The Daily Show Does the US Ratings Agencies

The Daily Show does the ratings agencies, CNBC, and the opera buffo of the financial markets.

The credibility trap doesn't explain everything, but it does cover quite a bit.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

Upton Sinclair

h/t Matt Taibbi

COMEX Registered Gold Inventory Drops to New Lows

Bullion offered as deliverable inventories at the COMEX has dropped to new lows.

As a reminder, tomorrow is option expiration for gold and silver.

This evening Harvey Organ notes that:

"Tonight, the Comex registered or dealer gold lowers in inventory to 1.359 million oz or 42.27 tonnes. This is still dangerously low. The total of all gold at the Comex rose sightly to 7.681 million oz or 238.9 tonnes of gold.

JPMorgan's customer inventory remains constant tonight at 141,197.86 oz or 4.39 tonnes. Its dealer inventory also remains constant at 408,709.033 oz but it still must settle upon contracts issued in the June delivery month which far exceeds its inventory.

The total of the three major gold bullion dealers (Scotia , HSBC and JPMorgan) in their  gold Comex dealer account registers only 27.76 tonnes of gold."

The Wall

"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness."

Niels Bohr


"Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity."

John Dalberg Lord Acton

Gold Daily and Silver Weekly Charts - Option Expiration Tomorrow on the Comex

For those of you who are familiar with George Orwell's 1984, the histrionics about the search for arch-villain and espionage agent Edward Snowden reminds one of the search for the mythical enemy of the state in that book, Emmanuel Goldstein.

I will be curious to see what the equity market does, and how gold and silver go forward into the last few days of this delivery period with the existing inventory levels near record lows. 

As you know, when registered gold inventory has gotten to these record lows, it has marked an intermediate trend change within a month or so.

Speaking of contrary indicators, Dennis Gartman came out today and made some grunting noises about those unfortunates who own gold.  Dennis should know unfortunate, given the awesomely awful performance of the Gartman ETF (HAG.TO) which earlier this year went 'tits up' as they used to say in WW II.

For your convenience I have included the Comex calendar for the futures and for options below.