"Are we often weary, disheartened and sad? Do we feel weighed down by our sins? Do we think that we won’t be able to cope? Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up: there are no situations which God cannot change, there is no sin which he cannot forgive, if only we open ourselves to him."
Francis I, Easter Vigil, 2013
Links For Today
Bill Moyers: The Hypocrisy of 'Justice for All'
David Stockman: We've Been Lied To, Robbed, and Misled (podcast)
Afghan and Iraq Wars To Cost US From $4 to 6 Trillion
Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Shame of the Three Strikes Law - Rolling Stone
Inside the Three Strikes Project: An Inmate's Letter - Taibbi
Cyprus Depositors May Have Up to 60 Percent Seized
SAC's Steinberg Gets a Perp Walk - NYT
A Tale of Two Londons - Vanity Fair
Wall St Burden's the Public Debt - Michael Hudson
$600 Million Ponzi Scheme Collapse in North Carolina
Lesser Known Aspect of Currency War and the US Dollar - Rubino
Nation's Only State-Owned Bank the Envy of Wall Street
How G. W. Bush Won the Iraq War - Palast
Median Household Income Down 7% Since Start of Recession
30 March 2013
Links For Saturday, 30 March
28 March 2013
Gold Daily and Silver Weekly Charts
"Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. Such a society, no matter how long it persists, can never afford to become either tolerant or intellectually stable...End of quarter today, and gold and silver were under pressure as the punters were pushing the SP 500 higher for that bright, shiny new high.
Totalitarianism demands, in fact, the continuous alteration of the past, and in the long run probably demands a disbelief in the very existence of objective truth.
George Orwell
I took a counter bet to that into the weekend.
Intraday commentary here.
See you Sunday night. Happy Easter.
SP 500 and NDX Futures Daily Charts - New All Time High for SP 500 at End of Quarter
These jokers really worked hard to squeeze out that new high, even on very light volume.
This is a monetary inflation rally.
I would not get ahead of it, but when this market does turn for a correction the momentum players are going to be piling on in a big way.
Look at how far the SP 500 has come without a major correction. That is how far it may fall.
But for now illusion holds the day. Illusion is all one has, when reform and leadership fails.
'Clay stealing clay.'
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