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.
"Quite a lot of what passes itself off as dialogue about our society consists of people trying to justify their own choices. Let me propose that if your beliefs or convictions matter more to you than people—if they require you to act as though you were a worse person than you are—you may have lost perspective."
Timothy Kreider, We Learn Nothing, 2012