The centipede has a hundred feet, give or take. When shoes start dropping, well, everything goes crazy in centipede land.

Remember 1992? Clinton elected; the senior Bush was ending his term of office. The Millennial Generation newborns (now in their 20s and 30s) were in the midst of their own particular baby boom. Yugoslavia began to break up. Russia and the U.S.

Summer is a time of doldrums, as we've noted since the inception of The Gold Forecast. One never knows when traders are going to lie back against the haystack with a blade of straw in their teeth and snooze away a day.