Hey, "it's the economy stupid".
Just doing my part for America.
To be honest, I think the central banks fiddled a little with the price of gold and silver, especially when they gave it a whack in mid May at a critical juncture.
But after all, that's their job. Otherwise, I think the rally in stocks has been genuine. And the drop in oil prices is genuine, too, although it may have been kicked off when Goldman Sachs adjusted their energy index fund on the precise day when energy prices began to fall, by decreasing the unleaded gasoline component by a large amount.
Again, that's their job, and it wouldn't have stuck if energy prices didn't want to come down from their speculatively high levels.
So you're saying that Rove is responsible for the DOW going over 12,000? Not surprising, I only wish I had known he was planning for this earlier.
Though Clinton likes to take the credit, you can watch the Dow start to zoom in January 1995 when the GOP Congress took office.