Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - The Miserable Consequence of Obsessive Greed

 

"Dishonor waits on perfidy.  A man should blush to think a falsehood; 'tis the crime of cowards."

Charles Johnson,The Sultaness, 1723

"In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.  The Government will not assail you.  You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors.  You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend it.'

I am loath to close.  We are not enemies, but friends.  We must not be enemies.  Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection.  The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861

“The commercial world is very frequently put into confusion by the bankruptcy of merchants, that assumed the splendour of wealth only to obtain the privilege of trading with the stock of other men, and of contracting debts which nothing but lucky casualties could enable them to pay; till after having supported their appearance a while by tumultuary magnificence of boundless traffic, they sink at once, and drag down into poverty those whom their equipages had induced to trust them."

Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, January 7, 1752

“It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.”

E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly, May 2011

"Risk is once again being spread from the financial sector to the public, which is what Fed Chairman Greenspan had said was one of the objectives of the Fed in their positions on the regulation of complex financial products.  We were assured that the markets were sound, no additional regulation was required, the pensions were adequately funded.  And finally when disaster struck and the facade fell away, that a generation's ransom was required by the banks, in order to heal themselves and avert disaster.

And then they took the money for themselves."

Jesse, A Run On the Funds, 30 August 2009

"But there is a sort of  'Ok guys, you're mad, but how are you going to stop me' mentality at the top."

Robert Johnson, Oligarchy, Impact 2012

“'The world says: "You have needs — satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty.  Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more.'  This is the worldly doctrine of today.  And they believe that this is freedom.  The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 1880

"They want you to own nothing. They want you to rent your car, your house, your entire life from them, from a billionaire class that owns everything around you. That's their ideal future, and we can't let them have it."

Graham Platner, Candidate for Senate, May 21, 2026


Stocks slumped today early, and then recovered and closed with a gain. 

This is becoming the signature move of Trump's crooked markets.

Gold and silver were hit early on, and then came back again in the afternoon.

Bitcoin is holding on to support, not going down but not able to lift off of it again.

VIX has fallen down to a level that has been marking a low water mark for complacency of late.

The Dollar is chopping around sideways at 99.

Trading markets in which official lies and front-running prices have become a regular thing are a bit of a challenge.

We should be ashamed of such corruption in the highest places of power in the land.  Even moreso those in professional positions and the media who aid and abet this perfidy.

And for what?  What is worth your soul?  

The surprise is not that it is given away, but that it is given away so cheaply. 

Have a pleasant evening.