I agree - this is getting ugly very rapidly. Everyone around me now realizes how bad things are fundamentally. I've been pretty down lately, disgusted by the continued interventions.

The Fed and the Treasury officials need to stop thinking linearly, and start thinking in terms of cycles, big picture, and waves.

Since the Dow and Gold are going close to parity (now about 7), wouldn't it be better to allow gold to rise so that the pressure on the Dow would be less in nominal terms? In other words, is it really too much to ask that the silly games end, that we let gold up so that those who positioned themselves CORRECTLY profit, rather than the "Club" with their "riskless" trades, as Martin Armstrong says in his piece, "It's Just Time"?

Apparently, there may be something big coming in the next few weeks, according to his 8.6 year cycle that should complete March 19, 2009. Perhaps then the games will end, and gold will break convincingly free of $1000 and the Perma-Shorts are finally squeezed out?