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.
"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