Although there are still analysts hand wringing over what will surely be the Fed's decision to stand pat next week on the maintaining of QE3, it is becoming quite clear that the American economy is slowing a bit, although not dangerously. Of course, for many people, the recession that began in 2008 never stopped at all.

Now that the euphoria, controlled as it was for the Democrats, is over and the Republicans still have a splitting headache from being hung over from their "lost weekend" that lasted for almost three weeks, the sober business of figuring out how to realistically cut budgets, deficits and debt is upon Washington once more.

And never the twain shall meet...

         - Rudyard Kipling

Today gold acted the way gold is supposed to act. As the end of this ridiculous Washington drama comes closer, when there was a deal (boding certainty) gold fell and when the extremist wing of the House came forward yet again with some new, unacceptable tweaks, gold rose (uncertainty).