Then again if they didn't do that we would have corrected back 5~6 years ago and things would be different.  I bet we would have wasted less enegy though.  Speaking of the dollar decline it broke the $84 price floor that everyone keeps talking about.

I pulled this from itulip.com

Soon credit spreads will widen and liquidity we shrink even more.  If you have not noticed, the Yen carry-trade died and global money supply has fallen below nominal GDP.  If you think that extremely low default rates will support tight spreads, recall that our nation's all-time low default rate was during the second quarter of 1997, which was on the eve of our worst default cycle since the 1930s. High default rates are symptoms of economic malaise, not its cause. During these periods, quality credits and high quality stocks bests low quality securities, which reverses the trends seen since December 2002.  Stocks smell The Devil.

I don't know how to verify the Yen carry trade ending, but I'll take Eric Janszen's word for it.  Bush has touted that the highest % of home owners ship has been attained under his leadership.  Yet the devil in the details says that it's only because all of those who SHOULDN'T have gotten a house, got one with a big fat AMT loan.  People really have little financial sense, so the bankers bilked them.  Should we expect different?  Those houses are being repo'd and will be available for discount soon at a subdivison near you.  

Point: We have to be near the edge of the cliff, or at least the mole hill we've built.

Markets are irrational.  Gold is the worst.  According to many models is follows a random walk and you can not predict the price necessarily like a security with pro forma cash flows.  So instead many times you have to hold on to your fundamentals and wait to be proven right.  That can be a problem though as you may be right about the end point, but wrong about when.  Many times it's about playing the people.  In the case of the dollar, I think it's a high stakes game of chicken as many around the world are starting to get nervous about the worlds largest economy.

http://www.nymex.com/press_releas.aspx?id=pr20060602a

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. today announced that the COMEX Division has eliminated price fluctuation limits for all COMEX contracts beginning with the NYMEX ACCESS® session on Sunday, June 4 for trade date June 5.

This change was made in order to better facilitate the core functions of price discovery and hedging provided by COMEX products.

This is one of those announcements, like the M3 reporting announcment, that only makes sense if something very, very funny is going on.  If I had a little more tin foil in my hat, I would say that this means that the PTB are going to crash the market for PMs in order to eliminate their shorts, then scoop up all remaining gold and silver in storage.  Eliminating the price limits would allow this to happen almost instantly and prevent the general public from participating.  I am sure, however, that thinking is insane and they are really making the change "in order to better facilitate the core functions of price discovery and hedging", whatever the hell that is supposed to mean.

Keep an eye on gold and silver Sunday at 7 when the ACCESS trading starts.  It might be interesting.