Stocks And Precious Metals Charts - Monday, May 22
“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
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.
I was wondering today, was Hillary really the lesser of two evils?
This is the shortcoming of Trump that so infuriates the more accomplished fakers, swine and hypocrites among our ruling elite — he is a clumsy liar and a terrible actor, and so rarely fails to spoil the public's illusions about our goodness.
Have a pleasant evening.
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