Loading ...Sorry for your tragic loss. You are not alone with that procedure depending on type of pricedure and blood work prior to it then carefull watch after. The shock of the loved ones especially when they are still young. No use bringing up a painful subject now. Many here have lost a other relatively young so your not alone. My daughter in laws mother is currently in ICU. She must be a strong woman. She was hit with pericarditis, clots to both lungs, nephritis all at once. Any one that can kill. Then after showing some improvement she developed a reaction to antibiotics and back in ICU. She was okay one minute not fine the next. She was not aware she had SLE, Lupus. All her children can do is pray and hope, she is all they have and only 52.
Another walkway to this evening chat, smile
An insight, from the old pathway. I once saw an event called WTC7….and we all marveled at the fact…this could not happen!!. This evening, we, the old and new crew gathered here , marvel that there is another illusionary event transpiring…a bitcion to replace the illusion ( fiat/debt dollar exchange which was created and controlled to date by the masters…long sentence..far better men have endeavor to protect you from them). My point, just who is naive enough to believe that this new marvel, that defies all logic is ?. Digital, non-taxed, outside the realm of the masters , wealth instruments, could continue but , I , hate to waste your intelligence ? smile.
Where, can I begin? We all witnessed the last decades of killing fields…… The defined word Iraq… will be written .someday as…war crimes/ AND we all knew and were silent …again I digress. I have no words to describe the harm on all wasted men and women.
The bit coin venue of test to end game control. It would be all digital and there lays the last ultimate control. The ultimate dream of power and …words,
you and I cannot imagine to their damming dimension of global new world order.
buildings do not free fall…there is no free world digital wealth exchange which is not created or controlled outside of them..
Regarding these last years..someday..these times will be reviewed , I hope..
what and how could good people be so …and then the masters closed the gate.
R640 – yes she definitely was !
I saw her once for about five seconds when we passed on a mall escalator and never forgot her . Ten years later a colleague at work began pestering me to meet his wife’s cousin , after I had returned from a year long assignment out of state . I put him off every month from January to August , when I finally gave up and agreed to meet his wife’s cousin . The cousin was Darla . It was an instant take on both sides , and we spent the next twenty years together until I lost her to a botched relatively simple hospital procedure . ( She was on coumadin and had a small blockage leading to her heart . A balloon angioplasty resulted in internal bleeding which was not noticed until several hours later when her heart stopped due to blood loss .)
Who could forget this ?
Silverngold, once you mentioned that in a former venture you nurtured Sitka spruce and
other conifer seedlings before they were outplanted in forest renewal areas. I thought you might appreciate this view of a Sitka spruce I planted as an 8-inch seedling in 2012. The spruce is ringed with stucco wire to deter browsing by Columbia black-tailed deer and the range pole beside the wire ring is 
2-meters tall, with each red or each white segment representing 50 cm of height.
I am more than satisfied with the height growth of this little spruce. I view it as a symbol of our PM-related assets accumulated since 2012 – holding steady, and with tremendous potential for a rapid spurt of height growth once it gets through its juvenile stage, Cheers. Equiz
Alex Valdor 1 – Scum 0
Nice call Alex and congrats on the JNUG buy.
Geesh, I hope the bottom is in….
Bob Moriarty
CEO Technician: Last week former Fed Chairman Allan Greenspan came out and said he sees stagflation coming. Stagflation is something we saw in the ‘70s with surging food and energy prices while the economy was weak.
Bob Moriarty: He’s wrong.
CEO Technician: Why is he wrong?
Bob Moriarty: It’s not coming, it’s already here. We’ve already got a weak economy. The retail economy in the US is a total disaster, take a look at the number of retail closures. We’ve got a subprime auto crisis going on and the defaults are already beginning to pile up. Greenspan is wrong in that we’re already in stagflation. Inflation is far higher than any of the indicators are showing; the price of oil is masking the price increases in everything else. The price of oil is going to go back up and when it does Americans are going to be in for quite a shock. The automobile industry is a disaster, the financial industry is a disaster, the banking system is a disaster. We have already started the great crash.
Alex–the strong close in the HUI and JNUG indicate another day of gains tomorrow
even thought the comex gold gain–3.90 wasn’t much
Now I definitely remember!! So sorry about your wife…she looks
utterly charming…
R640 – At the time I lived near Pittsburgh , PA
and we were headed north – either to Boston or to Nova Scotia via Portland ME. I believe your wife was on duty , so it was probably a work day ( M-F ) . My wife’s name was Darla – a very charismatic ( and beautiful ) woman .
