Gold Daily and Silver Weekly Charts - A Pause at Resistance, Now Support

Both gold and silver were held up at resistance, which is now acting as some support.

SP 500 and NDX Futures Daily Charts - Quiet Day

The market is holding its breath waiting to see what Zimbabwe Ben will say at Jackson Hole on Friday.

Stocks have diverged significantly higher from commodities and the euro. Something's going to change to restore the correlations.

Many the Wonders, But Nothing Stranger Than Man - Sophocles

"What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals...

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Men and women are such varied instruments, with far-ranging highs and lows, capable of remarkable, heart-breaking beauty and, with the same voice and hands and mind, unspeakable ugliness and petty squalor.

A mass of contradictions. Love and hate, held by a narrow seam. Heirs to the everlasting, born astride a grave. Dust that moves the eternal mind.

"What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?"

Psalm 8:4