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This morning I blew coffee all over my steering wheel, dashboard, and windshield when I heard the communist announcer (sorry, that's a redundancy) report that new Labor Department regulation setting standards for investment advice ("Fiduciary Rule") said that it would "cut costs and increase efficiency."

Lay aside momentarily the issue of administrative law and executive agencies making law instead of the legislature. That's a bottomless affront to self-government, but not what I am foaming at the mouth about.

Get out your stone tablets and chisel & carve thereupon these words: "The purpose of ALL regulation is to stifle competition." All means "all."

By its nature government regulation must increase costs and decrease efficiency, simply by forcing markets to do what they don't want to do. Left to themselves, markets will eventually flow into the lowest cost, most efficient streambed. ALL regulation builds a dam across that stream.

The communists in government and National Proletarian Radio really have nothing but scorn for us if they throw buckets of hogwash like that in our faces & expect us to believe it. Mercy.

Federal Reserve published FOMC minutes today & after the market read the guts of the rats (much like the ancient Roman haruspex would read the guts of a sheep or cow to tell the future, but not as edifying) it decided it was good news & the Fed wouldn't raise rates any time soon. Dow rose 112.73 (0.64%) to 17,716.05. S&P500 added 21.49 or 1.05% for a 2,066.66 close.

Changes nothing in the technical picture. Lower high with lower low. Defines a downtrend. Shortly, shortly the wailing & tooth-gnashing will pierce the skies over Wall Street.

US dollar index, also thanks to FOMC minutes, stumbled 17 basis points (0.18%) to end at 94.46. Minutely that puts the dollar index below the downtrend line from March 2015. Too minute to count as a breakdown. Important point in any event, point below which the dollar index must not fall, is 92.50.

Yen today shot up 0.51% to 91.11. Rallying. Euro lost 0.11% to $1.1397.

Gold lost $5.90 to close Comex at $1,222.50. Silver eased back 6.2¢ to 1505.2¢. Gold/silver ratio at Comex close was 81.218:1.

I am unrepentant: I would still swap gold for silver at this high ratio, targeting a fall below 32:1 within the next three years.

Look at a different gold chart, this one: http://schrts.co/RngcC9

Gold has traded in a range (bounded by the blue lines) since the July 2013 low and the August 2013 high. This February's breakout took told through that upper boundary. Now gold has come back ot the line for a final kiss good-bye. That explains its stubbornness holding on above $1,220. It would look an awfully lot better for gold not to break that line. Awfully.

Remember that uptrend line from the January low and the 50 day moving average are practically running together right now.

Laggard silver has little to say to us, except that it continues to hold on above its 200 DMA (now 1489¢). A drop to 1460¢ remains possible.

I am looking for this correction to end by this Friday or the next, latest.

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
6-Apr-16 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,222.50 -5.90 -0.48%
Silver, $/oz 15.05 -0.06 -0.41%
Gold/Silver Ratio 81.218 -0.057 -0.07%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0123 0.0000 0.07%
Platinum 942.90 -7.10 -0.75%
Palladium 539.70 -7.35 -1.34%
S&P 500 2,066.66 21.49 1.05%
Dow 17,716.05 112.73 0.64%
Dow in GOLD $s 299.57 3.34 1.13%
Dow in GOLD oz 14.49 0.16 1.13%
Dow in SILVER oz 1,176.99 12.29 1.05%
US Dollar Index 94.46 -0.17 -0.18%
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