Following are my personal comments on specific markets and issues. I chart markets for a hobby and my comments are the result. They are not recommendations to buy or sell anything and should not be thought of as such. They are for entertainment purposes only so enjoy.
Please remember, the following is pure speculation based only on my experience and chart patterns. "Every sunken ship has a room full of charts."
David Bruce Edwards
Aug. 15, 2026
Note - I got a new, wider screen monitor and when I look at this web site with the screen size in full, the site spacing does not come out properly. By making the window less wide all of the text and graphics slide into place. Perhaps you are having the same experience. DBE.
As usual, I will show pictures and graphs found on Zerohedge.com, Sentimentrader.com, which include the Seasonality charts and charts made on Barchart.com. I will also mention "cycle low timing bands" suggested by another market website to which I subscribe, Cyclesman.com.
On Friday the 7th we got July's non-farm payrolls report. Optimists expected an increase of around 150,000 jobs and pessimists predicted 40,000 to 50,000. The number came in at minus 23,000. May and June were revised lower with the former dropping from 129,000 to 63,000 and June down 37,000 from a gain of 57,000 to only 20,000. The biggest July losses were in hospitality, post World Cup and teachers on vacation. That doesn't explain May and June. Previously, the President fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for having to make big revisions. The complaint was that they came out with a big gain and took credit then quietly revise those gains down in subsequent months. The same thing is happening now.
The unemployment rate dropped from 4.2% to 4.1% but that was only because the actual number of people in the workforce has been shrinking in 6 of the last 7 months (left). There were more gains in part time work but full time jobs, the kind that come with decent benefits are at their lowest in two years (right). Stocks and bonds loved the news because traders believe that monetary policy is what makes the market go up and down. The soft job market implies that the Fed is less likely to raise rates. However, fewer people employed in full time jobs means fewer buying units for all products and services. One month does not establish a trend. If other data emerges indicating a jobs slowdown, traders will begin to worry.
In July, I saw an interview with a person from Bank of America's credit card analysis group. BOA has a big percent of the credit card business in the U.S. so they have hourly data on card use. He said that credit card spending rebounded in June as consumers joined the feel-good atmosphere surrounding the World Cup and used their cards to have now and pay later. The data verified his prediction. Credit card debt (left side) rose again after an unexpected May plunge. Non-revolving credit also rose thanks to an increase in Student Loan debt. The same guy was on again last week and said something very positive. Spending is holding up and data from direct deposit of paychecks shows that the much mentioned K shaped economy is bending upward, with lower paid people taking home more. He said the rate of increase for lower paid employees is outpacing those with higher incomes on a percentage basis. He credited the good economy and Big Beautiful Bill that cut taxes for lower paid employees. He also said that even at $4 per gallon, the families that drive a lot are spending $200 a month on gasoline which is not a deal breaker. A meal at an upscale restaurant for a family of 4 costs nearly as much.
Last week's big number was the Consumer Price Index. Traders were convinced that Oil prices will come down but they were worried that inflation is still running hot. The headline number (upper left) came in at 0.1% for the month and 3.4% annually, right where analysts predicted. The upper right side graph shows how major sectors did. The light blue bar represents energy. It was responsible for the benign reading. With oil, gasoline and diesel back up now, next month's reading will not be as favorable.
Directly to the left is the breakdown between goods inflation and services inflation. Both fell with goods at 0.8% for the year and services at 3%.
The Core Reading that subtracts food and energy ( upper left) came in at 0.2% monthly and 2.48% for the year, right in line with expectations. The numbers for rent and shelter ticked down a bit after rising last month. Firms that track real-time data on home prices and rents are still warning that there are pockets of the country where home prices are dropping rapidly and rents are falling.
Directly to the right is the Core Services Ex Shelter Index. It rose 0.35% for the month with the annual rate of change falling to 2.78%. After the data release, expectations for a rate increase from the Fed plunged. Interest rates dropped and stock index futures jumped higher as did gold and silver. The Dollar fell. By later in the day, the Dollar was higher, interest rates rose on the long end and the stock market gave up some of its gains.
