Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Little Girl, I Say to You Arise

 

"When they arrived at the house of the elder of the synagogue, Jesus observed a great deal of commotion, with people weeping and wailing loudly. When he entered, he said to them, 'Why all this hysteria and weeping? The child is not dead, she is only sleeping.' And the people began to ridicule him.

After sending them all outside, he took the child’s father and mother with his companions and entered the room where the child lay. He held her by the hand and said, 'Talitha koum' which means: 'Little girl, I say to you, arise.' And the girl of twelve got up and began to walk around. And the people were all amazed."

Mark 5:38-42

"The greedy elite would rather be extremely rich in a suffering nation than modestly rich in a successful nation.  The greater the misery, the greater their power, since power is the difference in wealth and influence between one person and another."

Jesse, Speaking Privately to Wealthy Donors, 18 September 2012

“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”

Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds, 1841

"In a week of going all round Caracas [Venezuela], I had yet to see a checkpoint, that nobody had at any stage asked me who I am, what I was doing or prevented me from going anywhere, and that the shops, bars and restaurants are all functioning normally.  Colleen in Minneapolis said that there were checkpoints everywhere, that the streets are full of heavily armed men, that people are frequently stopped, questioned, asked to produce documents, and diverted, and that many shops bars and restaurants are closed because the staff are afraid to venture out into the streets."

Craig Murray, Pirate of the Caribbean, 3 February 2026


Stocks resumed their sell off today, after yesterday's short squeeze.

Gold and silver rebounded.

The Dollar weakened.

Bitcoin fell to a new recent low, but rebounded a bit into the close.

VIX rose.

Non-Farm Payrolls on Friday.

Have a pleasant weekend. 

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - And the Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail

 

"Seek the Lord, all you humble of the earth, you who carry out what He commands.  Seek righteousness, and seek humility, that you may find shelter on the day of the Lord’s wrath.

But I will leave as a remnant in your midst, a people humble and lowly, who shall take refuge in the name of the Lord — the remnant of Israel.  They shall do no wrong and speak no lies; nor shall there be found in their mouths a deceitful tongue.  They shall pasture and lie down with none to disturb them."

Zephaniah 2:3 3:12-13

"His instruments are poor and despised; the world hardly knows their names, or not at all. They are busied about what the world thinks petty actions, and no one minds them. They are apparently set on no great works; nothing is seen to come of what they do.

The world does not understand what our real power is, and where it lies.  And until we put ourselves into power's hands of our own act, it can do nothing against us.  Let all who labour for God in a dark time beware of any thing which ruffles, excites, and in any way withdraws them from the love of God and Christ, and a simple obedience to Him."

John Henry Newman, The Rule of Our Warfare, 13 June 1841

"Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary things.  Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.  Lacking any other purpose in life, it would be good enough to live for their sake."

Garrison Keillor, A Prairie Home Companion

"The Beatitudes remain a paradox only for those who believe that God is other than how Christ reveals him.  Those who expect the arrogant to always rule the earth are surprised by the Lord’s words.  Those who are accustomed to thinking that happiness belongs to the rich may believe that Jesus is deluded.  However, the delusion lies precisely in the lack of faith in Christ.  He is the poor man who shares his life with everyone, the meek man who perseveres in suffering, the peacemaker persecuted to death on the cross."

Pope Leo XIV, Angelus Address, 1 February 2026

We are seeing a repeating pattern wherein the stock index futures get hammered overnight on Sunday, and then we see a steady short squeeze on Monday.

The Dollar gained back a little more into the 97 handle.

Gold and silver could not sustain a rebound but recovered well from their lows.

VIX fell sharply as Bessent and his minions poured the oil of liquidity and buy programs over the mispriced troubles of the risk markets.

We will be heading into a Non-Farm Payrolls report on Friday.

I think Donnie is reluctant to pull the trigger on his 'great armada' positioned near Iran, despite the ardent urging of his donor class and regional 'allies.'

The Congress, particularly the GOP but not excluding some of the Democratic leadership, are disgraceful in failing to uphold their oaths to the Constitution.

And the band played on.

We are assured that the gates of hell shall not prevail against the people of God.  

But that does not mean we ought to do nothing.  

"In the name of God, in the name of this suffering people whose cry rises to heaven more loudly each day, I implore you, I beg you, I order you: stop the repression. You can tell your people that if they succeed in killing me, that I forgive and bless those who do it. Hopefully, they will realize they are wasting their time. A bishop will die, but the church of God, which is the people, will never perish." Bishop Oscar Romero

I wish those who honor their conscience in the march for life would also march for the lives of those who are being shot, and abducted, and falsely imprisoned.  This would be a true test of faith, to join those who are acting in faith, where God is moving among his people in the care of the least of these. 

Have a pleasant evening. 

 

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - The Rot of Imperial Decay

 

"A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy.  I have had plenty of opportunity in my post in Berlin to witness how close some of our American ruling families are to the Nazi regime.  Certain American industrialists had a great deal to do with bringing fascist regimes into being in both Germany and Italy.  They extend aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there."

