Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Insatiable Greed that Devours Common Sense

 

"With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made ‘legal.’ Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.”

Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer, April 2010

"They abhor sunlight and love darkness.  They deal in innuendo and character assassination, and planted stories, the incomplete thought and sentence.  They burn and shred files if caught, they commit perjury, and when caught they have guaranteed sinecures with large US corporations.  If you let them, they will take over not only the CIA but the entire government and the world, cutting off dissent, free speech, a free media, and they will cut a deal with anyone, from the Mafia to Saddam Hussein, if it means more power and money.  They are ripping off America at a rate never before seen in history.  They ruin their detractors and they fear the truth.  If they can, they will blackmail you.  Sex, drugs, deals, whatever it takes.”

Bruce Hemmings, CIA Officer, as quoted by Whitney Webb, One Nation Under Blackmail, 2022

“It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.”

E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly


Stocks just meandered around, with a slight bias to the upside.

Gold and silver continued to move higher.  

Their recent rallies are powerful.  Just look at the charts.

The Dollar continued to drift lower.

VIX is still quiescent.

I enjoy listening to Whitney Webb.  It is refreshing to hear someone who is well-informed and scrupulous about saying what is true and what is not, and all the in-between.

You certainly won't find that in the mainstream media, which are most often active enablers or at best, stenographers to power.

People are routinely accepting things today that would have had them outraged in the 1990s. 

It will get worse before it gets better.  

As Hermann Hesse said, 'As the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.' 

I hope I am still around to see that turning of events.

Have a pleasant evening.

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - The Decline and Fall of the Malignant Few

 

"The truly savage and frenetic part of New York, the terrible, cold, cruel part, is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it.  There, as nowhere else, you feel a total absence of the spirit: herds of men who cannot count past three, herds more who cannot get past six, scorn for pure science and demoniacal respect for the present.

And the terrible thing is that the crowd that fills this street believes that the world will always be the same, that it is their duty to keep that huge machine running, day and night, forever.

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several billion dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.  Never as then, amid suicides, hysteria, and groups of fainting people, have I felt the sensation of real death, death without hope, death that is nothing but rottenness, for the spectacle was terrifying but devoid of greatness.

I felt something like a divine urge to bombard that whole canyon of shadow, where ambulances collected suicides whose hands were full of rings."

Federico Garcia Lorca, A Poet In New York, October 1929

"Whoever acquits the wicked, whoever condemns the just, are all an abomination to the Lord."

Proverbs 17:15

“The mob believes everything it is told, provided only that it be repeated over and over.  Provided too that its passions, hatreds, fears are catered to.  The grosser, the bigger, the cruder the lie, the more readily is it believed and followed.  The mob has no memory; needless to pretend to any truth: the mob is radically incapable of perceiving it: the mob can never comprehend that its own interests are what is at stake.”

Alexandre Koyré, Réflexions sur le Mensonge, March 1943

"And Abraham said, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not reform and repent, even if someone rises from the dead.’”

Luke 16:31


As you probably heard by now the Jobs Report came in shockingly low.  Stunningly bad.

Treasury yields on the short end plummeted, and took the dollar with them.

Gold and silver rallied to the upside.

Initially stocks rallied on the expectations of a rate cut at the next Fed meeting later this month.

But then the wiseguys thought about it and decided to sell, sell, sell.

I mean, what good are rate cuts if the economy is imploding, which is what such a low reading implied.

And so we had some wide ranging highs and lows in several of the markets.

I believe that Donnie and his Merry Pranksters are going to crash the economy, among other things, including the ruin of many poor souls.  

Try not to become one of them in your pride and your blindness. 

Its like watching drunk grandpa driving the car while he shakes his fist, yelling at the other drivers, pedestrians, dogs, cats, and mailboxes.

But that is something for another day.   

Need little, want less, love more.  For those who abide in love abide in God and God in them. 

Welcome to September.

Have a pleasant evening. 

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - The Awful Presence of the Eternal

 

“Son of man, they have set up idols in their hearts.  They cling to the errors that will make them fall into sin."

Ezekiel 14:3

"The world seems to go on as usual.  There is nothing of heaven in the face of society; in the news of the day there is nothing of heaven; in the faces of the many, or of the great, or of the rich, or of the busy, there is nothing of heaven; in the words of the eloquent, or the deeds of the powerful, or the counsels of the wise, or the resolves of the lordly, or the pomp of the wealthy, there is nothing of heaven. And yet the Ever-blessed Spirit of God is here; the Presence of the Eternal Son, ten times more glorious, more powerful than when He trod the earth in our flesh, is with us. 

