You will find that before the Bull Market for Precious Metals is over, the world will be engulfed by an avalanche of information and self-promotional marketing from a group I refer to as the Silver Crazies. We have just begun.

Here is Jason Hommel's work, which is a link sent to me by “peiday”.

I don’t know Jason Hommel, but he seems like a reasonable fellow who has assembled lots of lists and links to info on silver.

What I found interesting is that Jason is doing something I have contemplated, which is to charge for access to his personal trading portfolio. In my case, I am caught somewhere between (i) not getting the software done to my satisfaction, (ii) believing that some people might be misdirected to trade what is desirable to me but may be inappropriate to them, and (iii) questioning whether I want to continue to be obligated to subs

Spot Gold is down about $5.40 (-1.0 pct) as at 6:00am ET this morning. As the Gold price is pushed down, the $USD index has moved up over the past five days as shown in these charts.

I believe that precious metals including Gold are to be favored. Nothing new there.

Later this year, I believe there will be a Dollar Crisis caused by the inability of the U.S. Treasury to finance the debts of government. Nothing new there either.

USD:Euro chart

Spot GOLD chart

Microsoft (NDQ: MSFT), for all we dislike about the products, is the 800-pound gorilla for the computer hardware, software and services industry. That’s because Microsoft technology is ubitquitous. We all use it.

So when the Company reports a major delay in releasing their newest software to the marketplace, you can almost hear the groans from the worldwide industry.

This Vista issue is not a small deal. There will be many other companies hurt, and today Nasdaq will be quite soft as a result.

As you know, the chips have dipped. Here are some other computer tech groups worth watching this week.

Computer Hardware -USA

Sentiment shift for bond traders?, Wed., Mar. 22, 2006, 7:37 AM
at 2006-03-22 12:07:10

Yesterday, the yields on U.S. Treasury paper popped across the board, probably caused by bond traders who are starting to sense reluctance by foreign investors to buy U.S. debts at current rates.

Higher yields/rates cause concern for quantitatively-oriented equity traders who are focused on Discounted Cash Flow models. Ergo, the equity market had quite a slide yesterday afternoon.

*** As "C.Note" informs us, "The yield on the 4-wk TB bought yesterday was 4.684%", which is considerably higher than shown here. The data in the table above is from Yahoo Finance, redistributed from ValuBond.com. I think there was quite a shift in the data when Yahoo switched recently from BankRate.com, as I recall. You will of course find different data from different vendors, e.g., Bloomberg. So what I recommend is that if you are using this data for trend &