William E. Dodd, US Ambassador to Germany, Letter to President Roosevelt, 1936

“The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage and whip their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy— then go back to the office and sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece.”

Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

"The party defined what was legal and what was not.  The presumption of innocence was replaced by a universalized presumption of guilt.  Extreme radical systems have unique features, including rationalization of power, definition of the enemies. They represent efforts to establish total control over society through systematic aggression against any form of autonomous associations, as well as the persecution and eventual extermination of ideologically defined adversaries.  The ideology is aptly summarized in an apocalyptic statement from the vision of a superior elite whose utopian goals sanctify the most barbaric methods — the denial of the right to life to those who are defined as 'degenerate parasites and predators,' the deliberate de-humanization of the victims."

Vladimir Tismaneanu, Understanding Radical Evil, July 7, 2011


Gold and silver were hammered down today. I have been expecting something like this, and have been standing aside in cash. 

I came back in and took some new positions near the close.

China is having a holiday week in February, and I do not know how active their trading markets will be.

Stocks waffled around.

VIX is a puppet on a string.

As I have mentioned before, the smell of Bessent and the government are all over the tape and the 'official data.'  

When Donnie realizes he is going down, things could get much more bizarre. 

If after all that has happened you are still willing to ignore and rationalize fraud, lies, willful murder, and genocide, then you are most likely on a twisted path that will not end well for you and those around you. 

I will pray for all of us.

Have a pleasant weekend. 

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - True Spiritual Darkness

 

"You belong to your father the devil, and you want to serve your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not serving the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies."

John 8:43-44

"In contrast to the vile actions of the 'Angel of Death' were the noble and heroic actions of many 'Angels of Life' who stood ready to risk their own lives for the sake of saving that of a stranger."

Yossi Refson, Angels of Light

"Beware of false prophets who disguise themselves in sheep’s clothing, but who are inwardly ravening wolves. By their fruits you will know them."

Matthew 7:15-16

"The devil is no fool.  He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell.  And men are so poor in intellect that a few cold chills down their spine will be enough to keep them from ever finding out the truth about anything.  When we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen."

Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law."

Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law, 1904

"These things I command, that you may love one another. If the world despises you, know that it has despised me first, before it has hated you. If you were a thing of the world, the world would love you as its own. But I have chosen you out of the world, you do not belong to it, and it rejects you."

John 15:17-19

"This is love, that He laid down his life for us.  And we are obliged to lay down our lives for one another.  If anyone has the means and sees a brother or sister in need, but closes his heart against them, how can the love of God abide in that person?  Children, let us love each other not only with words or speech, but with actions and truth."

1 John 3:15-16

“Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me. Weep for yourselves and your children."

Luke 23:28

“No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we have found it. The real conflict is the inner conflict. Beyond armies of occupation and the catacombs of extermination camps, there are two irreconcilable enemies in the depth of every soul: good and evil, sin and love.”

Maximilian Kolbe


Because the freedom granted by ignorance is unconstrained by facts, we learn nothing. 

Most evil is committed not by those who choose to be good or evil, but who refuse to serve anything but themselves.

And the band plays on.

Stocks slumped hard today, but once again managed to recover quite a bit of that loss in the afternoon hours. 

Bessent and his ESF cronies are active.  This most likely includes the NY Fed, but a loose coalition of hedge fund and private equity operators who are actively gaming the system for their own benefit.

Gold and silver were smacked very hard in a calculated bear raid.   I was expecting one, especially after this later moonshot rally in silver.

This is how they operate.  

They are not particularly clever because they do not have to be.   They are operating virtually without oversight, and the omerta on Wall Street is a powerful accessory to deception.

I think the intent to strike Iran in a more serious way has fizzled out, with the failure of the 'color revolution' type protests that were sparked by the three sisters of darkness: MI6, Mossad, and the CIA.

But with the fleet at hand, Donnie is going to have to do 'something' to save face, without provoking Iran to retaliate by crushing something that will be missed, either some US base or a chunk of Tel Aviv.

These are difficult times.   Spineless politicians and unprincipled journalists are laying down smoke that enables some rather bizarre ideologues and power-mongers to engage in excesses normally considered untenable.

Murder a few Americans in the street to attempt to provoke a reaction, turn a blind eye to one of the worst massacres of civilians in this current century — anything goes as the oligarchs continue to acquire the means of public media and control it. 

This is going to come to an end, and most likely a very harmful and damaging end, in which a large number of innocent people are going to be hurt.

This is the way of the bubble, and the bust.

And so we are going down this path once again, for the third time in that many decades.

It is the reaving of the American economy by the plutocrats.

Let's see how well this observation by the chief financial officer of the US will age. 

"I think 2026 is going to be the year of the Trump boom." Scott Bessent, January 29, 2026

How are the mighty fallen.  And their weapons of power have perished.

Have a pleasant evening.