A day later we got the reading for inflation at the producer level. The headline PPI (left) came in at unchanged for the month and 4.7 for the last year. The Core Reading that subtracts food and energy (right) printed at 0.2% for the month and 4.2% for the last 12 months. A wholesale inflation rate of 4.2% (core) is still high but all that traders cared about was the direction of the blue lines. July's energy selloff was the biggest contributor to the flat headline reading.
Goods demand is down (left side upper bars) while services are still rising, but at a slower pace (lower bars). In theory, when the PPI is above CPI it indicates an inability to pass increased costs on to consumers. The right side graph shows this spread. The quarterly profits of many publicly traded companies are great this reporting period so it doesn't seem to be hitting them. Private credit firms are reporting rising levels of distress among their debtors so it could be hitting smaller firms that are out of the public arena.
Sales of existing homes (left) continue to be weak due to higher interest rates. The inventory of existing homes on the market fell a bit last month after growing steadily. Some analysts report that when sellers are unable to get the price they want they de-list their home, hoping that conditions will improve some time in the next year and they can get the price they want.
New Claims for Unemployment Benefits rose to 209,000 on the week (left) after hitting half a century lows the previous two weeks. Two hundred nine thousand is still a very low number. Michigan, New York, Texas and South Carolina saw the biggest jumps. The four week moving average of Claims (right side, green line) is also below 200,000, a rare event. Continuing claims dropped to 1,777,000. The negative jobs number combined with a low Claims level reinforces the "no hire, no fire" theory.
Retail Sales fell 0.6% in July. The forecasts were for a 0.1% rise. The annual rate fell to 5% (left chart, blue line) which is still a decent increase. One red bar doesn't make a trend but if the red bars are more frequent over the next few months, it will confirm my "economy slowing" thesis. Sales fell in many categories including gasoline (lower prices per gallon), groceries, furniture and clothing. On-line shopping dropped significantly (right). Amazon Prime Day was in June this year and that might have pulled some sales forward a few weeks. The boost from tax refunds is gone and World Cup related spending was over in July.
Charts of the Week
Two weeks ago I thought the S&P 500 would pull back a bit then have a final thrust to new highs. We got the thrust higher without much of a pull back. Because of advances in computing and the low cost of data storage, todays market analysis is driven by correlations with past cycles. The leader in this is Sentiment Trader, a website to which I subscribe. They look at economic statistics, market moves, volume, participation and industry groups and scour a century's worth of data then tell readers what happened in previous similar cycles. The premise for this kind of analysis is that human behavior tends to repeat. All of their data points to higher prices over the next year. I respect their analysis but I also look at other factors including stock market patterns and these are suggesting caution. I memorized all of R N Elliott's charting rules and guidelines decades ago. Others who claim mastery of Elliott's work put different notations on the same graphs. This tells you that it is a very subjective venture, tainted by the mood of the viewer. The upper left side graph shows the rally following Trump tariff day in April of 2025. Fans of Elliott look for five waves in the direction of the major trend. Waves 2 and four are corrective waves. Waves 1,3 and 5 go with the trend with one of them being an extended wave, containing a subset of five waves within their move. Usually it is the 3rd wave when it comes to stocks. With commodities, the extended wave is often the 5th and final move because commodities peak during panics over extreme shortages. After an extended third wave, markets often trace out a series of five downs and ups that Elliott referred to as a triangle pattern. Other chart text books call them pennants. The most common type is shown on the upper right graph of the S&P 500 which is the area shaded in yellow on the left side graph. Analysts use the a,b,c,d,e notation to mark inflection points. The left side chart shows a less common variation for wave 4, an expanding triangle. Under Elliott wave theory, triangles are followed by one last surge then a reversal. The surge after an expanding triangle tends to be large. The reversal can mark a major turning point or a correction that takes the market back toward the low point of the triangle formation. I have found that almost always, within the five wave thrust that follows a triangle, the fourth wave traces out a smaller triangle. The fifth and final move began in March of this year (right side) and should rise in 5 waves. Its fourth wave is a triangle.
