"He has shown us what is good. The Lord asks that we do what is right, love with kindness and mercy, and walk humbly with our God."
Micah 6:8
"From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find a comfortable foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned."
Emile Durkheim
"What is offensive is that they lie, and worship their own lying."
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
”Quand on enferme la vérité sous terre, elle s'y amasse, elle y prend une force telle d'explosion, que, le jour où elle éclate, elle fait tout sauter avec elle.”
When the truth is buried under the ground, it grows there, and gathers to itself such an explosive force that, the day it bursts, it blows up everything with it.
Émile François Zola
Stocks were languishing most of the day, but managed to turn around and rally into the close.
The markets were cheered by Microsoft's green light to acquire Activision.
The Dollar continued to slump.
Gold moved higher, but silver was not able to turn around with equities and slumped into the close.
Consumer inflation data on deck for tomorrow morning.
Politics in America has become almost senseless in a cacophony of shameless, partisan lies.
It is driven by greed, a cynical lust for power, and is becoming infectious.
Lying is rising to the level of art form amongst the elite and their blindly stumbling, mumbling true believers.
And this is how the Republic is drawn down a dark alley, and strangled by its shepherds.
Have a pleasant evening.
