Selling in the London and NY paper markets is being met by determined buying. Today was another record high close as the bear raid was 'stuffed.'
The equity markets are being managed higher on thin volumes led by the SP 500 futures.
“Blood and power intoxicate; they help to develop callousness and debauchery. The mind then becomes capable of the most abnormal cruelty, which it regards pleasure; the man and the citizen are swallowed up in the tyrant; and the return to human dignity, repentance, moral resurrection, becomes almost impossible."
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The House of the Dead