Yesterday I posed the idea that to stop, or at least delay the Japanese from ending YCC and raising rates, an earthquake was created, as a warning. What I didn’t know at the time was that Saudi Arabia was having, over the last two days of December, monstorous hail storms over much of their country. I had recently suggested OPEC might be getting ready to drop the dollar for buying their crude, requiring gold instead. Another warning, who knows, but how many coincidences does it take before they are no longer coincidences? This could very well be the US sending messages not to mess with dollar hegemony.