Let us ever bear in mind this divine truth — the more secret God's hand is, the more powerful — the more silent, the more awful."

John Henry Newman, Christ Manifested in Remembrance, Parochial Sermons Vol 4, N° 17,

"The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority, they don't dare to assert themselves.”

Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger

"The fact that the foolish person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent.  In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with a person, but with slogans, catchwords and the like that have taken possession of him.  He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being. 

Having thus become a mindless tool, the foolish person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil.  This is where the danger of diabolical misuse lurks, for it is this that can once and for all destroy human beings."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison, 1945

"For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind."

Hosea 8:7

Non-Farm Payrolls tomorrow.   Let's see how it comes in and how the markets react.

Stocks managed to rally back up.

Gold and silver were slumping overnight, but less so during the day.

VIX is falling back down to la-la land again.

The Dollar was chopping around.

Bitcoin is pretty clearly in a trading range.  I have included a chart on this below.

The refusal of the Administration and the ruling party to release the Epstein information to the public is easy enough to understand.   It contains particularly repulsive information about them that they do not wish you to know. 

It is too much of a disgrace and a shame, a sickness great enough to put the fear of its exposure in people who are otherwise shameless.  It is just that bad, just that disgraceful that it demands to be covered up.  And they love power so much that they lie and break oaths to sustain it.

But, the band plays on. 

You really cannot help people.  I used to believe that people would listen to the facts, and then would act accordingly in a rational manner.

I really didn't understand Bonhoeffer's essay on the intransigence of foolishness, which he wrote from prison about the willful delusions of the German public, as they slid into the abyss.  

It is hard to accept the persistence of such irrational self-destructive behaviour among nominally educated and civilized people.

I understand it now.   

We will witness to history. 

Have a pleasant evening.

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - The Heavy Weight of Silence

 

“Four sorrows are certain to be visited on the United States.

• First, there will be a state of perpetual war.
• Second is a loss of democracy and Constitutional rights as the presidency eclipses Congress and is itself transformed from a co-equal ‘executive branch’ of government into a military junta.
• Third is the replacement of truth by propaganda, disinformation, and the glorification of war, power, and the military legions.
• Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens.”

Chalmers Johnson, The Sorrows of Empire, 2005

"Seneca had made the bargain that many good men have made when agreeing to aid bad regimes.  On the one hand, their presence strengthens the regime and helps it endure.  But their moral influence may also improve the regime's behavior or save the lives of its enemies.  For many, this has been a bargain worth making, even if it has cost them—as it may have cost Seneca—their immortal soul.  The Rome he has been trained to serve, the Rome of Augustus and Germanicus, was gone.  In its place stood Neropolis, ruled by a megalomaniac brat.”

James Romm, Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero, 2014

"And some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak.  We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak."

Martin Luther King, A Time to Break the Silence, 4 April 1967

"When we are the victims of an illusion we do not feel it to be an illusion but a reality.  It is the same perhaps with evil.  Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty. As soon as we do evil, the evil appears as a sort of duty.  Once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.  As soon as men know they that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles."

Simone Weil, La Pesanteur et la Grâce, 1947

"Our collective denial of the obvious, in the setting up of Oswald and his transparent silencing by Ruby, made possible the Dallas cover-up.  The success of the cover-up was the indispensable foundation for the subsequent murders of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and Robert Kennedy by the same forces at work in our government—and in ourselves.  The unspeakable is not far away."

James Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable, Maryknoll, 2008

I have to be somewhere in a bit, so I'll post the market data now and we catch up on any changes tomorrow. 

Stocks popped and flopped today, although they are coming well off their lows.

Still, it's not much of a recovery from yesterday's decline.

Gold and silver continued their rallies, but were substantially backing off from their gains in the late afternoon.

The Dollar declined.

Non-Farm Payrolls on Friday may dominate the week's action, barring any exogenous events.

One of the biggest problems we have today is the failure of law to curb the excesses, the greed and phantasms of the pathological. 

This is the very purpose of the law: to protect the majority from sociopathic behaviour and crime.

The forces of abnormal appetites are always at work trying to persuade people that they, and their children, do not need protection from predators, by the predators, in their obsessive pursuit of money, sex, land, and power over the weak and the innocent. 

Have a pleasant evening.