When we would walk into a room together , every eye in the room would be on Darla , and you would hear ‘Hi Darla !’ ‘ Hi Darla ‘ from all corners . Then a few minutes later , someone would say to me ‘ OH ! Hi Alex – when did you get here ?’ I am very low key and was happy that Darla drew all the attention .
Maybe this will bring back the memory …if I have done it correctly and you can see it .
Winedoc
Winedoc
I’m not so worried about having our day with phyzz although won’t complain about it either.
That remind me of watching people play the roulette table in Vegas.
Id see those who would bet on the red or black. They’d pick a number and say ” it’s due” red hit three times in a row so they’d bet on black and red would hit again. So they’d do it again and again it’s due but no luck. Thats not what I saw but a pattern but can’t let them know about it or they’d ask you to leave for winning. Too bad it was only a 25 cent table to experiment on my hypothesis that I played after watching them on higher tables.
I watched men at the crap tables throwing 100 dollar chips on one time numbers that pays big it it hits then like they were bragging about how much money they lost. I lost this much, well I lost this much. I’m thinking why did they do it? We’re they feeling guilty about their money they had to get rid of it or was free money so easy come easy go lol I think it was more than just the money to them. It was like some kind of importance to them among others doing the same like prestige.
A hour of prestige then they walk away broke and never see these people again. That made no sense to me. Kinda goes against self preservation. M Maybe they were bankers.
With PMS its no long term investment other than phyzz but even with phyzz you wouldn’t want to be buying at the top. If you only invested in PMs for retirement in the late 70 s to 80 and even beyond you’d probably be broke because many of those stocks are no longer around. It’s also something you have to watch more carefully and not sub normally hold only to give back gains.
As far as the phyzz They are trying to talk PMs down even cash over electronic money. Almost a sort of arrogance to have a card or phone now to pay for things. Cash is so out of vogue. I bet they never been at a gas station when the ATM wasn’t working and you needed gas only if you had cash.
That one post I passed on pointed out how their trying to camouflage risk which Vix may not show.
I think their purpose has a different meaning than just trying to accumulate themselves a drop that they are trying to make a cashless system globally which is say not a good idea on so many levels including power outs. Most of us knows why.
Phyzz is a threat to that so let’s talk it down.
If they ever did pull it off the Phyz would become a scarce underground commodity especially with banks can’t be trusted and the first threat of a bail in of 50% of their savings would wish they had it. I hope people don’t become so lazy with cards they don’t see what a treat that could be to their future and very survival on so many levels.
It could result in a barter system most aren’t prepared for in this time and age. The greedy ones thinking this up don’t even realize what disaster that would be to them as no doubt it would lead to civil unrest of epic proportions. Something like the Arab spring. The world revolves around them including our money.
Theres no amount of money wishing doom and gloom or young parents not being able to feed their babies for personal profit. Nor would I prostitute out my family or put it in harms way for it like Merkel is doing in Europe and would do here if she could get away with it. Last high in 80 s wasn’t anything like that.
R 640 – Meant to thank you for your posts – particularly the past week or two
It was after one of your posts , two or three weeks ago that I decided the bottom had to be close and put in my ‘good until cancelled’ limit bid for JNUG , which was accepted Friday. I should have bid a few cents lower , perhaps , but I am satisfied.
BTW I remember having lunch with you in White Plains almost fifteen years ago when my late wife was still alive . I had a lot more money then , but the ride since has been ‘eventful ‘. That was back in the days of Dr. Vronsky , when we were all praying for Viva 500 – hoping to see gold reach the seemingly impossible level of $500 an ounce . A few years earlier I put about the equivalent of about 150 ounces of gold into the restoration of a Lincoln convertible ( similar to the JFK death car ) , thinking it would be a decent investment . Well , today I would be lucky to get 30 ounces for it … an 80% loss .
Should’a bought more gold instead !…and should have stayed away from real estate , too , except for undeveloped land which I still have . I could probably sell the hardwood for more than I paid for that land .
Alex Valdor @ 9:08
Thanks for the info. Very interesting.
goldielocks @ 5:38
Very good on that, good points you made.
Portugeezer @ 4:09
I thank you for that comeback, very good on that.
Maya – LOL – your 1:51 Californication
Back in the 1950’s there was a song called ‘I’m my own grandpaw ‘ which was similar in concept . Had a great laugh – thanks !
Goldi 08:20 Lunch Break
V tac ……
I like that!!
We will have our day …..
