As a reminder, this Friday January 16 is options expiration.
Also, US markets will be closed on Monday January 19 for the Martin Luther King national holiday.
The markets will be open on Tuesday January 20 which is the Inauguration Day for the incoming President Barack Obama.
"The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it will make war on others and murder its foreign and domestic subjects. Power will achieve its murderous potential. It simply waits for an excuse, an event of some sort, an assassination, a massacre in a neighboring country, an attempted coup, a famine, or a natural disaster, to justify the beginning of murder en masse."
R. J. Rummel, Mass Murder and Genocide, 1994