AFTER THE SHOW  contains a portion  from the Weekend Review (3.14.14)

We are all aware by now of the fact that the shrill dispute in the Ukraine/Crimea is driving gold prices higher. Today silver grabbed some of the same luster, after having had a rugged handful of sessions on a drop in industrial demand from China.

Are the Russians begging for a war with the E.U., U.S. and other industrialized societies? The massing of troops on the Ukrainian border, reported only mid-afternoon by  The New York Times seems to indicate the answer is "yes."