21 June 2017

The Trend That Will Shake the Nation


"Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started."

Mary Midgley


"Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that create huge inequalities.

We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal that we continue to sow destruction, pain, and death."

Pope Francis I

It is a very perverse view of life that fundamental necessities like healthcare are being portrayed as a discretionary purchase that people make because they 'like it.'

Oh yes, I am enjoying having Multiple Sclerosis, or cancer, or some other chronic illness because it allows me to go out and spend money I don't have on overpriced drugs protected by government sanctions from corporate monopolies.  And the fact that I am unfortunate is all my fault because I am obviously a life unworthy of life.

And endless war in support of the formation and maintenance of some vast global order that the imperial state controls is a necessity whose enormously extravagant costs must never be questioned.

This attack on the fundamentals of human existence is being supported by propaganda campaigns and corruption of thought and basic decency not all that dissimilar from the same sort of trash that early on formed the basis for those actions that we have rightly condemned as crimes against human life in the past century.

How blinded to the consequences of our actions are we are becoming.

What other basic necessities of life will the anti-humans continue to price out of reach, using their power and influence in order to feed a mania to bring more and more of the public to its knees in service to their debt and desire for basic survival?

Look for the public to start looking farther afield to find alternatives as the Republicans and the Democrats continue to abandon them in their service to Big Money.

The greatest things in Nature start slowly and quietly, but continue to gather force until they overwhelm the works of men.  

This is nemesis, the the inescapable agent of the downfall of an over-reaching arrogance driven by an obsession to be as gods, and have the power of life and death.






20 June 2017

Stocks and Precious Metal Charts


“People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence.”

Václav Havel








18 June 2017

Bernie Sanders on BBC Show Hardtalk


Updates will be sporadic this week.

The queen is in hospital for treatment of dehydration, observation and testing.

The interviewer in the video below is Stephen Sackur.

I thought Bernie handled him brilliantly.





Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Blues en Mineur 1940


"Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have life."

Léon Bloy

There was a stock option expiration for June on this Friday past as noted on the option calendar below.

There will be a Comex option expiration for the precious metals on June 27th which is the Tuesday after next.

The economic news still indicates an economy that is faltering on the edge of a sustainable recovery. The biggest problem is still the lack of real income (wage) growth among the breadth of the participants in the real economy.

I am afraid that the deck is still stacked pretty much against the 99% because of financial, regulatory, and political distortions in favor of the wealthiest few at the expense of the many.

Next week is a bit light on economic news. That calendar is also included below as well as the results of economic announcements for this week past.

See you next week.






15 June 2017

A Few Select Charts


The Lord is my light and my salvation—
       whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life—
       of whom shall I be afraid?

Psalm 27

I will most likely update the regular charts into the weekend.  It may be on Saturday.  We have tests and a doctor appointment tomorrow.

Have a pleasant evening.






14 June 2017

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Dollar Dipsy-Doodle - A Brief Ray of Light


There are three ledgers that are kept for us in God's economy:  kindness, compassion, and love.

Janet made hawkish noises to go along with the 25 bp interest rate increase today.

I don't think they will be raising rates much more this year, if the economy is doing as badly as the data and the fundamentals seem to indicate to me.

The US dollar plunged on the rotten economic news this morning.   And then rallied hard this afternoon on the Fed's hawkish noises.  A chart of that intraday is below.

The queen was in the emergency room this weekend, and will be going in for some more tests on Friday. She had a major seizure and fell and hit her head on the refrigerator last Thursday, and that has introduced some additional concerns and problems and challenges to care.

I am catching sleep as I can during the day mostly, and watching the queen pretty much all the time otherwise.  Even if I fall asleep in the chair I am positioned to hear her if anything is going on.  She has a tendency to get up and try to do things on her own, which is not wise. On Sunday night I stopped her choking on her own regurgitation.

Right now one of our angel friends is sitting with her, while I run out to pick up some prescriptions.

Have a pleasant evening.