Winedoc
How many days have we had like this lately? The stocks/etfs are frisky but comex gold
is unlikely to print more that up a buck or two–and yo-yo up and down all day–that has not produced more than a days scalp…let’s see, the day is young…
“Muddle through” Mauldin insisting that a crisis is near….
Re-entering the news flow was a jolt, and not in a good way. Looking with fresh eyes at the economic numbers and central bankers’ statements convinced me that we will soon be in deep trouble. I now feel certain we will face a major financial crisis, if not later this year, then by the end of 2018 at the latest. Just a few months ago, I thought we could avoid a crisis and muddle through. Now I think we’re past that point. The key decision-makers have (1) done nothing, (2) done the wrong thing, or (3) done the right thing too late.
Having realized this, I’m adjusting my research efforts. I believe a major crisis is coming. The questions now are, how severe will it be, and how will we get through it? With the election of President Trump and a Republican Congress, your naïve analyst was hopeful that we would get significant tax reform, in addition to reform of a healthcare system that is simply devastating to so many people and small businesses. I thought maybe we’d see this administration cutting through some bureaucratic red tape quickly. With such reforms in mind I was hopeful we could avoid a recession even if a crisis developed in China or Europe.
Six months in, the Republican Congress that promised to repeal and replace Obamacare, cannot even agree on the process. For six years they discussed what to do, and you would think they might at least have a clue.
Tax reform? I’ve been talking with several of the Congressional leaders about tax reform, pointing out that without major tax reform this country is in danger of falling into a recession. No tinkering around the edges. Real change requires real change. There is now talk of having a tax bill of some kind ready to discuss in September and possibly pass in November, which, with this Congress, means that the process is likely to drift into next year sans a major push by the leadership. There is no consensus. No less an authority on the actual political process than Newt Gingrich wrote a very sharply worded column this week, declaring, “That legislative schedule is a recipe for disaster.” As Newt points out, if we are going to see any positive economic effect from tax reform, a bill has to be passed soon and implemented. Newt’s column was actually fairly discouraging to me. Knowing him as I do, I can tell you he wasn’t happy to have to write it. While I disagree with him on some of his tax-reform proposals, I agree that we need something significant and soon.
There has been some progress on the bureaucratic and regulatory fronts, but nowhere near what I’d expected. Appointments haven’t been made, and the bureaucracy is still in control of most of the levers of the economy.
Short covering in the shares
Metals still look horrible but shares don’t want to seem to give up much ground early.
Going to start looking at that VIX/Metals correlation….why the heck not?
Makes me sick … and feeling sorry for the average German
Merkel Migrant Blowback Begins: “Chechen Sharia Police Terrorize Berlin”
◦Threats of violence against “errant” women are viewed as “acts of patriotism.”
◦”They have come to Germany because they wanted to live in Germany, but they keep trying to turn it into Chechnya with its medieval ways.” — Social worker interviewed by Meduza.
◦”Everyone’s attention is fixed on the Syrians, but the Chechens are the most dangerous group. We are not paying sufficient attention to this.” — Police in Frankfurt (Oder).
A hundred Islamists are now openly enforcing Sharia law on the streets of Berlin, according to local police who are investigating a recent string of violent assaults in the German capital.
The self-appointed morality police involve Salafists from Chechnya, a predominantly Sunni Muslim region in Russia. The vigilantes are using threats of violence to discourage Chechen migrants from integrating into German society; they are also promoting the establishment of a parallel Islamic legal system in Germany. German authorities appear unable to stop them.
The Sharia patrol came to public light in May 2017, when Chechen Salafists released a video warning other Chechens in Germany that those who fail to comply with Islamic law and adat, a traditional Chechen code of behavior, will be killed. The video’s existence was reported by Meduza, a Russian-language independent media organization based in Latvia. The video, which circulated through WhatsApp, an online messaging service, showed a hooded man aiming a pistol at the camera. Speaking in Chechen, he declared:
“Muslim brothers and sisters. Here, in Europe, certain Chechen women and men who look like women do unspeakable things. You know it; I know it; everybody knows it. This is why we hereby declare: For now, there are about 80 of us. More people are willing to join. Those who have lost their national identity, who flirt with men of other ethnic groups and marry them, Chechen women who have chosen the wrong path and those creatures who call themselves Chechen men — given half a chance, we will set all of them straight. Having sworn on the Koran, we go out onto the streets. This is our declaration of intent; do not say that you were not warned; do not say that you did not know. May Allah grant us peace and set our feet on the path towards justice.”