Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - From Enemy Occupied Territory

 

"Why is God landing in this enemy-occupied world in disguise and starting a sort of secret society to undermine the devil?   Why is He not landing in force, invading it?  Is it that He is not strong enough?  Well, Christians think He is going to land in force; we do not know when.   But we can guess why He is delaying.   He wants to give us the chance of joining His side freely.

God will invade.   But I wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and directly in our world quite realise what it will be like when He does.  When that happens, it is the end of the world.  When the author walks on to the stage the play is over.   God is going to invade, all right: but what is the good of saying you are on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else - something it never entered your head to conceive - comes crashing in; something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left?

For this time it will be God without disguise; something so overwhelming that it will strike either irresistible love or irresistible horror into every creature.  It will be too late then to choose your side.   There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.  That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realised it before or not.   Now, today, this moment, is our chance to choose the right side.  God is holding back to give us that chance.  It will not last for ever."

C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, 1944

"This is how we know who are the children of God and who are the children of Satan: anyone who does not do what is good is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their neighbor."

1 John 3:10

‘When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and the host of angels with him, he will sit on his righteous throne.  All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.  He will put the sheep on his right, and the goats on his left.

‘Then the Lord will say to those on his right, “Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.  For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was ill and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.”

‘Then the righteous will answer him, “Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?  When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you?  When did we see you ill or in prison and go to visit you?” and the Lord will reply, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”

‘Then he will say to those on his left, “Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the torments prepared for the devil and his angels.  For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was ill and in prison and you did not look after me.”

‘They also will answer, “Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or ill or in prison, and did not help you?”  He will reply, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.”

‘Then they will go away to their chastisement, but the righteous will enter into eternal life.’

Matthew 25:31-46


The Fed sat on its hands, as expected.

Powell gave a fairly dovish press conference, dismissing the notion of rate hikes, and also of stagflation.

And the markets took off like a moonshot.

But wonder of wonders, we were treated to an afternoon wash and rinse.

Stocks lost their moonshot in the last hour and dumped back all the way to unchanged with a vengeance.

Gold and silver managed to hold on to some of their gains, but well off their highs.

The Dollar lost some ground.

Bitcoin is wallowing below the 60k level.  

Now on to the Non-Farm Payrolls report on Friday.

I can't believe the utter repression being self-righteously leveled at university campuses and the thought police actions of the cancel culture.

This reminds me very much of the McCarthy era.   It is hard for anyone who did not live through it to know how intense the recriminations, name-calling, and hysteria had become.

"Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party of the United States?"

This is America today.  

Left or right, these pin-headed ideologues have no shame, or respect for the law and the Constitution.  

Ever. None. 

It's all about money and power— from the US to the UK, from Germany to France.

These are the household gods of the Western elite.

What are we becoming.

Have a pleasant evening.

 

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - The Destruction of Leviathan

 

"What the age needs is not a genius — it has had geniuses enough, but a martyr, who in order to teach men to obey would himself be obedient unto death.  What the age needs is awakening."

Søren Kierkegaard, Journals, 20 November 1847

 "So do not fear, I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God.  I will strengthen you, and will help you.   I will uphold you with the firm hand of my righteousness."

Isaiah 41:10

"Most economists are going to be painfully slow to change their thinking, particularly in the US, even after this latest financial crisis of historic proportions.  It is hard to change when one cannot even admit one's mistakes, and the green shoots of a false Spring bring out new hopes that old ways might still work once again.  The status quo often has a powerful grip on the levers of thought leadership, and a social science like economics is especially vulnerable to peer pigheadedness, even when it is shown to be flat out wrong.  One thing which is almost certain is that change will not come from within, but from without."

Jesse, The Federal Reserve School of Monetary Witchcraft and Wizardry, 28 September 2009

"Our Lord has no body now but yours, no hands, no feet on earth but yours.  Yours are the eyes through which He looks with compassion on this world, yours are the feet with which He walks to do good.  Yours are the hands, with which He blesses all the world.

Lord, grant that I may always allow myself to be guided by You, always follow Your plans, and perfectly accomplish Your Holy Will.  Grant that in all things, great and small, today and all the days of my life, I may do whatever You require of me."

Teresa of Avila

"Peace I leave you; my peace I give to you.  Not as the world gives do I give it to you.  So do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid."

John 14:27

"Caesar was swimming in blood, Rome and the whole pagan world was mad. But those who had had enough of transgression and madness, those who were trampled upon, those whose lives were misery and oppression, all the weighed down, all the sad, all the unfortunate, came to hear the wonderful tidings of God, who out of love for men had given Himself to be crucified and redeem their sins.

And Peter understood that neither Nero, nor all his legions, could overcome the living truth— that they could not overwhelm it with tears or blood, and that now its victory was beginning. He understood with equal force why the Lord had turned him back on the road. That city of pride, of crime, of wickedness, and of a lust for power, was beginning to be His."

Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis, 1905


The mighty rise and are fallen, but the word and the spirit endure. 

The Employment Cost Index came in higher than expected, and so the selling began.

Stocks fell sharply, going out on the lows.

The Dollar rallied sharply on the bearish outlook for interest rates.  

VIX rose.

Gold and silver received their traditional pummeling ahead of the FOMC meeting.

If you are getting your information from the corporate media you probably have no idea what is really going on.  Except for maybe sports and weather.

"Many of us like to ask ourselves, 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery?   Or the Jim Crow South?   Or apartheid?  What would I do if my country was committing genocide?'   The answer is, you're doing it.   Right now."

Aaron Bushnell

Where are we going Lord?  

What are we becoming?

Have a pleasant evening.

 

 

 

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - The Dark Supremacy of Power

 

"There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth.  It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe each other."

Samuel Johnson, Capture of Louisbourg, Idler 20, September 25, 1750

"The gates of Hell are terrible to behold, are they not? The lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making."

E.A. Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World

"The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria."

Frank Herbert, The God Emperor of Dune, 1981

“Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them — and then, the opportunity to choose.”

C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination, 1959

"The illusions of extremists, of both the right and the left, are dangerous things, for the very reason that they often incline themselves to sacrifice the individual, and even surprisingly large groups of individuals and segments of society, for the 'greater good' of their illusions. And no people, no organization of people, and no nation is immune or exceptional to this extremity.  Evil is a choice, a long, gradual succession of choices. And the madness never sleeps, always looking for souls to devour."

Jesse, A Cruel Deception, 28 October 2022

"It does not matter how small the sins are, provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one— the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."

C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

"How are the mighty fallen, and their weapons of war destroyed."

2 Samuel 1:27


They lie, and call it statecraft.   They betray their nation, and call it practical.   They abandon virtue to greed, and call it rational. They foster corruption, and call it necessity. They murder innocents, and call it peace. 

And when they meet their God He will say, 'Depart from me.  I do not know you, workers of lawlessness.'

 Stocks were wobbling around again, stick save into the close.

Gold and silver were marching in place.

The Dollar is down a bit.

So is the VIX.

The FOMC decision on Wednesday and Non-Farm Payrolls on Friday may move the markets.

What are we becoming.

Have a pleasant evening.