Neil Barofsky: Ongoing Bailout of Wall Street

Gold Daily and Silver Weekly Charts - Cheap Shot at the New York Open

Carney game antics, nothing more, nothing less.

The financiers will not back off until they bring the real economy to exhaustion and failure. Or someone stops them.

SP 500 and NDX Futures Daily Charts - Technical Tug of War in Sparse Volumes

The US markets are dying for lack of real volume and a drought of investment funds.

The action is little more than a tug of war by short holding time trades.

If this market gets hit by an exogenous event that provokes selling it could drop quite impressively.

Gold Gets Attitude Adjustment On Hot PPI Number

The monthly change in PPI came in hot this morning at 8:30 with core PPI at .4% versus an expected .2% and PPI at .3% versus the same .2% expected.

The NY open hit gold on light volume.

Stocks rose on a 'surprisingly strong' retail sales number of .8% versus .2% expected.