Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Liars and Pipers

 

"Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love.   In this way the love of God was revealed to us: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him."

1 John 4:7-8

 

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

C. S. Lewis

 

“The pull of fascist politics is powerful.  It simplifies human existence, gives us an object, a 'them' whose supposed laziness highlights our own virtue and discipline, encourages us to identify with a forceful leader who helps us make sense of the world, whose bluntness regarding the 'undeserving' people in the world is refreshing.  Fascism thrives under conditions of economic uncertainty, where fear and resentment can be mobilized to set citizens against one another,

When you legitimize yourself entirely by inventing enemies, the truth ceases to matter, normal restraints of civilization and decency cease to matter, the checks and balances of normal politics cease to matter.

The dangers of fascist politics come from the particular way in which it dehumanizes segments of the population. It limits the capacity for empathy among other citizens, leading to the justification of inhumane treatment, from repression of freedom, mass imprisonment, and expulsion to, in extreme cases, mass extermination."

Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works

 

"Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege." 

Thomas Clement Douglas

 

Ask God to show you your sins, especially those to which you have been blinded, and so easily explain away and rationalize, out of habit and pride.

This is the beginning of our salvation, when we still have a choice for acceptance and true repentance.

Stocks were volatile again today, with deep lows and a bit of an afternoon recovery.

Big cap tech, the flag-bearers of this particular market bubble, led the way lower.

Gold and silver caught a bounce after the mugging dealt to the metals yesterday.

The Dollar chopped sideways.

As I have said before, underlying the equity market is a simmering volcano of mispriced risks.

Lies and manipulation are prevalent in far too many areas of our society. 

As people grow more cynical, abandoning their souls of themselves and their children for some material fear or advantage, the instability in the markets and social discourse will become more pronounced.

Of course they do not believe it, preferring to see the fault in 'them' and not in the madness of their own hardened hearts, often wrapped in fantasies of 'righteous anger' in response to some grievance.

It is a story as old as Babylon, and evil as sin.

Have a pleasant evening.

 

"Then it will be God without disguise; something so overwhelming that it will strike either irresistible love or irresistible horror into every creature.   It will be too late then to choose your side.   That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realised it before or not." 

C. S. Lewis, 1944

 

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Wall Street Banks: Where the Elite Meet to Cheat

 

"Day by day the money-masters of America become more aware of their danger, they draw together, they grow more class-conscious, more aggressive.

American political corruption was the buying up of legislatures and assemblies to keep them from doing the people's will and protecting the people's interests; it was the exploiter entrenching himself in power, it was financial autocracy undermining and destroying political democracy." 

Upton Sinclair, The Brass Check 

 

"The media is plain stupid — quick to accept guidance from economists on Wall Street, for example, who have a vested interest in making everything wonderful." 

John Crudele 

 

"This is the revenge of reality." 

Heinz Guderian, as quoted in Images of Kursk, July 1943

 

"If you have not chosen the kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.” 

William Law

 

Stocks were wobbly to gyrating this morning, but managed to stabilize and rise higher in very light first of the year volumes.

In the end, things are looking up and covid and its variants are no problem for the moneyed interests.

Everything is grist for their mill.

Gold and silver were mugged at the open.

The Dollar was higher.

Markets were acting like the yield curve will steepen and rates will rise--  except for stocks of course.

They're different this time.

A big chunk of physical gold took a walk in Hong Kong. 

 Have a pleasant evening. 

 

 

 

New Year

 

"The light will be with you only a little while longer.  Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness does not overtake you.   For whoever walks in darkness does not know where they are going." 

John 12:35 

“We are slow to master the great truth that even now Christ is, as it were, walking among us, and by His hand, or eye, or voice, bidding us to follow Him. We do not understand that His call is a thing that takes place now. We think it took place in the Apostles' days, but we do not believe in it; we do not look for it in our own case.

God's presence is not discerned at the time when it is upon us, but afterwards, when we look back upon what is gone and over. The world seems to go on as usual. There is nothing of heaven in the face of society, in the news of the day.

And yet the ever-blessed Spirit of God is there, ten times more glorious, more powerful than when He trod the earth in our flesh.

God beholds you. He calls you by your name. He sees you and understands you as He made you. He knows what is in you, all your peculiar feelings and thoughts, your dispositions and likings, your strengths and your weaknesses. He views you in your day of rejoicing and in your day of sorrow. He sympathizes in your hopes and your temptations. He interests Himself in all your anxieties and remembrances, all the risings and fallings of your spirit.

He encompasses you round and bears you in His arms. He notes your very countenance, whether smiling or in tears. He looks tenderly upon you. He hears your voice, the beating of your heart, and your very breathing. You do not love yourself better than He loves you. You cannot shrink from pain more than He dislikes your bearing it; and if He puts it on you, it is as you would put it on yourself, if you would be wise, for a greater good afterwards.

There is an inward world, which none see but those who belong to it. There is an inward world into which they enter who come to Christ, though to men in general they seem as before. If they drank of Christ's cup it is not with them as in time past. They came for a blessing, and they have found a work.

To their surprise, as time goes on, they find that their lot is changed. They find that in one shape or another adversity happens to them. If they refuse to afflict themselves, God afflicts them.

Why did you taste of His heavenly feast, but that it might work in you—why did you kneel beneath His hand, but that He might leave on you the print of His wounds?

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission -- I may never know it in this life but I shall be told it in the next.

I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught.

I shall do good, I shall do His work. I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place while not intending it if I do but keep His commandments.

Therefore I will trust Him. Whatever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him. If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him.

He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about.

He may take away my friends. He may throw me among strangers. He may make me feel desolate, make my spirits sink, hide my future from me -- still He knows what He is about.

These are suitable feelings towards this attractive but deceitful world.  What have we to do with its gifts and honours, who, having been already baptized into the world to come, are no longer citizens of this?  Why should we be anxious for a long life, or wealth, or credit, or comfort, who know that the next world will be every thing which our hearts can wish, and that not in appearance only, but truly and everlastingly?  Why should we rest in this world, when it is the token and promise of another?   Why should we be content with its surface, instead of appropriating what is stored beneath it?

To those who live by faith, every thing they see speaks of that future world; the very glories of nature, the sun, moon, and stars, and the richness and the beauty of the earth, are as types and figures witnessing and teaching the invisible things of God.  All that we see is destined one day to burst forth into a heavenly bloom, and to be transfigured into immortal glory.

May the Lord support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done.

Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.”

John Henry Newman

 

"He asked him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was distressed that he had said to him a third time, 'Do you love me?' and he said, 'Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.'  And he said to him, 'Feed my sheep.'

'Verily, verily, I say to you, when you were young, you dressed yourself, and walked where you liked: but when you are old, you will stretch forth your hands, and another will gird you, and take you where you would not like to go.'"

John 21:17-18

"Do not fear, for I have redeemed you, I have called you by name; you are mine."

Isaiah 43:1