despite the stock mkt. rally…I couldn’t figure it out–insiders-as always-were notified…the 10 yr note is up a big 41/64ths tonite.
Maya @ 20:21
Crazy ain’t it! I’d hold out for at least a dollar. 🙂
PS Anyone who would vote for Inslee for anything is certifiable.
Too many young men are dying at JPMorgan
Just a co-incidence they all have BIG Life Insurence Policys payable to JPMORGAN ,,,so if you dont produce earning for them ,you might produce a windfall for them when you die ..Co-incidence ..I dont believe so….
If Morgan is going to pay you a BIG SALARY ,you must produce enough earnings for them to justify it…or else! One way or another Morgan gets big money .. back ….Its not a GOOD idea to be worth more DEAD than Alive ! ever !
JPMorgan Managing Director Dies Suddenly; Has Links to Other JPM Deaths
As Bank Deaths Continue to Shock, Documents Reveal JPMorgan Has Been Patenting Death Derivatives
Ipso – Maybe you could sell your future value ?
Washington State to allow Composting of Human Beings.
I can think of a few ‘Green New Deal’ politicians that need immediate composting.
eeos – Big Boy
Only 24 of the 4000-series “Big Boy” locos were made. There are several on static display at various railroad museums around the country. None were in running condition, but may have been static-rigged to whistle, lights, etc. Number 4014 was on display near the west Colton UP yard in California and was chosen for rebuild because it was in the best condition of all surveyed. That was in 2014. The UP steam shops have just finished the rebuild and these were pix of it’s first test runs. I don’t know how far into Colorado they took it on that test run. Then it took a trip to Ogden UT, double-headed with the other massive steamer UP #844 and a longer train.
The biggest steam locomotive ever built
lives again!
https://railpictures.net/photo/695996/
https://railpictures.net/photo/695995/
https://railpictures.net/photo/695982/
https://railpictures.net/photo/696072/
Embrace the sun
Story at-a-glance
Both ultraviolet A (UVA) and the near-infrared light spectrum increase NO. Sunlight also boosts cytochrome c oxidase, serotonin, brain-derived neurotrophic factor and other photoproducts, all of which are produced even in the wintertime when the sunlight is too weak to trigger vitamin D production
Your body is designed to benefit from sun exposure, and if you’re diabetic or have heart disease, it may well be one of the missing factors. Sunlight also lowers your risk for many other conditions, including Type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis and several types of cancer, including melanoma
For every death caused by diseases related to excessive sun exposure — such as melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer — there are 328 deaths caused by diseases of sunlight deprivation
For every skin cancer death in northern Europe, between 60 and 100 people die from stroke or heart disease related to hypertension
This can’t be good for NEM – have to assume they knew what they were getting into? Maybe??
MORE TROUBLE IN MEXICO: Second Largest Silver Mine Suspends Operations
The Gold Update by Mark Mead Baillie — 494th Edition — San Francisco — 04 May 2019
But is it a myth that Gold and the S&P are inversely correlated? It depends as to how one views it. Better than 13 years ago on 07 March 2006 Gold settled at 554.5 and the S&P at 1275.88. Today Gold at 1280.2 is 130.9% higher … as identically is the S&P at 2945.64 … so with all due respect, Bob Frost, even having taken the road less traveled by hasn’t made any difference, (S&P dividends aside, ‘natch):

Maya there’s another locomotive of the same type in a Denver Museum Big Boy 4005
that was crashed and the crew killed and they fixed it up enough to that it ran again. I think I heard big boy’s whistle again a couple of months ago, I live pretty close to the tracks
There’s Hope
A friend’s daughter went to the Univ. Colorado. Before sending her off to college he told her: “You’re going to meet a lot of crazy people with crazy ideas. Don’t believe them all. I taught you to think for yourself.” She has now graduated.

Mass population reduction?
Is 5G Worth The Risks?
