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against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray: and you, Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, thrust into Hell Satan and all of the other evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Jesse)Blogger10634125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-3195883888368423200Fri, 13 Nov 2026 21:06:00 +00002026-11-14T10:13:01.036-05:00  “Instead of flooding the entire economy with liquidity, and thereby increasing the danger of inflation, the Fed could support the stock market directly by buying market averages in the futures market, thereby stabilizing the market as a whole.” Robert Heller, Have Fed Support the Stock Market, WSJ, October 27, 1989 "Our future could be one in which continued tumult feeds the looting ofhttp://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/11/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_01698609901.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-10960034422099072Thu, 12 Nov 2026 21:19:32 +00002026-11-12T20:53:00.276-05:00  "Then Jesus was led, by the Spirit, into the wilderness, to be tempted by the devil. After fasting for forty days and forty nights, he hungered.  And the Tempter came to try him." Mark 4:1-2 This also recalls another passage so familiar that we also do not think of its implications. 'And lead us not into temptation...' Doesn't it seem odd and out of place that God would lead His http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/11/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_01939955280.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-3928531022679324670Wed, 11 Nov 2026 21:20:14 +00002026-11-11T16:29:47.480-05:00  Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. ‘Teacher,’ he said, ‘what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ And Jesus said to him, ‘What is written in the law? What do you read there?’ And the lawyer answered, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbour as yourself.’ And Jesus said to himhttp://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/11/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_01825087400.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-1065478293456779325Tue, 10 Nov 2026 21:05:50 +00002026-11-10T22:37:43.965-05:00  “Only fraud and falsehood dread examination. Truth invites it.” Samuel Johnson "A kleptocracy is sucking the life out of working men and women by force and fraud. A group of sociopaths, who have committed one of the great crimes in history, not only blithely walk away with their loot unpunished, but come back to rob their victims once again, to finish the job. And they gorge http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/11/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_0480932879.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-2785380649118610963Mon, 09 Nov 2026 21:12:55 +00002026-11-09T16:12:55.015-05:00  "The quiet words of the wise are worth more than the shouts of a ruler of fools.  Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinful man can destroy much that is good." Ecclesiastes 9:17-18 "Now the end is at hand. Now it is our task to find one another again, to spread information from person to person, to keep a steady purpose, and to allow ourselves no rest until the last man http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/11/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_01801634843.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-4888154484623213923Fri, 06 Nov 2026 21:24:15 +00002026-11-07T18:33:54.552-05:00  "A pretty, spoiled and not very bight little girl who had gone very, very wrong, and nobody was doing anything about it." Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep "One of the primary characteristics of narcissists is their exaggerated sense of entitlement. It's hardly surprising then that so many politicians somehow think they 'deserve' to game the system. After all, from their self-interested http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/11/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-long.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-8704542773395769115Thu, 05 Nov 2026 21:23:22 +00002026-11-05T16:30:51.916-05:00  "The reconfigured software became known as the spreadsheet. The functionality of the spreadsheet would enable CGML to sell a very large quantity of bonds rapidly and close to the mid­market price. In an electronic message sent between the Traders the trading strategy, utilising the spreadsheet, was nicknamed "Dr Evil" after a fictional character." FSA Statement on Fining http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/11/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-power.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-5945819018511354468Wed, 04 Nov 2026 21:31:42 +00002026-11-04T16:45:59.616-05:00  “In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.” Czesław Miłosz, Nobel Prize Acceptance, 8 December 1980 "Price discovery is not a sexy function of markets, but it is critical to the efficient allocation of scarce capital and resources, and to the preservation of the long term wealth of investors and the economy as a http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/11/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-dr.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-6043652166809139369Tue, 03 Nov 2026 20:57:14 +00002026-11-03T15:57:14.964-05:00  "In 1929 Wall Street was dominated by trading pools run by groups of insiders managed by an 'operator'. One of the most common tactics was to manipulate the price of a particular stock, a stock like Radio Corporation of America.  Wealthy investors would pool their money in a secret agreement to buy a stock, inflate its price and then sell it to an unsuspecting public.  Most http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/11/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-6620433953925533632Mon, 02 Nov 2026 21:22:02 +00002026-11-02T16:26:18.023-05:00  "But wisdom is justified by all her children.” Luke 7:35 "The souls of the virtuous are in the hands of God, no torment shall ever touch them. In the eyes of the unbelieving they appeared to die, their going looked like a tragedy, their leaving us, like a desolation; but they are at peace. God has put them to the test and proven them worthy to be with him; he has tested them like gold http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/11/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-world.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-594694219326291440Fri, 30 Oct 2026 22:56:49 +00002026-10-31T14:17:29.657-04:00  "This elite-generated social control maintains the status quo because the status quo benefits and validates those who created and sit atop it. People rise to prominence when they parrot the orthodoxy rather than critically analyze it. Intellectual regurgitation is prized over independent thought. Voices of the dispossessed, different, and un(formally)educated are neglected regardlesshttp://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/10/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_0528870016.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-6117142793648321834Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:08:31 +00002026-10-29T22:32:34.045-04:00  "According to Traudl Junge the Goebbels’ children sang for Hitler, who was very pleased to hear their song.  This innocent choir of young voices was soon murdered by its very mother, in the bunker, just before the mother herself committed suicide.  There is no academic phrasing suitable enough to describe the incomprehensibility of how mankind can achieve this nonsense, http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/10/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_01704407942.