For eeos… Denver Union Station the way it used to be.
http://www.railpictures.net/photo/691888/

Is her name MAXINE, perchance??  🙂

chicago, facing bankruptcy, elects a black lesbian to be the new mayor.

Wow! That must have been stressful. Good thing you kept your head and you had some cash in hand.

Price to sales ratio hit 2.17 just a whisker away from the all time high of 2.2 So fill your boots on the most expensive stock market ever when it breaks to new highs. What could possibly go wrong!

Beyond Sketchy’: Facebook Demanding Some New Users’ Email Passwords

https://www.thedailybeast.com/beyond-sketchy-facebook-demanding-some-new-users-email-passwords

https://www.americassilvercorp.com/news-releases/2019/americas-silver-releases-highlights-from-el-cajon-and-zone-120-pre-feasibility-study/

Is a glimpse into reality Where the slime balls in NYC are getting a run for their money. They have a hard time controlling it compared to gold and silver

despite all my optimism…

The last hour shellacking arrives as usual, with the shares getting crushed and crumbling

Weaker USD was a huge help today.

where your cash is,because they are coming for it….I had a very small account at a local brokerage during this time, because I knew the broker .I was unhappy with this local broker and decided to move the account to another local broker.There was one stock in the cash account .I told the receiving broker I was concerned that a market drop might occur before he could  receive the stock ..I ordered an acats transfer telling the receiving broker I was going to sell the stock when he received it .He suggested I sell it short the 1000 shares at $28.00 and when the ACATS transfer took place he would cover it with the stock still in transport between brokers. Normally thats not a problem..Problem ..when the market crashed everybody grabbed  and froze accounts until they each decided what was in their best interest.The guy that shorted the stock had $28,000 of MY money ,but demanded I put up margin money until he received the stock…I pointed out he shorted the stock at $28 ,its now $11 after the crash ,but he’s got $28,000 cash Whats your Fucking Problem ! I said….you …idiot. The ACATS transfer was basicly in lockdown .nothing was going to give ..just wait till the transfer finalizes…He kept calling and demanding money for no reason,he had the CASH …Finally neither one of these idiot local brokers would co operate with each other.

I finally called a GUY at Smith Barney in NY that had be pestering me for some business,I said look I shorted a stock at this guy ,and have not received the stock from the other guy because they froze everything. If you can force these other two guys to obey the law and do what they are supposed to do I ‘ll give you some business.WELL he did it and that how  it got squared away. Ill never do business with Local companies again….NY only for me..

MORAL of the story ,know where your cash is all the time ,dont give in to demands for money when your right.

I didnt owe any of these idiots any money ! It was a cash account.!

Folks forget that the FED printed up Trillions. They can’t wrap their heads around how big that is and how long it’ll take to burn off that much money in hookers, blow, and stawks. The collapse, will of course, be epic.

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facefuck up $15 in 3 days tells me all I need to know about this fraud market

we all know there is official sector interference in the gold mkt…that said…there has been an accumulation of gold bullish macro factors lately–the most gold bullish of all of them is the throwing in of the towel by ALL the world CBs and the no longer covert policy of unlimited quanitative easing…so all I am saying, is with that set up…plus going into a potential weak jobs report…the risk/reward to being long some PM exposure is good currently…I said 2 days ago when I issued to the world my R640 buy signal to the world (snigger!), that I expected gold to “get its footing”…which it has been doing yesterday and today…then take off on some king of rally…maybe that will happen. Friday…also stocks are stretched to the upside…and if they sell off on Friday, that would only help gold…this is not a high confidence call…but if I wait for technical confirmation, then 40% of the move would be over…

http://www.fsb.org/work-of-the-fsb/implementation-monitoring/monitoring-of-priority-areas/basel-iii/

aurum

I think it was ororeef who had doubts about how Basel III would affect gold.  His scepticism of the many pumps on sites about it’s effect on gold lead me to a little research.

Gold will be Tier 1 but only with an 85% hedge.  The current hedge is 50%.

