An eerie quiet is over the US markets. The SP 500 has slid sideways in an exceptionally narrow range for the past five sessions despite some intraday intramurals.
Gold was hit with a half-hearted bear raid today, while silver remained stalwart.
"You are the very cause of your ignorance, yourselves. You put away the light, yourselves; you first pluck out both your own eyes, yourselves; and after that other men’s too, so that the blind may lead the blind, until you both fall into the pit.”
Thomas More, The Sadness of Christ (Gethsemane), Tower of London, 1535