Loading ...Retail Sales were a miss. Right in line with the anti-Trump numbers that will continue to pour in.
Import/Export prices rose more than expected likely for the same reason.
The numbers may not be fake, they may just be the real numbers that would never be reported in the Biden administration. Of course, the MSM will blast these numbers all over the airwaves to blame Trump, but there’s no way things should change as dramatically as they are less than one month into his presidency. These bureaucrats are all corrupt. I’m convinced maybe 2% of them are decent, honest people and that’s about it. That includes the FBI and all the rest of them.
Fortunately, the government and MSM have zero credibility with the non-half-wit Americans that are paying even a little bit of attention.
BTW – Approval for what Musk is doing is 70%. Rant over.
Anyhoo, rates and the dollar continue to slide. The have attempted to waterfall silver once already, but it is regaining its footing somewhat. Gold down some, but not much. Shares still look weak to me. The shorts in the Crimex silver market must be petrified.
I think someone posted that there were 487 million paper oz. traded yesterday? I’m sure each and every paper oz. was backed with a physical oz. because that’s the rules. 🙂