Bear raid right on schedule for Comex option expiration week, after they ran it up to the stratosphere.
Look out for Thursday expiration and Friday when Benny will be expected to say something on the easing front.
Every empire in its official discourse has said it is not like the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest 'mission civilisatrice.' Edward W. Said