"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •346 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 1,211.90 | -63.20 | -4.96% |
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WTI Crude •1 day | 72.98 | +4.94 | +7.26% |
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Gasoline •1 day | 2.228 | +0.085 | +3.95% |
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Ethanol •346 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •346 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 346 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 346 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 1 day | 74.23 | +4.87 | +7.02% | |
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Natural Gas • 1 day | 3.581 | +0.089 | +2.55% | |
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Heating Oil • 1 day | 2.359 | +0.170 | +7.77% |
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Lower Chinese PMI: Canary in the Coalmine?
China's PMI numbers for February were released yesterday and received surprisingly little media attention. Although I am usually not keen to slice and dice single-month statistics too intensely, the latest…
United States Trade Policy: The New Reality
The history of United States trade policy formulation and implementation, until 2009, was marked by a number of characteristics that were common to every presidential administration and Congress, more or…
An Attempt to Think Through the Greek Crisis
Today I am sitting listening to Ralph Merkle lecture on nanotechnology, part of a 9-day-long series of lectures on how accelerating change in technologies…
TNC Securities: The Devil Sovereign Bond Take The Hindmost
"The current economic crisis should not be seen only as a negative force for the largest TNCs, both financial and non-financial.…
Why the US Economy Could Suffer Another Contraction
Last December I pointed out that AMS (Austrian definition of the money supply*) had peaked in June 2009, even as the monetary base accelerated, and that this must mean that…
"Peak Gold", Central Banker Confusion
Below are excerpts from recent commentaries posted at www.speculative-investor.com. The irrelevance of "Peak Gold" It is said that the cure for high commodity prices is...high commodity prices, the…
Agri-Food Thoughts
We continue to periodically hear, or read, the word commodities flow from the mouths, or the keyboards, of those not very well informed. By now, China was to be in…
Dont Bet on a Recovery
It is astounding how many economists, government officials, and Wall Street strategists construe the current economic conditions as evidence of a bona fide recovery. It is a testament to the…
Just One False Move
The following is commentary that originally appeared at Treasure Chests for the benefit of subscribers on Tuesday, February 16th, 2010. Just one false move on the part of…
Bizarre Spending Habits
Last week I had the opportunity to bring up spending and transparency in two important hearings. On Wednesday I questioned Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on some highly questionable uses…