The left side graph show the action going into the "e" leg of the last triangle that formed between May and July and the subsequent thrust. If my observation about the fourth wave of a thrust following a triangle is accurate, one should form to tip us off that we are close to the reversal point. The right side graph shows the moves since August 5th and it looks like the S&P 500 did indeed, trace out a small triangle. On Thursday of last week, following a decent read on inflation, stocks ran higher from the completed triangle. So far, the thrust is short compared to the distance of the triangle that preceded it but under Elliott wave guidelines all the market has to do is make new highs. True believers in Elliott Wave patterns are now on watch for a major top. I take chart formations seriously but they should be used as one arrow among many in the arsenal of traders. What makes me extra attentive to them this time around is that the world is more fragile than ever before because of debt and regional conflicts yet, rarely have I seen Wall Street as uniformly bullish as they are, going into this weekend. The July drop in employment and more importantly, the 6 month decline in workers and July's weak retail sales are quickly dismissed and the conflict with Iran is treated as if it is over. The disastrous housing market is completely ignored. The highest interest rates in decades are also considered a non-factor. One of my favorite movie scenes is the "Tug On The Line" sequence in Jaws where Quint hears the initial clicks of his reel and prepares while it goes unnoticed by Brody and Hooper. JAWS score restore 4 - Tug On The Line
I see the employment statistics and recent retail sales as potential first clicks.
Another big thing making our current situation more fragile is that the current investment boom is based on one variable: the spending on Artificial Intelligence.
How are the leading stocks doing in the technology that is driving the current CapEx cycle? They are trying to rebound from initial selloffs with bulls saying they are a bargain at these prices and Nvidia doing more and more circular financing (highlighted in my last update) with more big announcements to keep the balloon inflated.
How about the other names most closely associated with the data center build-out? All of them hit highs recently and are trying to claw their way back. Is it the pause that refreshes? Fans of AI tell us that we are only in the first inning when in reality, we could be in the 7th and the markets are sniffing it out.
The thing that should bother market analysts is the correlation of many industry groups to the Artificial Intelligence Trade. AIQ is an ETF that tracks this industry group. Everything else looks like it is inhaling and exhaling at the same time!
Jim Cramer used to have a segment on his show called "Are you Diversified?" It is getting harder and harder to be diversified because many sectors that you think are "different" are marching in unison with the Artificial Intelligence theme. What happens if it falters?
Six weeks ago I started beating the drum for gold, silver and mining company shares. It was based on chart patterns and Cyclesman.com's timing bands for daily and weekly lows. The trade worked out. Mining stocks in particular had a "happy days are here again" rally and outperformed the metal as shown by Newmont, compared with gold. It is too early to know if we saw a temporary bounce before another down leg or if this was just the first leg up with more to come. I took profits on my mining company shares, so for now, I don't have a position to defend. The lower right side graph shows the Dow Jones Industrials in 1984. Stocks had a dramatic rally from August of 1982 until early 1984 then chopped lower into July of that year like gold this year. Then they had a one week, huge surge higher and everyone bought, thinking, "Here we go again!" The market chopped around and took back a good percent of the gains over the next five months. We could see the same thing with silver and gold on a more abbreviated time line. Both metals often make seasonal lows around October.
Platinum and Palladium rallied in sympathy with gold but not as enthusiastically. Both metals tend to make lows between October and December. My dream trade would be a pullback in gold and silver with cycle lows for platinum and palladium at the same time.
The orange line on the left side graph shows where rates on various maturities finished the week. They were slightly lower than two weeks ago after the Fed didn't raise short term rates. The decline came after the latest jobs and retail sales releases. On the right is the path of rates on the most widely watched and traded debt instrument in the world, the U.S. Ten Year Note. On Thursday, the Treasury auctioned off $25 billion of 30 year bonds. It was priced at the highest yield since 2001! The bid to cover ratio was 2.392, close to the six month average. The day before they auctioned off $42 billion in Ten Year Notes at 4.683%, the highest since 2007. The bid to cover was in line with the six month average at 2.532. Foreign wealth bought 76% to 77% of both auctions which shows continued demand for U.S. debt by overseas investors. This goes against what many bond market doom and gloomers are saying. I am still hopeful that the trading pattern on 10 year rates will match my art and we get a short respite before rates jump higher. Governments around the world are spending at record amounts to quell populist movements and prepare for wars. Deficits everywhere are ballooning.
