Yesterday’s big move in the Dow throws us back to our customary position – uncertainty, bordering on da-daism. The Dow rose 169 points yesterday. Gold shot up $29 to $1119.

“I think, therefore I am,” said Rene Descartes. How did he know he thought? And what if he thought he wasn’t? Would he not be? He should have tried following the stock market! It would have improved his philosophy. “I think I think,” he would have emended his famous quotation. “But maybe I don’t…”