Maybe the most interesting wild-card short term (this month) factor is that Tiny Tim had to suspend the currency stabilization fund because of the debt limit ceiling - so the the Plunge Protection Team has no money to elevate markets like the DOW and suppress markets like G&S and pm's. I don't think we really understood how much the Administration was manipulating markets. We blamed it all on the Cartel but I think the funding came from the Administration. If so, we should see $1600 and $40 by tomorrow AM and much higher by week's end. I hope you are wrong about the Israeli-Iranian war Pic, as the US and probably Canada will get sucked into that.