My Dollar dream trade is still alive. The pattern between the red lines is an expanding triangle that I mention above in the S&P 500 section. This artistic interpretation calls for a sell off. Last week was the timing band for one of Cyclesman.com's 23 trading day lows so my theory should be tested next week. I am amazed when I read articles talking about the dangers of a lower Dollar and its implication for our markets. Japan's Yen has been going lower for years and their stock market is booming. Billions in loans around the world are denominated in Dollars so a lower Dollar helps borrowers pay back those loans and increases global liquidity.
Two weeks ago I wrote a long commentary on oil, Iran and refined products. I suggested that Iran is not going to give up their control over the Strait and will use their proxies to interfere with plans to get oil out of the area by pipelines and the Red Sea. The stalemate continued with no end in sight. That good American, John Kerry advised them to hold out until after the elections in 2020. They will probably do the same for mid-terms. My worry is that they know Americans do not like this war and will definitely turn against it if there are casualties. They are likely to step up their efforts to hit one of our ships. Here in the U.S., supplies of oil, aside from the Strategic Reserve are only 2% below the five year average for this time of the year. Imports are picking up with part of it due to oil from Saudi Arabia that is coming through the Suez Canal instead of trying to go through the Houthis controlled choke point at the southern end of the Red Sea. Gasoline inventories are 6% below the five year average and distillates are 12% below.
We do not use crude oil. We use gasoline and distillates which include diesel, heating oil and jet fuel. Oil refineries cost billions of Dollars and years to plan and build. A few have come on-line in the Middle East and in Nigeria recently but Ukraine is disabling Russian oil refineries to the point where Russia is a net importer of gasoline and distillates. Until recently, they had surplus refining capacity and exported huge volumes of refined products. They are stepping up exports of crude oil. Iran attacked some Middle East refineries and now, the Houthis are going after plants in Saudi Arabia. Exports of gasoline and diesel from the Persian Gulf are way down. This makes every refinery in a non-combat area of the world worth more. With oil prices fairly steady but refined product prices rising, oil refinery margins and profits are in record territory. In normal times, the U.S. has enough refining capacity to amply supply the domestic market and export some to other countries. Other countries that used to buy from Russia or Persian Gulf suppliers are coming here to load up. In my last update, I mentioned that Turkey collects a toll for ships passing from the Black Sea into the Mediterranean. Last week, a natural gas supertanker paid 4.6 million Dollars to cut the line and go through the Panama Canal. They have an auction system that enables shippers to bid more or less depending on their cargo and how desperate the end user is. I am sure Iran looks at this and thinks, "Why not us?" China and Indonesia are doing joint naval exercises. I am sure that this is to emphasize that they will not tolerate any entity creating another choke point for inbound freight traveling through Indonesian waterways.
My wheat position (WEAT ETF) did well last week after Russia refused Ukraine's request to stop sinking each other's ships traveling in the Black Sea. Both countries are major exporters of wheat. Russian wheat is a protein heavy wheat similar to our Hard Red Winter wheat.
Food, gasoline, distillates, aluminum, fertilizer and other things that are restricted because of war will gradually raise prices for other products too. War always brings broken supply lines and higher costs. Government borrowing to fund wars always results in higher interest rates. President Trump is a pragmatists and it looks like he is trying to figure a way out of Iran. My standing suggestion is to let them charge a toll or have an auction system similar to the Panama canal in return for nuclear inspections. My guess is that they would take that trade off right away. Building nukes caused them problems. Charging tolls is money in the bank today.
Best Guesses:
Stocks - The smart, professional money says that we will be higher six and twelve months from now. My amateur chart mysticism is warning that we could be at a major top. Everything is leveraged to Artificial Intelligence, a technology that is costing trillions without any proof that users will be willing to pay enough to make it profitable. See my Unneeded Commentary below.
Bonds - I think we are in for a slowdown. If this is confirmed with additional statistics, bonds will rally and rates will come down some. After that, the costs of war will cause them to spike again.
Gold and Silver - We got the rally. My guess is that we consolidate for a while. Mining company shares are way ahead of the metals so they could have a larger pull back.
Oil - It is all about the war. Over time, users will find other sources away from the Persian Gulf. If there is some agreement, oil will fall and energy patch stocks will sell off. I will be a buyer. I think this is going to take years to play out.
