"Upon a high throne I saw a man sitting,
Whom a multitude of angels adore,
singing in unison:
'Behold Him, the name of Whose empire is forever.
Sing joyfully to God, all you lands;
serve the Lord with gladness.'
Upon a high throne I saw a man sitting,
Whom a multitude of angels adore,
singing in unison:
'Behold Him, the name of Whose empire is forever.'"
"Now the end is at hand. Now it is our task to find one another again, to spread information from person to person, to keep a steady purpose, and to allow ourselves no rest until the last man is persuaded of the urgent need of his struggle against this system."
The White Rose, Second Leaflet, Munich 1942
"Then the kings of the earth, the elite, the military commanders, the rich, the powerful, and their every servant and free person hid themselves in caves and mountain crags. They cried out to the mountains and to the rocks, 'Fall on us, and hide us from the face of the one who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb. The great day of their awesome judgement has come, and who can stand against it?'”
Revelation 6:15-17
"The barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too. He will consume what civilization has slowly produced after generations of selection and effort, but he will not be at pains to replace such goods, nor indeed has he a comprehension of the virtue that has brought them into being. We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace, we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic inversion of our old certitudes; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond, and on these faces there are no smiles.”
Hilaire Belloc, This and That and the Other, 1912
Gold and silver rallied sharply, but were then whittled down during the day and taken into the red in the late afternoon.
The world is buying precious metals. The NY-London kleptoplex is trying to maintain their manipulative pool as the base of its physical metals inventory melts away.
Oh, Jesse, do you expect us to believe this? No, I expect you to sit back and continue believing the lies. It doesn't matter what you think. It matters what is. This is the first law of successful investing.
Stocks jumped up to new highs, and then flopped in the afternoon.
Trump goes on TV tonight to 'talk about Iran.'
The riots in Iran were another violent attempt at a 'color revolution' being spearheaded by MI6, Mossad and the CIA. It seems to have flopped.
Most of the time Trump changes his mind and delivers a rambling fantasy about how great things are now that he is in charge. He *might* do something else. I think we need to stay agile.
We'll have to wait and see.
There will be a stock market option expiration on Friday.
The mispricing of risk is profound, and increasing, fed by lies and bully boy tactics.
It will end badly.
Narcissists do not have friends. And the denizens of Wall Street and the City are hyenas.
Have a pleasant evening.
