Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Gold and Silver Hammered

 

Gold and silver were hammered lower.

Let's see if they can hold support next week.

The dollar rallied. 

Stocks managed to churn out a neutral showing. 

Have a pleasant weekend. 

 

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Risk Off, Down Bubble

 

"No one today likes truth: utility and self interest have long ago been substituted for truth.  We live in a nightmare of falsehoods, and there are few who are sufficiently awake and aware to see things as they are.  Our first duty is to clear away illusions and recover a sense of reality." 

Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev 

 

"Our basic trouble was not an insufficiency of capital.  It was an insufficient distribution of buying power coupled with an over-sufficient speculation in production.  

Do what we may have to do to inject life into our ailing economic order, we cannot make it endure for long unless we can bring about a wiser, more equitable distribution of the national income.” 

Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 

 

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” 

 F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby 

 

The bubble momentum trade in financial assets was getting crowded and overdone. 

The mavens of the markets tried to shake off the hangers-on yesterday, but Jay Powell nixed their plans with his happy talk. 

So today the captains of Wall Street called for a down bubble, emergency deep.  

Time to take out the garbage.  Scrape the hull.  

The challenge the financiers presented to the Fed showed up in the yields of the longer dated 5+ Treasuries and curve. 

Despite the selling, the Dollar tread water very nicely just above 90.

VIX went north.

A grand wash day. 

What will Chairman Jay and his banker buddies do next in response? 

Or is this just another episode of kabuki theater among financial friends.

Let's see what comes out in the rinse. 

Have a pleasant evening. 

 

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - The Men Who Stole the World - Extreme Systemic Fragility

 

"The lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.  If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.” 

E.A. Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World

 

"Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant." 

John Henry Newman 

 

“Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory,  or one of unthinkable horror.” 

C. S. Lewis 

 

The metals were hit hard in the early morning hours.

This is often the case on the day after an option expiration on the Comex. 

Stocks slumped very hard again led lower by tech.

Jay Powell, Fed Chair, helped to talk the market back up during his testimony today.

The metals recovered, led higher by the miners, especially silver.

Lately the manipulation is open and predictable, shameless and without fear of consequences. 

And if some notice, they are easily distracted by nonsense, bread, and circuses.

We love our illusions.   The more empty they become, the more strongly we embrace them.

Through years of short term thinking and private greed our systems have grown increasingly fragile and vulnerable.

Are you not entertained?

"The banks must be restrained, and the financial system reformed, and balance restored to the economy, before there can be any sustained recovery." 

 Jesse, July 2009 

Have pleasant evening.

 

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Shameless, Fearless of Consequences - Metals Hit For Expiration

 

"The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor.  It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor.  

It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich." 

G. K. Chesterton

 

“Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society to justify and extol human greed and egotism.   

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.” 

Gore Vidal

 

"But there is a sort of 'Ok guys, you're mad, but how are you going to stop me' mentality at the top." 

Robert Johnson, Audacious Oligarchy 

 

"We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I've ever seen in my life." 

Jimmy Carter 

 

"Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.” 

Tacitus

 

Gold and silver were hit this morning, as is expected on a Comex Option Expiration n the Futures Contracts.

Silver is in an active month for March and was hit particularly hard.

But the metals seemed to claw their way back.

Silver is very much worth watching.

Stocks took a serious dive.   They were clawed back in the afternoon trade.

At some point, and it may be sooner rather than later,  they are going to take a dive, and the rescue attempt is going to fizzle.  

And away we go on this latest round of bubble and bust, compliments of a corrupt financial system.

I was discussing the metals action with a friend today, and observed that there is likely to be more counter-intuitive action in the metals as the shortage of physical worsens and the leverage and asset fraud intensify. 

An ordinary person, when caught in a bad situation, tends to gather themselves together and try to pull out of it, to make a break.

Not so with conmen and sociopaths.  They continue to double down and inflate their bluffs, feeling confident that they can talk their way out of anything.

And as further incentive, in this captured regulatory climate, when caught they are most likely to get a wristslap and a generous bailout.

Or as was so recently demonstrated in Texas, they can just point the finger at strawmen and channel the anger of the abused away from themselves, the real abusers.

We are so foolish and stupid and pig-headed and undeserving. 

And it seems as though the worse we are, the louder and prouder we get.

God must truly be great and His mercy vast, to love us, much less suffer and die for us.  

Have a pleasant evening.