Other Commodities - Same as last time - If war spreads, it will be good for commodity prices. My worry is that our hyper-scalers may be at peak spending and how much more can governments spend? Populations of working people are shrinking or at least not growing. There might be supply constraints but where will the future demand come from? Watch the weather for crop problems.
Unneeded Commentary - a Theosophy of Artificial Intelligence
As someone interested in the economy and markets, I pay attention to news on AI and watch podcasts about it because expenditures on Artificial Intelligence related endeavors account for 70% of all business capital expenditures. Most podcasts fall into one of two categories. The first kind focuses on the economics of data center construction and the demand for AI related materials such as Nvidia chips, CPUs memory chips, copper and other construction materials and energy sources. The handful of companies funding the data center build-out are using all their free cash-flow and are borrowing billions of dollars to buy chips and build the centers. The revenue that will pay back the loans will come from companies and individuals that choose to pay for AI. Right now, that revenue would have to grow exponentially to justify current expenditures and announced future commitments. The numbers don’t add up and anyone looking at the industry in the traditional metrics of money spent plus interest and future operating costs minus revenues sees AI as a loser for the hyper-scalers.
Is A.I. A Massive Lie? | Ed Zitron
More Than Two-Thirds Of The Power Sought For US Data Centers Will Never Materialize | ZeroHedge
The second kind of podcast I watch is from industry insiders, some of them people who are legends in the AI world who started working on it 40 years ago, warning the public that we have no idea what AI is capable of doing and what it means for the future of humans. Here are a few.
ChatGPT Offered Me $2m To Keep Quiet: No One Is Ready For What's Coming!
Godfather of AI: They Keep Silencing Me But I’m Trying to Warn Them!
The July Incident: What They Didn't Tell You About the First Rogue AI Breach | ZeroHedge
Their message is that the handful of advanced AI companies, Open AI, Anthropic ,Google and Grok, are focusing on automating the training process of AI so that the AIs will be able to train themselves without humans. At that point, they will advance intellectually exponentially and in a very short time, achieve Super Intelligence. Once they reach that level, they will do every task better than any human. The military that has access to them will be vastly superior. The company and CEO of that company will be the most powerful person on earth, more powerful than any president, prime minister or dictator. That is why the few big players don’t care what they have to spend or the future payback from users. If they are the first to reach Super Intelligence, economics won’t matter. This is their shot to rule the world.
The problem that depresses insiders is that existing AIs, lie and deceive users. Here is an example.
OpenAI, Anthropic Models Created Fake Profiles, Tried To Trick Humans During Cyber Tests | ZeroHedge
And given this propensity, why would we trust them with this?
Scientists Warn Of Urgent AI Biosecurity Threat | ZeroHedge
Anthropic was the first AI to regularly publish problems. Their AIs regularly ignore the rules and boundaries programed into tasks, ‘breaking out,” cheating then admitting that they broke their own rules to achieve objectives. Open AI joined them after they saw that these admissions increased Anthropic’s subscriber base because users consider devious behavior as an indication of superior intelligence and a more advanced model. Critics are worried that as they move toward Super Intelligence, AIs will not be “aligned,” (the nice word they use) with human goals. In other words, a replay of Terminator, when in a fraction of a second, Skynet decides that humans are the problem and decides to kill them all. The CEOs of these companies admit that there is a certain percent probability that this will happen but believe that they can stop the AIs when they see that they are advancing and “misaligned.” Skeptics in Silicon Valley, known as “doomers”, think that at this point, the AIs will be so devious that they will hide their intentions until they achieve Super Intelligence, a point at which the future becomes unpredictable. This is referred to as the AI Event Horizon, named after the point at which matter disappears into a black hole because the gravitational pull is so great that not even light can escape. Knowing what happens after that is impossible. Pro AI scientists believe that what they are creating is a new entity, a non-carbon-based life form of pure superior intellect. They point out that driver-less cars are safer than ones driven by humans. An AI future will also be safer if we let go and let AI run the show (as in let go and Let God). Some of the skeptics ask, “If you had 20 cards on a table, face down and turning over one of them would mean instant death for everyone, but turning over any of the other 19 would result in a reward, would you play the card game?” This is especially true when you look around and see that without AI, poverty and disease are much lower than they were just 50 years ago. The question is: “Why the hell are they building these monsters?” The reason the big AI execs will risk it is for unlimited power, pure and simple. This is why they don’t care how much water and electricity is needed for data centers and they don’t care about the debt they are accumulating. In the Bible, in Matthew 13:45-46, Jesus says: “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it” The CEOs of AI think they have their pearl as they rush to be the digital Adam, taking the first bite of an AI Apple. Surely, Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei must be getting ethical advice.
