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meanrevolutionrevolving creditrule of our warfaresafest bankssaudi arabiaschwarzmansecond coming Yeatssecond liensecuritizationselfish indifferenceservitudeship of foolssilver fundsilver importssilver price trendsilver standardsilver wheatonskewslwsnaressnarky cartoonssocietal panicsorows of empirespokesmodelsstarość nie radośćstate downgradestock returnssufferingsuicide squeezesurvivalismswap linesswap spreadstakers and makerstaxestech valuationstechnical tradetender merciestension tapethe big skimthe irresponsiblesthe lawthree stoogestitus brandsmatombstone mentalitytrading rulestrading systemstrading tipstragic falltrend following beta monkeystriple digit oiltwilight of the godsunderclassunholy Trinityunrestrained capitalismus consumeruseful idiotsvolumevon Moltkewarwar crimeswash tradeswe become what we hateweekend viewingwhat we servewhore of babylonwhy it matterswindow dressingworst yearswristslap finesÜbermensch"The dazzling and consuming act of pride that transformed the angel of light into a prince of darkness condemned him to an insatiable, desperate to acquire. The loss of the wellspring of life gives rise to an essentially inextinguishable thirst. The entire world can not fill the emptiness. Having fallen from the eternal, Satan's desires are endless and insatiable. Having fallen from pure Being, he seeks to possess. All he takes into himself he destroys."<br>Denis de Rougemont, Switzerland, 1944http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Jesse)Blogger10566125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-6685790035273812336Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:59:23 +00002026-06-25T17:17:12.213-04:00&nbsp; "The Lord requires you to act justly, and to love kindness and mercy, and to walk humbly with your God." Micah 6:8 "The dazzling and consuming act of pride that transformed the angel of light into a prince of darkness condemned him to an insatiable, desperate to acquire. The loss of the wellspring of life gives rise to an essentially inextinguishable thirst. The entire world can not fillhttp://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/06/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-time.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-6359416026536585731Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:34:09 +00002026-06-24T16:54:44.790-04:00&nbsp; "It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought." John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society, 1958 “War, a struggle between 'our people' and 'the enemy,' creates a polarized world in which 'the enemy' is easily objectified and removed from the community of human obligation. What the conservatives conceived of as http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/06/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_01667004040.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-4056719117015777884Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:55:59 +00002026-06-25T20:25:33.778-04:00&nbsp; "While everyone enjoys an economic party the long-term costs of a bubble to the economy and society are potentially great.&nbsp; They include a reduction in the long-term saving rate, a seemingly random distribution of wealth, and the diversion of financial human capital into the acquisition of wealth.&nbsp; The case for a central bank ultimately to burst that bubble becomes overwhelming.&http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/06/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-5618625990523186793Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:25:28 +00002026-06-22T16:32:21.926-04:00&nbsp; "Self-regulation is a vulnerable strategy in any human concern involving trust, but is absolute folly in an industry where the emphasis and incentives are based on the ruthless pursuit of performance at any cost, and where such behaviour is rewarded. There is little doubt that strong personality types can hijack an organization, a political party, a sub-culture, or even for a time a http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/06/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_01246406451.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-5808214498532320098Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:50:06 +00002026-06-19T18:09:58.176-04:00&nbsp; "Federal regulators are proposing changes to bank capital requirements, potentially reducing them for many U.S. institutions by altering risk-weighted asset calculations and G-SIB surcharges. While proponents argue this simplifies regulations and frees up capital for lending, rating agency Moody's warns of potential risks. Moody's emphasizes that lower capital requirements could lead http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/06/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-storm.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-238320303439904037Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:42:25 +00002026-06-17T16:43:42.777-04:00&nbsp; "Our wagon is prepared, and time revives us. All’s well that ends well. Still the fine’s the crown. Whatever the course, the end is the renown." Wm. Shakespeare, All's Well that Ends Well Act 4 No comments, just charts.It was an FOMC day.&nbsp;The usual shenanigans in the precious metals.Other than that, I did not pay much attention.&nbsp;A triple witch stock option expiration on http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/06/alls-well-that-ends-well.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-5692272447787155730Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:27:17 +00002026-06-16T17:55:00.140-04:00&nbsp; "Edge, Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon — was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-long project that cloaked eugenics, race science and sexual misconduct in Ivy League respectability. Whatever Edge was supposed to be, it became something sinister. The salon played yenta to billionaire money and http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/06/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-its.