"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •87 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 1,022.00 | -0.20 | -0.02% |
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WTI Crude •22 hours | 68.18 | +0.51 | +0.75% |
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Gasoline •23 hours | 1.953 | -0.008 | -0.42% |
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Ethanol •87 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •87 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 87 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 87 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 21 hours | 71.98 | +0.38 | +0.53% | |
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Natural Gas • 22 hours | 2.902 | +0.149 | +5.41% | |
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Heating Oil • 22 hours | 2.133 | -0.003 | -0.16% |
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The Risk and Reward Ratio on The Precious Metals Market
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Unavailability of Spending Crisis
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Last week, global attention was focused on Toronto as the G-20 gathered to confront the growing financial and economic worries darkening the global economic horizon. In an irony worthy of…
Debt and Demobilization
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Early-Stage Gold Juniors
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Stocks May Surprise By Year-End
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Punctuating the Severity of Excess Money Creation
I know, alas, that there is nothing that can be done to prevent unimaginable suffering and the collapse of the economy, now…
Will Stock Investors Go on a Buyers' Strike?
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