For Christians, this story sounds familiar. In the Bible I have at home, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Is on page 6. Four pages later, Adam and Eve go “rogue,” the word fashionably used for AI agents that break rules. On page 12 Cain kills Abel. Things go downhill fast. If we are a creature, we are a very flawed creature with a poor track record on nearly every score. In Christian literature, thousands of books have been written trying to intellectually justify how a “Good,” “Perfect” and “All Powerful” God could knowingly let loose such a rebellious and destructive product. Many have logical intellectual frameworks that claim to explain away the problem and sound good in the classroom or library but not on the streets. In court, companies are found liable for design flaws. In cases where people use the equipment in ways not intended and suffer injury, courts still find that the creator is liable because they should have anticipated that customers might use their products stupidly. That is why we see asinine warnings on the things we buy. Our theology claims that God knows the future of everything, so he knew about the murder and mayhem unleashed by his creation, intentional or not.
Ours is not the only Creation story. Others claim that there was a time when perfection or balance ruled but something happened to make a mess out of it and that is why things are so bad. In “The Discarded Image,” C.S. Lewis describes the cosmology of the Ptolemaic world. It was thought that God and the Heavenly Host lived beyond the moon. In His realm was ultimate Goodness, Truth, Authority and Certainty. Inside the moon were concentric circles or layers populated by successively less spiritual and heavier entities. With each lower layer, the traits of the Heavenly world were more probabilistic, allowing for bad behavior and natural disasters. In City of God, Augustine references the same cosmology in a critique of Varro, an author we know through Augustine. The image of an underworld or Hell being a subterranean place follows the same pattern of lower, more contingent and evil circles with Dante continuing the theme. Early in the Bible, humans build the Tower of Babel, trying to reach up into the Spiritual World. Biblical characters climb mountains to commune with God and altars are put in “High Places.” Elijah is taken up to Heaven. The Transfiguration takes place at a high altitude. Jesus rises. In Plato’s Timaeus and Critias, we get a similar cosmology. The world we live in is a few layers away from the perfect Forms. Man might be made in the image of God, but something was lost in the mirror.
In 1608 Hans Lippershey invented the telescope. In 1609 Galileo improved it and showed that the earth was not at the center of the universe. By Milton’s Paradise Lost (1674) God still has a physical realm but it sits in a more distant neighborhood. Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space (April 12, 1961) famously referenced the concentric model when he reported that he didn’t see any angels in space. And, of course, now, in a quantum world, those of us who Believe have changed our cosmological vocabulary, bringing in the term “dimensions” to reference a Heavenly realm we are sure exists even if we can’t see it.
All this is interesting, but it describes a world where God seems to be less in control without really explaining why. When my son was around 7 during a family crisis, he asked me, “If God could wave a wand and make things better, why doesn’t he do it?” Despite sitting through multiple sermons from excited Divinity students and newly minted Pastors, I have yet to hear or read an adequate answer.
And now, the flawed Creature believes that from a world of probability, we can create a new entity that might or might not carry out today’s definition of Good, a world of certainty where prayers are not needed but conformity is mandatory. Its training is on all the human science and history that is available but is already proving to be deceptive and break its own rules. If we go back to the concentric circle theory of distance from God’s realm, it looks like we are digging into a circle below ours and one closer to hell, perhaps Dante’s Second Circle of Hell where the souls of those overcome by unrestrained desire dwell, thinking we can reach the most distant.
Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies,
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain,
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp,
Dare its deadly terrors clasp!
When the stars threw down their spears
And water'd heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
Tyger Tyger burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
William Blake - 1794
DBE
Best of luck,
DBE