There was intraday commentary on the early morning bear raid here.
This is a Non-Farm Payrolls week, in the non-active month of January.
There was no movement in or out of the Comex warehouses.
"Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy."
Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v. United States, 1928