"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •218 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 1,022.50 | -3.30 | -0.32% |
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WTI Crude •10 mins | 70.71 | -0.32 | -0.45% |
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Gasoline •10 mins | 2.068 | +0.017 | +0.83% |
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Ethanol •218 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •218 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 218 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 218 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 10 mins | 74.37 | -0.24 | -0.32% | |
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Natural Gas • 10 mins | 3.341 | -0.019 | -0.57% | |
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Heating Oil • 10 mins | 2.383 | -0.001 | -0.03% |
Article Archive | Page 3497
Great Depressions Are So Methodical
Address to the Spring Dinner Meeting of the Committee for Monetary Research and Education (CMRE) www.cmre.org One of the features of a great boom is the excitement…
The End Game Draws Nigh -The Future Evolution of the Debt-to-GDP Ratio
Nearly everyone I talk with has the sense that we are at some critical point in our economic and national paths, not just in the US…
Why We are Gold Bulls
Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 17th May 2009. The actions of the US Fed and Treasury between September and December of…
Investing in Cold Fusion and Palladium
Cold Fusion, that pariah of established science, made a comeback in March as the US Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Center went public with results which they believed confirmed that…
Agri-Food Thoughts
The road to deflation was a short one. It ran smack into reality. That reality is that the rest of the world does exist, and that North America is not…
Tax Revenues Tanking
While everyone else has been focused on the banks' stress tests and how much government is spending to bail out troubled "too big to fails," a disturbing trend on the…
Audit the Fed, Then End It!
I have been very pleased with the progress of my legislation, HR 1207, which calls for a complete audit of the Federal Reserve and removes many significant barriers towards transparency…
Appearances Can Be Deceiving
The following is an excerpt from commentary that originally appeared at Treasure Chests for the benefit of subscribers on Tuesday, May 5th, 2009. The old adage 'appearances can…
What's THAT Sucking Sound? It's the Global Margin Call, Spawning the "Age of Frugality"!
A typical margin call is a brokerage firm contacting their client, to ask them to either sell existing securities (assets) within the account or to deposit more funds (cash), to…
Obama's Road to Economic Ruin and Higher Taxes
The inimitable Adam Smith once quipped that "there is a great deal of ruination in a country". But then Mr Smith had never met President Obama whose idea of financial…
