"Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art..."
John Keats
Despite the price takedown yesterday, the open interest drifted higher, taking the claims per ounce of deliverable gold to 62.9 to 1.
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