first

edit: wow my first first, sorry I just could not resist: my heart is all a flutter

love the lull.

Beat me to it - that would deserve a hat tip cdellis - there ya go.

I'd be holding some Extorre and its a low ball buyout and I'd be voting no along with allot of others I'm sure just 4 months ago it was selling at 8$

any guarantees turd.....

You nailed it.

Their game is obvious at this point.

Appreciate it.

I think most of you will find the following vid interesting on some level.

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Today everyone is focusing on the Greek election, but that focus is totally misplaced.  The election makes no difference whatsoever to the outcome of this worldwide economic disaster.  Greece might be a catalyst, but a catalyst can come from anywhere.

-Egon von Greyerz

When this Depression starts, everyone will suffer; it's just a question of who suffers the least.

-Richard Russell

If Greece doesn't get its next loan installment, the Eurozone will collapse the following day."

-Alexis Tsipras, leader of the left-wing SYRIZA party.

I'm disclosing for the first time that the U.S. government has given JPMorgan the green light to manipulate the silver market.

-Ted Butler, renowned silver expert (Ted, I've "disclosed" this EVERY DAY for the past FIVE YEARS)

Unfortunately, the market reaction to the Spanish bank bailout was negative, with Spanish 10 year rate pushing past 7% for the first time since 1996.

-Deutschebank analyst

It's not about the Greeks.  It's not about the Spanish.  It's not about the Italians.  It's not about the English.  It's not about the Chinese.  It's about EVERYBODY.

-Gerald Celente

Greece has a total debt of about $1.3 trillion.  This is composed of their sovereign debt - which Europe counts - and their $90 billion in derivatives, Federally guaranteed regional debt, sovereign guaranteed bank and corporate debt,  obligations to the EU, and loans from other central banks.  It is simple addition, counting ALL the liabilities while Europe does not.  Then take Greece's GDP and divide by its total debt, and you get a debt to GDP ratio of around 453%.

-Mark Grant

When the banking institutions need the money, central banks - whether it's the ECB, the Fed, the BoE, or a new global Central superbank - will print and print and print.

-Ron Paul

So  BIS   will hold Tier One Standards until 2017, they  will will they? Look  this guy wears more hats than a Miami Beach  Milliner,  and evidently he has just returned from  more of those juvenile delinquent  war games with his pals in Arlington. There is disingenuous, thats borderline acceptable in  some quarters, and then  there is total  unmitigated horseshit, .. so  lets postulate its this weekend, after all we have to  20  idiot Gs sweating it out in  Mexico, and its not the heat.

so if I understand this correctly--if everybody knows that wednesday the cartel or fed or boyz or ee or somebody will smash PM -and enough of us know it--and expect an up day tomorrow-then late tomorrow we in fact do the dirty work and start selling. Great.

I agree completely with Turd's analysis that the Cartel's pattern of conduct has been to beat down the precious metals on days when Bernanke addresses Congress.  However, here is my concern.  Turd's blog is widely read, and undoubtedly it is monitored by the Cartel.  At what point will the Cartel decide that so many people are wise to their current tricks, that they change over to something new? 

After all, the beat downs on days that Bernanke speaks before Congress are a fairly new phenomenon, probably only dating back to February.  If they mixed up their tactics before, they will do it again - just to mess with us!  

Bibi seems to want to keep his people safe and his culture intact. Maybe we can get Bibi to talk to these people and get them to stop interfering in our right to protect ours:

http://www.ajc.org/site/c.ijITI2PHKoG/b.6447751/k.95B1/Immigration.htm

AJC Statement on Supreme Court Hearing Arizona vs. United States
From its founding in 1906, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) has been a strong voice in support of fair and generous treatment of immigrants, participating actively in many of the major immigration debates of our time. In advocating for these policies, AJC acts in accord with the American Jewish community’s longstanding interest in, and commitment to, a United States immigration and refugee policy that represents our nation’s best traditions. According to Jewish tradition, "strangers" are to be welcomed and valued, as we were once "strangers in the land of Egypt." From its inception, AJC has condemned S.B.1070"

or this plotter:

In regards to Jim Rickards being the ultimate predictor of all things market related I must note that not too long ago he said that that QE# would begin when the Euro traded at 1.30. Take a look at where the Euro is now and no sign of QE3 yet. The bottom line is that no one is infallible and no one knows exactly what is going to happen. It is a game of probabilities and as Turd says there are patterns albeit they are patterns that change subtly over time that can make money with good money management principles being in place.