Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - The Quiet Before the Storms

“The real conflict is the inner conflict.  Beyond armies of occupation and the catacombs of extermination camps, there are two irreconcilable enemies in the depth of every soul: good and evil, sin and love.  And of what use are the victories on the battlefield if we ourselves are defeated in our innermost souls.”

Maximilian Kolbe


"I urge you, brothers and sisters, to be wary of those who cause divisions and undermine the faithful, in opposition to the teaching that you have learned.  Avoid them.  For such people do not serve our Lord, but their own appetites.  And by clever words and flattery they deceive the hearts of the innocent and naive."

Romans 16:17-18


“Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given away in marriage, up to the very day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came, and swept them all away.”

Luke 17:26-27


"Do you think he is so unskillful in his craft, as to ask you openly and plainly to join him in his warfare against the truth?  No; he offers you baits to tempt you.   He prompts you what to say, and then listens to you, and praises you, and encourages you.  He bids you mount aloft.  He shows you how to become as gods.  Then he laughs and jokes with you, and gets intimate with you; he takes your hand, and gets his fingers between yours, and grasps them, and then you are his."

John Henry Newman, Time of Antichrist

Stocks moved higher today on hopes of an improvement in US-China relations.

In reality this is just the momentum of a bubble mentality, fueled by the Banks and the corporations, their Federal Reserve, and an unbelievably corrupt Administration.

The Dollar moved lower. Gold and silver finished almost unchanged.

There are those who would mislead and use you; do not listen to them.

Get right and sit tight.

Have a pleasant evening.

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Risk On - Stocks Pumped for the Trump GOP Convention Extravaganza

"The suspicions that the system is rigged in favor of the largest banks and their elites, so they play by their own set of rules to the disfavor of the taxpayers who funded their bailout, are true. It really happened. These suspicions are valid.”

Neil Barofsky, TARP Inspector General


"Narcissists are unstable and go through repeated cycles of self-destruction, with other people usually paying the heft of the price. They are aware of what they are doing to others — but they do not care. Narcissists tend to be divisive, vindictive, confrontational, aggressive, hate-filled, raging, incoherent, judgment-impaired, and irrational."

Sam Vaknin, Malignant Self-Love


“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”

Søren Kierkegaard


“Many politicians are tantalizing storytellers, as they mix facts with fiction, grab our emotion and tell things they want us to believe. Their factoids are unremittingly reiterated, take a life on their own, and in the end become the very truth— until the bubble bursts."

Erik Pevernagie


"Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become a universal religion."

George Orwell

This is going to end badly.

Have a pleasant evening.

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - We're Off To See the Wizard - Shenanigans For Stock Option Expiration

“I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they grew rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves, and of one another.”

Samuel Johnson


“A mighty bubble of wealth is blown before our eyes, as empty, as transient, as contradictory to the laws of solid material, as confuted by every circumstance of actual condition, as any other bubble which man or child ever blew before.”

Edward Chancellor, Devil Take the Hindmost


"The wealthy, not only by private fraud but also by common laws, do every day pluck and snatch away from the people some part of their daily living. They invent and devise all means and crafts, first how to keep safely without fear of losing that which they have unjustly gathered together, and next how to hire and abuse the work and labor of the people for as little money and effort as possible."

Thomas More, Utopia


"Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started."

Mary Midgley, The Myths We Live By

A crash is coming. The only question now is when.

This next bust may be the pièces de résistance of the bust and bubble economy which we have been enjoying for over thirty years now, compliments of the moneyed interests, the captive regulators, enablers in politics and the media, and their pliable Federal Reserve Bank.

Stocks hit new highs today.

The Dollar rallied a little.

Gold and silver were off a bit.

Don't get in front of this, but know that this is a castle of glitter, built on a sandy foundation of corruption and illusions.

Sing goddess, the rage of Achilles...

The mighty rise and are fallen, forgotten— but the word and the spirit endure.

Have a pleasant weekend.

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Flight To Fantasy - A Gathering of Vultures

"The failure of normal empathy is central to sociopathy, which is marked by an absence of guilt, intentional manipulation, and controlling or even sadistically harming others for personal power or gratification.”

Bandy Lee


"I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man.   Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy."

G. M. Gilbert


“Once they’re in power, narcissists consolidate their position by firing everyone who challenges them. In their place rise a plague of toadies, opportunists, and enablers equally guided by self-interest and short on scruples.  So you end up with these individualistic cultures with no teamwork and low integrity."

Lee Simmons, Stanford Business School


"As in all periods of speculation, men sought not to be persuaded by the reality of things but to find excuses for escaping into the new world of fantasy."

"John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash of 1929


“Now we are witnessing a transformation: a true opium of the people is the belief in nothingness after death, the huge solace, the huge comfort of thinking that for our betrayals, our greed, our cowardice, our murders, that we are not going to be judged.”

Czeslaw Milosz, The Discreet Charm of Nihilism


"And they said to him, 'Where will this happen, Lord?' And He said to them, 'Where death is, there a gathering of vultures will be.'”

Luke 17:37

Today's market action was driven by a handful of 'new era' stocks.

In the SP 500, about 350 stocks were in the red.

Gold and silver gained again, despite the persistent price manipulation by the Hedge Funds and the Banks who are gaming the markets even further, now that it appears we are reaching the endgame.

There is a gathering storm.   And like the pandemic, its mark on history may be lasting, and a sign and warning for the next generation.

Lord have mercy on us, and forgive us our rebellious ignorance and our impenetrable pride.

Have a pleasant evening.