious disabilities.

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5-Nov-15 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,104.40 -2.10 -0.19%
Silver, $/oz 14.99 -0.08 -0.50%
Gold/Silver Ratio 73.686 0.227 0.31%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0136 -0.0000 -0.31%
Platinum 952.40 -1.70 -0.18%
Palladium 606.10 -17.10 -2.74%
S&P 500 2,099.93 -2.38 -0.11%
Dow 17,863.43 -4.15 -0.02%
Dow in GOLD $s 334.36 0.56 0.17%
Dow in GOLD oz 16.17 0.03 0.17%
Dow in SILVER oz 1,191.85 5.66 0.48%
US Dollar Index 98.11 0.08 0.08%
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British sovereign 0.24 261.95 267.95 1,138.27
French 20 franc 0.19 207.76 211.76 1,134.21
Krugerrand 1.00 1,116.65 1,126.65 1,126.65
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VG+ Peace dollar 0.77 20.00 22.00 28.76
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US 40% silver 1/2s 0.30 4,222.93 4,472.93 15.16
100 oz .999 bar 100.00 1,521.50 1,546.50 15.47
10 oz .999 bar 10.00 151.15 156.15 15.62
1 oz .999 round 1.00 15.07 15.62 15.62
Am Eagle, 200 oz Min 1.00 16.47 17.67 17.67
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