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There will be a stock option expiration for December on Friday.

President Trump has announced that he will be making an announcement to the nation this evening at 9 PM EST.

Speculation on what this will be about is all over the board, but much of it centers on the Administration's provocative confrontation with Venezuela.

It's difficult to forecast what will happen because we are dealing with a group of people who live in an alternative reality of lies and purposeful imaginings designed to manipulate public opinion, and the outsized looting of the nation by wealthy, willful sociopaths.  

Whatever happens, let us not overlook or excuse the terrible responsibility that is being laid upon those who watch all this unfolding and ask, 'What is truth?', and then cynically turn away from it.  

May they never rest. 

Gold and silver are moving higher in a flight to safety, with silver showing a particularly powerful bullishness driven, it seems, by a short squeeze on physical supply.  

All the things we have been saying about this ongoing fraudulent manipulation of silver and gold seem to be harder to dismiss now. Not that the usual suspects will not try. Fraud discovered has no resort but audacity.

VIX ticked higher.

The Dollar is hanging on the 98 handle, helped by the peculiarly outdated composition of the DXY index. 

Have a pleasant evening.
 

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