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-7667022111711063326Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:01:18 +00002026-06-15T16:04:21.250-04:00&nbsp; “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious.&nbsp; But it cannot survive treason from within.&nbsp; An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.&nbsp; But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself." Taylor Caldwell, A Pillar http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/06/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_02116637579.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-3120804154569298818Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:45:14 +00002026-06-12T16:59:56.156-04:00 "For we are the work God’s hands, created for a life of good works, prepared for us in Christ Jesus, that we may find life in them." Ephesians 2:10 "There's been a lot of talk in this race about what it means to be a real man.&nbsp; Recently on the campaign trail I told the story of my adoptive dad, Mark Talarico.&nbsp; Every Saturday morning, he would mow our lawn, and then without anyone http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/06/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-to-be.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-3941909608607344445Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:25:39 +00002026-06-11T22:40:34.444-04:00essere umanomoloch&nbsp; "Financial predators, on the other hand, are usually narcissistic and audacious criminals.&nbsp; They regularly have an extreme sense of entitlement coupled with high self-efficacy.&nbsp; Many of them have a charismatic quality and are preternaturally persuasive.&nbsp; Financial predators are commonly shameless and quite adept serial liars.&nbsp; They perceive themselves having near http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/06/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-as.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-954625222522045140Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:54:20 +00002026-06-10T16:54:20.242-04:00&nbsp;"I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race.&nbsp; Why should we not form a secret society with but one object — for the making the Anglo-Saxon race but one Empire.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is our duty to seize every opportunity of acquiring more territory and we should keep this one idea steadily before our eyes http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/06/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_0824664338.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-8799691960089127912Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:53:49 +00002026-06-09T17:19:52.088-04:00&nbsp; “An enthusiastic philosopher, of whose name we are not informed, had constructed a very satisfactory theory on some subject or other, and was not a little proud of it. 'But the facts, my dear fellow,' said his friend, 'the facts do not agree with your theory.' 'Don't they?' replied the philosopher, shrugging his shoulders, 'then, tant pis pour les faits' — so much the worse for the facts!'http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/06/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_0797669747.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-3820419174299785426Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:07:33 +00002026-06-08T18:38:28.372-04:00&nbsp; "I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil.&nbsp; I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy.&nbsp; It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants.&nbsp; A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man.&nbsp; Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy." G. M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary, 1947 "Narcissistic personalities care only for http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/06/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_0937591514.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-4132503394046091984Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:54:43 +00002026-06-05T17:56:55.002-04:00&nbsp; "In particular, over a protracted period of good times, capitalist economies tend to move from a financial structure dominated by hedge finance units to a structure in which there is large weight to units engaged in speculative and Ponzi finance." Hyman Minsky, The Financial Instability Hypothesis "Twenty-five years ago, when most economists were extolling the virtues of financial http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/06/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-is.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-3998624155757500905Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:22:34 +00002026-06-04T22:56:44.771-04:00&nbsp; “Prepare for battles.&nbsp; Know that you are now on a great stage where all heaven and earth are watching.&nbsp; But before I come as a Judge with justice, I will first open the door of My mercy.” Maria Faustina Kowalska, Divine Mercy, Kraków 1938 "You should become resigned to the fact that you will seem ridiculous to a race of janitors and bureaucrats if you are to enter the http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/06/prepare-for-battles.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-197399540582232135Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:40:02 +00002026-06-03T17:05:30.642-04:00&nbsp; "It would take a book of genius to demonstrate this truth, commonplace though it may be, that one must have suffered in order to be capable of love.