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Gold traded in a $10 range today, silver in an 40¢ range, almost as exciting as a midnight morgue. Dollar index moved exactly one single basis point, down, to 94.49.

Ain't much to talk about. The Fed's on another jawboning spree to keep all markets off balance -- I know, I know, that don't make a lick of sense, but it's the Fed, so what do you expect? Thursday a vast amount of mental gas will be released when Yellen speaks at the Fed's Jackson Hole Conference.

Forget it, friends: the Fed is NOT going to save us.

Stocks today also stepped cautiously sidewise. Dow rose 17.88 (0.1%) to 18,547.30 while the S&P500 danced over 4.26 (up 0.2%) to 2,186.90.

Gold on Comex did rise $2.90 (0.2%) to $1,340.60. Silver added 6.7¢ to 1891¢.

Best thing I can say for gold is that it didn't break down. It also didn't close back within that triangle, or above the 20 DMA. While the Fed boogeyman haunts the market, gold won't settle any questions. If Yellen does her worst, it probably won't sink past $1,300, or $1,250 at the worst.

Silver's in the same rut as gold, but is liable to fall to 1800¢ support, maybe 1750¢ in a panic. Believe it or not, the correction has nearly run its course. Silver's RSI has come overbought in early July to 38.86 today, closer to oversold. MACD is about as low as it was the last correction bottom (early June). Of course, oversold can always get oversolder, but 'twill have to work hard at it.

Y'all will be relieved and comforted in your souls to find out that the mighty US government is acting even as you sit there doing nothing, you slouch, to deliver a suffering nation from a massive cheese glut. Although I have to work like a ferret in a deserted rat hole to find any edible cheese in an American grocery store, although Americans call Velveeta "cheese," apparently the whole country is stuffed to the gills with so much cheese that the US Department of Agriculture, whose job is to destroy agriculture, must buy 11 million pounds for $20 million.

Now try to grasp this. Not 15 miles from me my friends Jim and Gayle Tanner operate Bonnie Blue Farm, the only Grade A goat dairy in Tennessee. With ne'er a drap of gummint money or subsidy, they have built one of the finest dairy goat herds in the country, dug their own cheese cave, and made cheese so superb that they can't make enough of it! Restaurants and consumers are hollerin' to get their hands on Bonnie Blue cheeses, soft or aged, goat or cow.

Now what do Jim and Gayle know that the almighty yankee government don't know and can't figure out? I tell you this much: the word "Velveeta" ain't in their vocabulary. Neither is "subsidy." www.bonniebluefarm.com. And Bonnie Blue's cheese can stand shoulder to shoulder with anything made in Europe and shove back. Ain't no cheese glut in Wayne County.

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23-Aug-16 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,340.60 2.90 0.22%
Silver, $/oz 18.91 0.07 0.36%
Gold/Silver Ratio 70.894 -0.098 -0.14%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0141 0.0000 0.14%
Platinum 1,108.80 2.30 0.21%
Palladium 698.95 7.70 1.11%
S&P 500 2,186.20 4.26 0.20%
Dow 18,547.30 17.88 0.10%
Dow in GOLD $s 286.00 -0.34 -0.12%
Dow in GOLD oz 13.84 -0.02 -0.12%
Dow in SILVER oz 980.82 -2.54 -0.26%
US Dollar Index 94.49 -0.01 -0.01%
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