"When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe." … Frederic Bastiat


Evil talks about tolerance only when it’s weak. When it gains the upper hand, its vanity always requires the destruction of the good and the innocent, because the example of good and innocent lives is an ongoing witness against it. So it always has been. So it always will be. And America has no special immunity to becoming an enemy of its own founding beliefs about human freedom, human dignity, the limited power of the state, and the sovereignty of God. – Archbishop Chaput

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Friday, July 18, 2014

Gold Continuing to Closely Track the TIPS spread

Here is an updated chart. Note how the pair is moving almost exactly in unison. As inflation expectations subside, gold prices move lower. As they increase, gold prices move higher.



Incidentally, for those tracking the Euro currency, it bounced off of support near that stubborn 1.35 level once again. I find that most remarkable given the more hawkish tone of the Fed of late in regards to interest rates and the continued lackluster performance of the overall Eurozone economy.