SP 500 and NDX Futures Daily Charts - Fading Recovery, Skittish Market, Asset Bubble

I wonder how far they are willing to take this stock bubble?

It can keep drifting while there is no adverse geopolitical or economic news.

But the economic recovery is faltering. Or perhaps it would be more correct to say that the illusion is fading.

 

Zerohedge had an interesting article today about the ratio of Net Worth/GDP that may be signaling an asset bubble has already formed in the US.   The Fed's propensity to create asset bubbles in order to continue to sustain an inefficient and parasitical financial sector provides plenty of room for concern.  Their inability to provide the necessary reform because they are caught in a credibility trap is a recurring theme here.

 

It is a bit off the topic of markets, but Glenn Greenwald has an interesting story of how the US media manufacturers stories, and then tailors the narrative of the subsequent discussion of those 'stories' on their talk shows and panels to keep putting forward certain false and misleading propositions to the public.

 

I have seen some bloggers and internet trolls doing this, 'exposing' people as 'charlatans' but it is a bit jarring to see this done so readily by the mainstream media.

 

Have a pleasant evening.

Gold Daily and Silver Weekly Charts - Silver Remains Actively Sought for Delivery

 

This may be an 'inactive' month for gold, but not for silver.

 

As the latest clearing report from the Comex suggest, silver is getting an active declaration for delivery, with over 7 million ounces claimed so far in March. 

 

The latest Comex delivery report is below.

 

It may be a bucket shop for gold, but for some reason the Comex silver warehouses remain active, with bullion actually changing hands now and then, despite the obvious price antics practiced there.

 

The gold held at the Comex seems to have become largely symbolic, a reminder of what the pyramid of paper is said to represent.  It is like an old pier left in a bay that has silted over.  The gold markets have headed East.

 

Otherwise it was the same old, same old.  

 

Gold and silver are bid up on the overnight, and then slammed down with the London PM fix and then the opening of the NY Comex trade.

 

There is a message in this repetition.  And they continue on, despite the gathering storms on the horizon.  

 

Have a pleasant evening.

 

 

SP 500 and NDX Futures Daily Charts - Stunned Into Apathy

"Most of them became wealthy by being well connected and crooked. And they are creating a society in which they can commit hugely damaging economic crimes with impunity, and in which only children of the wealthy have the opportunity to become successful. That’s what I have a problem with. And I think most people agree with me."

Charles Ferguson, Predator Nation

"I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that."

Captain Edward John Smith, RMS Titanic

The new record high of 5,000 Nasdaq, reminiscent of the last time we were here, at the height of the tech bubble, almost fifteen years ago, was short lived, at least for now. 

 

There is certainly no reason why it could not go higher, even much higher, again.   Their hypocrisy and shamelessness knows no bounds.  Especially now after so many successful frauds with so little in consequences.

 

What surprises me is not that men deceive and betray their fellow men.  Any student of history will know of this recurrent, almost obsessive tendency, of a careless few.

 

Rather, what surprises me is that they do it so recklessly, so wantonly, and relatively, for so little compared to the carnage and misery that they leave behind. 

 

 I still cannot quite get over Ben Bernanke's recommendation that the President be given special executive powers to declare a state of economic emergency, and to effectively suspend the rule of law.  As if a financial crisis is an unexpected, tragic act of God.   And not the consequence of reckless greed and the weakness of corruptible men who know what they are doing, and do it anyway.

 

Rough seas ahead, my mateys.

 

Have a pleasant evening.

 

 

 

 

Nine Out of Ten Non-Regulators MIght See a Trend In Intraday Precious Metal Trading

'What is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for the answer.

Francis Bacon

Here are the intra-day averages for the price of gold and silver for February.

 

Can you detect any pattern intraday? 

 

There does seem to be a pronounced pattern associated with the geographic location of the primary trading market's time zone.

 

As the dissembling Winnie the Pooh said to the angry nest of bees, 'I'm only a little black rain cloud,  pay no attention to me.'

 

Tut tut, looks like rain.

 

Storms gathering on the horizon.  Better get more buckets for the bucket shop.

 

 

Charts courtesy of Nick Laird at Sharelynx.com.

Gold Daily and Silver Weekly Charts - The Craven Failure of the 'Technocrats' at the Fed

"A poor man is ever at a disadvantage in matters of public concern. When he rises to speak, or writes a letter to his superiors, they ask: 'Who is this fellow that offers advice?'

And when it is known that he is without coin they spit their hands at him, and use his letters in the cooks' fires. But if it be a man of wealth who would speak, or write, or denounce, even though he have the brain of a yearling dromedary, or a spine as crooked and unseemly, the whole city listens to his words and declares them wise."

Li Hung Chang, as quoted by Upton Sinclair in The Brass Check

 

I see where Mr. Bernanke thinks that Presidents should be given extraordinary powers to declare 'financial emergencies' and 'not leave it all up to the Fed.'

 

And who is it that doesn't want to be audited, doesn't want anyone looking over their shoulder, wants to be free to exercise their independent judgement, and keeps raising their hands to be given more and more regulatory powers which they fail to exercise faithfully and objectively over their banking cronies.

 

And then when they blow up the economy with a financial bubble which they created, they want the nation to clean up their mess, presumably by having the President invoke special emergency powers so that their financial engineering prowess is not encumbered by the democratic rule of law as they continue to throw trillions of dollars at the aftermath of the collapse of financial bubbles for which they have been the chief architects.

 

Non-farm payrolls on Friday.

 

Have a pleasant evening.

 

 

SP 500 and NDX Futures Daily Charts - NASDAQ 5,008

Nasdaq 5,008.

And it only took over $4 trillion in subsidies to the financial sector from the Fed.

Oh, well done.

Have a pleasant evening.