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.
"Where such a shift in power is in favor of the governing elite, 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. Most state sponsored murder occurs under the cover of war, revolution, or guerrilla war, or in their aftermath."
R. J. Rummel