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Today marks the final day of trading for the Jun22 Comex gold options. As usual, we're seeing shenanigans and, as usual, we all knew about it ahead of time.

And this is how you use "Manipulation Analysis" to your advantage. I'm not sure if anyone was considering the purchase of an...

Today's US economic data is gloomy and points toward worsening conditions and eventual recession. The amount of time before Powell Pivot II kicks in just got shorter.

As discussed in yesterday's podcast, we already have Goons Bullard and Bostic starting to walk back rate hike...

The week begins with the usual Comex shenanigans but the bigger concern is with how it will end. There's a lot of economic data between now and then and an even longer list of potential unknowns, particularly with this Monkeypox stuff.

So welcome to Monday. I hope you had a nice...

This seems strange. Every Friday has market-moving news whether it's a BLSBS or some sort of other economic datapoint. But today, there's nothing and, left to its own devices, CDG and CDS are going slowly melting away and taking with them any chance of a weekly close above $1840 or $22....

What's this? Bonds are up and the POSX is down?? When's the last time that happened??? And the TIP is up, too???? And the GDX is up over a full point????? Goodness me, how can that be?

OK, so maybe things haven't changed THAT much. After all, the 200-day moving...

It's just another day in the barrel for Comex precious metals so let's a couple of other items that have crossed my screen this morning.

First of all, welcome to Wednesday...in all its glory. The POSX is up while bonds catch a safe haven bid as the S&P is down 70 points. Yeehaw....

That is the question. For yours truly, the end result has always been stagflation and the US (and world) is definitely headed in that direction. But today's economic data seemed to forestall the recession talk for now and that has helped to drive the Comex metals backward...again.

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I don't like Mondays. I want to shoot the whole day down.

Let's hope that this week will be different from last week...or the week before that...or the week before that. It didn't start out particularly well. Did you catch this little beauty overnight? Nothing to see here, of course....

Don't you feel that way, too? I mean, come on. The Comex precious metals have done nothing but go straight freaking down for weeks and, at some point, you feel like none of it even matters anymore. Which is precisely why we are now likely at an intermediate low.

In fact, I wouldn't be...

Unwittingly or not, The Fed has created a black hole of rising nominal rates and a rising POSX and this beast is now consuming nearly all "markets".

I'm a little late getting started because I spent some time this morning watching a press conference where some astronomers and...