From Jesse’s site
“Ordinarily, the financial risk in a market, and hence the risk to the economy at large, is limited because the assets traded are finite. There are only so many houses, mortgages, shares of stock, [bars of gold], bushels of corn or barrels of oil in which to invest.
But a synthetic instrument has no real assets. It is simply a bet on the performance of the assets it references. That means the number of synthetic instruments is limitless, and so is the risk they present to the economy. Synthetic structures referencing high-risk mortgages garnered hefty fees for Goldman Sachs and other investment banks. They assumed an ever-larger share of the financial markets, and contributed greatly to the severity of the crisis by magnifying the amount of risk in the system.
Increasingly, synthetics became bets made by people who had no interest in the referenced assets. Synthetics became the chips in a giant casino, one that created no economic growth even when it thrived, and then helped throttle the economy when the casino collapsed.”
Carl Levin, US Senator
Treefrog
I’m wondering if they are trying to hold off on the next Dow all time high till after the elections because after there will be a consolidation or a fall. Any fall will be blamed on Trump. I don’t know how they can drag it out that long less they have a decline prior.
richard640, @ 18:47
i like it! but i’ve seen:
…This insurance is now so artificially depressed that natural forces alone will cause the price of gold to rise rapidly…
…and this is overdue to unwind…
…will create a massive move to the upside…
…that’s when gold goes parabolic…
and similar raves by maguire, butler, et al for quite a while now. i’m sure it will all happen. what i’m not sure of is when? will i still be alive when it does?
i’m still alive today, so that’s good enough so far.

The pain on the downside is proportional to the excesses during the preceding boom
In my 30 years of studying Bubbles, a few things have become clear – I would argue indisputable: They always burst. During the Bubble, virtually everyone dismisses Bubble analysis, instead believing the boom is well-founded and sustainable. The pain on the downside is proportional to the excesses during the preceding boom. Tremendous damage is inflicted during the final “Terminal Phase” of excess.
The China Bubble has altered global inflation dynamics – it has fundamentally changed geopolitics and the world order. It has certainly played a prevailing role in a global backdrop promoting asset inflation at the expense of wages – in the process exacerbating inequality. And, increasingly, China’s ascendency on the world stage has spurred an extraordinary Arms Race in everything technology, industrial, military and geopolitical. In short, China has become the Global Poster Child for Unsound “Money” – with incredibly far-reaching consequences.
http://creditbubblebulletin.blogspot.com/2019/05/weekly-commentary-transitory-histrionics.html
Big Train

The ‘Big Boy’ lives! Union Pacific 4014 was
resurrected and rebuilt. This is the largest steam
locomotive ever built. Essentially two locomotive
driver sets on one long frame.
https://railpictures.net/photo/695983/
https://railpictures.net/photo/695982/
https://railpictures.net/photo/695987/
WE have pulled back 50 % on many leading Gold stocks
we should move higher from here ..I see a botttom in JNUG
Andrew Maguire – Bullion Banks Are About To Torch Speculative Gold & Silver Shorts
Broken Silver Market About To Surge Higher
May 3 (King World News) – Andrew Maguire: “As we observed last week in our KWN interview, the synthetic non-delivery gold & silver bubble is bursting. This past week’s Non-Farm Payroll action is just more synthetic noise. All of the FED’s tools are failing to halt a race to buy physical gold as insurance. And there is only one source of no counterparty risk insurance that can hedge against a meltdown and preserve capital, and that is physical gold and silver. This insurance is now so artificially depressed that natural forces alone will cause the price of gold to rise rapidly
Andrew Maguire continues: “The silver action this week far better illustrates just how broken the Comex price setting machine has become. The cash price disconnect with July futures is unprecedented and it not going unnoticed by insiders and Indian physical buyers this week. The July silver futures delivery contract morphed from a technical backwardation into a full-blown backwardation, evidencing spot silver actually trading at a premium to July silver. Meaning, the paper market now represents a broken pricing mechanism for physical silver.
