Gold •14 mins | 2,413.80 | +15.80 | +0.66% | |
Platinum •14 mins | 943.80 | -10.70 | -1.12% | |
WTI Crude •5 hours | 83.14 | +0.41 | +0.50% | |
Gasoline •5 hours | 2.710 | -0.003 | -0.13% | |
Ethanol •4 hours | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% | |
Silver •14 mins | 28.84 | +0.46 | +1.63% |
Silver • 14 mins | 28.84 | +0.46 | +1.63% | ||
Copper • 14 mins | 4.498 | +0.061 | +1.37% | ||
Brent Crude • 4 hours | 87.29 | +0.18 | +0.21% | ||
Natural Gas • 5 hours | 1.752 | -0.005 | -0.28% | ||
Heating Oil • 5 hours | 2.541 | +0.007 | +0.29% |
Contributor since: 07 Jan 2014
Robert Bonomo is a blogger, novelist and esotericist. He has lived and worked in Madrid, San Francisco, Buenos Aires, Kamchatka, Miami, Valencia, Cartagena, New York and a few other not so interesting places. He has toiled as a writer, blogger, car salesman, land surveyor, media buyer, spice salesman, transportation salesman, teacher, advertising salesman, marketing manager and consultant (of course he had to be a consultant too). He has done some other things but asked that we not mention them here.
As gold broke below the psychologically important level of $1,200 an ounce late in December of 2014, the mainstream financial media burst with headlines like…