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-2996224208242693579Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:06:54 +00002026-10-28T16:06:54.097-04:00  "As with many personality disorders, those who are severely flawed of character, but especially the narcissist, when they face public disgrace, when they are outed as criminals or for their misbehavior, or when they fail in a very public way—that is when they become metastable, placing us as family, friends, co-workers, corporations, the public, or a nation in greatest danger.  When http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/10/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_0834616494.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-6435229798122955784Tue, 27 Oct 2026 19:55:28 +00002026-10-27T15:55:28.423-04:00 "Satan’s monomaniac concern with himself and his supposed rights and wrongs is a necessity of the Satanic predicament.  He has wished to ‘be himself,’ and to be in himself and for himself, and his wish has been granted.  To admire Satan, then, is to give one’s vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/10/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-my.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-7187196309606292281Mon, 26 Oct 2026 20:30:54 +00002026-10-26T16:36:00.909-04:00  "You shall not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you too were foreigners in the land of Egypt. You shall not take advantage of the widow or the orphan.  If you mistreat them and they cry out to me for help, I will surely hear their cry.  And my just fury will burn, and descend upon you like a sword. Your wives will be widows and your children will be orphans. If you lend http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/10/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_0129881321.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-3816292341834482394Fri, 23 Oct 2026 20:27:27 +00002026-10-23T16:27:27.395-04:00  "There can no longer, except for reasons of game-playing or more deliberate intellectual evasion, be any separation by economists between economics and politics.  When the modern corporation acquires power over markets, power in the community, power over the state, power over belief, it is a political instrument, different in form and degree but not in kind from the state itself.&nbsphttp://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/10/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_0497055694.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-7393106957798650523Thu, 22 Oct 2026 20:13:29 +00002026-10-22T16:26:51.769-04:00  March 1938, Anschluss And now, Austria. We have seen it coming for weeks.  Naturally, we sensed what it all meant, these threats and staged riots ... the whole shabby performance designed to provide an excuse for intervention.  And now tank and artillery columns are rolling down every street, under the command of agitated young SS men, and in my village, exactly as thoughhttp://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/10/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-we.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-2885499195258291339Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:30:49 +00002026-10-21T16:33:38.608-04:00  "Beauty is but a flower, That wrinkles will devour. Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died, young and fair. Dust hath closed Helen's eye. I am sick, I must die. Lord have mercy on us." Thomas Nashe, A Litany in Time of Plague, 1593 “The dead will lie on open fields,   like sheaves behind the reaper,   with no one to gather them. So let not the wise boast http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/10/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-this.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-5664706753524570272Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:17:34 +00002026-10-21T10:20:46.907-04:00  "Diary of a Man in Despair is Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen’s prophetic insight into the turmoil caused by the destruction of the ancient Prussian soul.  Lingering on after the deposing of the Kaiser, it was inexorably demolished by the carnal frenzy of the Nazi ideology which gave power to the German middle classes.  In this heady cocktail of sexual lust, greed and idealism, http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/10/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-wild.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-6155159953964296232Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:09:10 +00002026-10-19T16:09:32.212-04:00  Germany, October 1940 The latest is that the Great Man himself now has a mistress, named Eva Braun.  Of course, we all know what the circumstances are, and the lady should really be described as a maitresse en titre.  A prankish official who eavesdropped on a long-distance telephone conversation between the two of them has reported that Hitler figuratively cried on the http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/10/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-plus.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-7183269532306872705Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:17:39 +00002026-10-16T16:27:28.491-04:00  "They will cry out to me but I will not answer; they will search but will not find me.  For they hated knowledge and chose not to respect their Lord.  They refused to accept my commandments and spurned all my warnings.  Therefore they shall eat the bitter fruit of their ways, and be gutted by their schemes.   The foolish turn away from me — to death.&http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/10/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-8762597817433187851Thu, 15 Oct 2026 20:13:57 +00002026-10-15T16:14:24.794-04:00  "Some people feel an insatiable hunger for power.  They crave control and dominance over others, and are willing to do whatever it takes to achieve it, including climbing the political ladder.  Such individuals exhibit high levels of psychopathic and narcissistic traits, and are marked by a profound lack of empathy and remorse, which allows them to exploit and abuse others http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/10/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_0125035470.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-8593131357361886274Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:17:46 +00002026-10-14T23:35:39.415-04:00  "Countries differ in their economic success because of their different institutions, the rules influencing how the economy works, and the incentives that motivate people,” write Acemoglu and Robinson.  Extractive institutions, whether feudalism in medieval Europe or the use of schoolchildren to harvest cotton in contemporary Uzbekistan, transfer wealth from the masses to elites. In http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/10/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-389409200705143328Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:08:18 +00002026-10-13T16:08:48.104-04:00  "We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all our citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization." Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Speech to The American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, January 9, 1940 "I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever humanhttp://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/10/stocks-and-precious-metals-and-charts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-1183147740675582657Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:36:47 +00002026-10-12T18:57:34.512-04:00  "Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive." Sir Walter Scott We are back in the States, arriving late last night.Here are the state of the charts today.As you know US markets are closed for Columbus Day.Options expiration (run of the mill) coming up on Friday.Let's see what happens tomorrow.  http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/10/there-and-back-again.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)