Looking deeper at the wholesale market disconnect with the now expired May contract, (which is in the sole hands of the insiders), this was being picked up by insiders yesterday at a massive 7 cent discount to cash. In fact, this expired contract grew by some 300 lots yesterday at this actionable discount. Meanwhile, insiders are accruing physical silver for their own books while rinsing the remaining specs out of long stops below the fix each day, followed by targeting the prior days low.
Given the COT option expiry sweet-spot is still priced at $15.10, and predatory swap dealers are long against speculators into unprecedented backwardations, with the ratio trade at nosebleed extremes we can be sure that once Non-Farm Payroll dust settles next week and with China back off holiday, silver will regain the $15 level very quickly and gold will regain $1,300 with commercials and bullion banks on the long side of an extremely wrong-footed naked, undeliverable short speculator position. Meaning, they are about to crush the naked shorts.
The Gold & Silver Short Bubble
Given the ‘data dependency’ lever reinstalled by the FED at this week’s FOMC Meeting, we expected the action into Non-Farm Payrolls to be accompanied by additional FED spin to be volatile. But with the paper gold and silver markets in ‘short bubble’ territory into strong central bank and sovereign accumulation, the risk is now upon the massive accrued naked short position that has financed the risk bubble, and this is overdue to unwind.
This is the time to join the commercials and ride the next silver and gold wave higher, but if you do it, do it by taking physical delivery. That way you will not only be fighting back but will also be exacerbating already tight physical gold and silver markets.”
Also of importance…
This Is When Gold Will Go Parabolic
John Awde: “We’re going on 8 years, this September, that gold peaked. So when this thing turns, some of these stocks are so depressed that they are going to be up 50% in a matter of weeks. And I think in many cases it’s going to be more than that. When we finally see money flow into the sector and generalist money flow into the space, because the gold industry is so small, it will create a massive move to the upside.
I don’t like buying stocks that have been going up for ten years. And buying gold stocks represents a huge contrarian play that I think the timing is getting more and more interesting. As soon as the Fed announces the next rate cut and goes dovish, that’s when gold goes parabolic. Two months ago we saw a record US monthly deficit of $234 billion that was announced. That is bigger than the GDP of some countries. So I think we are going to wake up one morning and see the price of gold trading above $1,370.
Also, some of these mines that used to have 10 million ounces are now being depleted. And some of these assets that Pierre Lassonde talked about that used to have 20-30 million ounces are also being rapidly depleted. Meanwhile, Gold Standard Ventures owns 20% of the most well-endowed gold trend in the entire Western hemisphere. We now see our company developing critical mass with the two deposits we have, which are Dark Star and Pinion. And we are on the cusp of making more Dark Star-like discoveries after our successful 2018 drill program, so our stock represents a huge opportunity at these levels.” Gold Standard Ventures,symbol GSV in Canada & the US.
Brexit Party Soars in European Parliament Polls, 9 Points Ahead of Labour
Nigel Farage’s newly formed Brexit Party is in first place in European Parliament polls, pulling well ahead of Labour.
The Brexit Party Continues to Surge in the polls for the European elections as Change UK fall behind Lib Dems.
•Nigel Farage is continuing to smile after the latest polls for the EU elections continue to show the Brexit Party leading the way.
•Despite only being launched last month, the Brexit Party quickly stormed to the top of the polls – and the latest set of figures show their support has only increased.
•According to YouGov, Mr Farage’s party are now polling on 30% – an increase of 2% from the previous poll.
COT Report – The shit show continues
https://cftc.gov/dea/futures/deacmxlf.htm
as does the usual last hour selling of everything pm
What an effing joke
FYI
I just threw another log on. the fire…I think that’s enuff [400 calls]–next purchase only JNUG
FilledBuy to Open100CDE Sep 20 2019 5.0 CallLimit0.08—-15:27:41 05/03/19
Buygold
I followed BTG for years, unfortunately without pulling the trigger. They’ve been very successful.
No fun watching our gains melt away … day after day. I think that’s a swell idea “chopping roots” I have plenty of weeds that need extermination. 🙂