&nbsp; Love is an act of the will, but pain is always a prior revelation to that very act, because man has places in his poor heart that do not yet exist — and into these suffering enters so they may have life. This is why martyrdom — the http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/06/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-3398754880518956430Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:32:59 +00002026-06-02T18:24:50.401-04:00&nbsp; "If heaven is seeing and in turn being seen, transformed and made new by the beatific face of pure love in resplendent glory, then hell must be seeing, at last and forever after, their own dark and miserable soul as it really is, alone." Jesse, Death By Overdose, 24 February 2015 "I was satisfied that I wasn't personally to blame and that I hadn't known about those things.&nbsp; I http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/06/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-we_01870735772.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-8090724797502546264Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:55:05 +00002026-06-01T17:19:46.440-04:00&nbsp; "Where such a shift in power is in favor of the governing elite, Power can now achieve its potential.&nbsp; Where the elite also has built-up frustrations regarding those who have lost power, or nonetheless feels threatened by them; where it sees them as outside the moral universe, or where it has dehumanized them; where the outgroup is culturally or ethnically distinct and perceived by http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/06/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-we.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-1181023931046215143Fri, 29 May 2026 20:46:41 +00002026-05-29T16:54:56.025-04:00&nbsp; "The end of all things draws closer.&nbsp; Therefore be serious and disciplined with your prayers. Above all, be constant in your love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins.&nbsp; Be kind to all without complaining.&nbsp; Like good stewards of the grace of God in its various ways, serve one another with whatever gift each of you has received.&nbsp; Whoever speaks must do http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/05/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-1482327567148824273Thu, 28 May 2026 20:29:28 +00002026-05-28T17:26:23.030-04:00&nbsp; "For the things of the world, the desire for physical pleasures, the envy for the things that we see, the pride in our possessions, are not from the Father.&nbsp; The world and its desires are passing away, but those who do the will of God remain forever." 1 John 2:16-17 "Greed, I say, is a great flood; it is a whirlpool sucking one down, a constant yearning, seeking a hold, continually http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/05/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_0612903667.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-5548909991128758379Wed, 27 May 2026 20:31:31 +00002026-05-27T17:00:15.056-04:00&nbsp; "They slander what they do not understand, and when they act by their animal appetites are destroyed. What sorrow awaits them.&nbsp; They follow the way of Cain, chase after wealth into Balaam’s error, and perish in the rebellion of Korah." Jude 10-11 "Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/05/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-to-be.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-7782876101203924645Tue, 26 May 2026 20:44:51 +00002026-05-26T17:02:17.524-04:00&nbsp; "And what is the origin of evil in us but pride?&nbsp; For 'pride is the beginning of sin.'&nbsp; And what is pride but the disproportionate desire for power and status?&nbsp; This happens when we esteem ourselves too high, when the soul turn away from God, the unchanging good it should cling to, and becomes an idol to itself." Augustine of Hippo, City of God, Book XIV,&nbsp; AD 420 "Forhttp://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/05/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_0937629417.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-5957290064015492562Mon, 25 May 2026 04:02:58 +00002026-05-25T17:59:17.610-04:00US Dollar Very Long Term Chart&nbsp; The DXY Index of the US dollar has a weighting against other currencies that made sense in the 1980s.&nbsp;It is heavily weighted to the Euro, the Yen, the Loonie, and the Pound. The Euro replaced the Deutsche Mark, which has recently lost some of its global significance as Europe struggles to find its place in a world of shifting power.A more useful index based on the current global http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/05/us-dollar-very-long-term-chart.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-3561858952045655150Fri, 22 May 2026 20:41:01 +00002026-05-22T17:02:09.259-04:00&nbsp; "In 1789 the Federalists adopted Alien and Sedition Acts in a shabby political effort to isolate the Republic from the world and to punish political criticism as seditious libel.&nbsp; In the 1920's the Attorney General of the United States degraded his office by hunting political radicals as if they were Salem witches.&nbsp; The Nation's only gain from his efforts were the classic http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/05/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_0513004317.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-2132713044469950553Thu, 21 May 2026 20:35:48 +00002026-05-21T16:54:43.208-04:00&nbsp; "Dishonor waits on perfidy.&nbsp; A man should blush to think a falsehood; 'tis the crime of cowards." Charles Johnson,The Sultaness, 1723 "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.&nbsp; The Government will not assail you.&nbsp; You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors.&nbsp; You have no oath http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/05/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_0690703017.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)