Jay, For everybody, 3-4AM is the hour of feeling defeated, beaten, whipped, incompetent, weak, crushed, hopeless, stupid and desperate. At 8AM, the sun pours in and we surge out of the shower with new great energy feeling powerful, wise, energetic, hopeful, striding to victory etc. etc. It's all in the time of day and rest. The idiots in this Republican administration are just that and the debasing of the dollar and the concomitant rise of gold is as close to a sure thing as there ever is. Oil/gas trusts are necessarily more volatile than the oil price, on which they depend in a leveraged way. That goes with the territory and, as in the case of land, they aren't making any more fossil fuel. (They aren't even finding more than is being extracted.) Have a good morning. Chugs, Malcolm |