Will Basel III Send Gold to the Moon, Report 2 Apr

aurum

My wife and I started a business 40 years ago that we are still running . I think we are a little smaller than your scale, ha, about a dozen employees. Your last comment about keeping control of the cash is a good lesson for all gold bugs. Just substitute physical gold for cash; nobody else gets control of the physical. Wouldn’t it be nice to have so much that we had to use a vault, dreaming.

Ipso – yeah, I know – hard to believe I perform a job where I have to be an optimist…:)

Maddog – I’m afraid to look at the pm charts, somehow I’m guessing that all those golden crosses we saw a month ago have since been negated. To be sure, they can never let the SM go down again, it’s just too important to the pension system. I wish I had realized that 10 years ago.

They also can never let pm’s run to the upside either because that would indicate a crisis of confidence.

I’d like a complete do over on my life…

Dear Goldie,The Margin call was a story by itself….I was having problems with my Franchise Co. They had the Company for sale and would guarentee a 15 % net to the proposed buyer in order to get the promised 300 million price.They were pushing Franchisees to the breaking point trying to extract as much as possible from them.

I had a $10,000 savings that was to be used to make a once a year additional rent payment .They were being a bunch of pricks with me ,so I used thier rent payment to buy some time with the broker. Wesley said “If you can send me some money ,I can buy some time with all the confusion going on in Wall ST…Everybody was grabbing cash anywhere they could.That led to the plan..I had one hour to wire the money to Alex Brown INC the Broker in NYC or I would be sold out .I ran out of the business.. to the Bank and asked the Manager to WIRE them the $10,000 I had saved for the rent payment before noon .the Bank manager said he could get it there.He was well aware of what was going on in Wall st.,but didnt know why I had the $10,000 saved.Withen minutes Wesley called me back ,,we bought some time ,he said hope for a bounce off the bottom ,then be prepared to start selling and raising cash to get back to required Margin amounts..It worked ! I got a bounce back and started selling .. I had 50,000 various shares in a few companies.Every point up was $50,000 …..at one point ,I got there  ! Finally I said to myself…IMMM BACKKKKK…  I chuckled at the thought of my preditory Franchisor fighting with the Broker who wanted to sell me out at the bottom. for the $10,000….I figured screw both of them,they were both willing to sell me out at the worst possible time. My plan worked  ,in the end everybody got paid….because I kept control of the cash.

The Islamic State, or ISIS, has claimed it kidnapped and killed a Canadian geologist in Burkina Faso three months ago, according to the latest issue of the propaganda newsletter Al-Naba, circulated last week.

Halifax, Nova Scotia-based Kirk Woodman, vice-president of exploration for private gold explorer Progress Minerals, was found dead on Jan. 16 in rural Burkina Faso, after having been abducted a day earlier.

ISIS claims kidnapping and killing Canadian geologist in Burkina Faso

“Breathtakingly Terrible Idea”: Top Democrat Proposes Taxing Unrealized Capital Gains

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-02/breathtakingly-terrible-idea-top-democrat-proposes-taxing-unrealized-capital-gains

That was somewild ride. I’m glad you were up to it. You should write a book on it. I’d buy it. I don’t understand how you survived the margin call without losing everything. Sad about your broker, he sounded like a good guy. Perhaps he was on blood thinners. The levels have to be watched frequently. If I were a scientist I’d figure out a finger stick method they could do every week.
I think all men over 50 should get a EKG and blood work up every year. They don’t do any physicals anymore either. If they did they would of caught my brother before he died of congestive heart failed they didn’t even notice two months prior. He was going too much weight. I could see it in a picture when he was doing community service collecting donations for Christmas picture. His color wasn’t good. Tell them to see a doctor NOW you have to tell them to ask the doctor what to check! You go to the doctor you won’t get much and might not even read the results of any blood tests.
If they don’t do a ekg on you yearly tell them your having heart palpations.
I have a test for circulation and it came back no circulation problems, I go to the doctor and had another doctor they come and go from other countries and she says so you have circulation issues. I said no, I had a test and asked her if she read the results??!!

Monday saw a Dow Theory Buy signal, thus cancelling the December Sell signal. Yesterday the Nasdaq almost saw a Golden cross, but is well on one today, so that completes the Dow and S&P…the dow crossed 19 Mch and S&P 1 Apr…..so yes all systems go !!!!!

You’re such an incurable optimist!