Last week, I sent out this tweet:

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Coffee more expensive? As Jeremy Irons’ character in “Margin Call” says, “I’ll have to pay”.
(more…)Slim will be traveling, so there won’t be Saturday night’s normal “cycles” video, but he has kindly opened up this futures-oriented video from behind his paywall:
I’m having an absolutely terrific day. Ya see, I hate energy and love gold, and they’re both being agreeable today.
For oil, it got smashed yesterday, and then today it is threatening its uptrend. It hasn’t broken the uptrend as of the moment I am typing this, but, hey, hope springs eternal.