Stocks and Precious Metals Charts – And Where They Make a Desert, They Call It Peace

‘He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world, and made sin so marvelous and evil so full of subtlety.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
‘In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upwardly mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely.’
Hunter S. Thompson
Stocks were drifting higher today on light volumes and the good news of a very large arms deal with Saudi Arabia. Few things are so immensely profitable for us than war, because its products contain their own need for replacements.
Gold and silver saw a little upside on weaker economic outlooks based on stagnant wages, weakening demand, and the continuing printing of money by the unproductive bushels in pursuit of mad and discredited economic theories.
There will be a Comex precious metals options expiration this Thursday the 25th.
Trump’s budget was revealed in absentia today.

This post was published at Jesses Crossroads Cafe on 22 MAY 2017.