"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •98 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 960.60 | +3.30 | +0.34% |
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WTI Crude •10 mins | 73.39 | +0.15 | +0.20% |
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Gasoline •15 mins | 2.066 | -0.001 | -0.02% |
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Ethanol •98 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •98 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 98 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 98 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 15 mins | 76.58 | -0.60 | -0.78% | |
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Natural Gas • 10 mins | 2.643 | -0.017 | -0.64% | |
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Heating Oil • 10 mins | 2.282 | +0.005 | +0.22% |
Article Archive | Page 3819
The Bloody Knife Used to Gut Bear Stearns???
In the vein of any good mystery (or conspiracy theory), here are some charts and stats to go with the Bear Stearns' conspiracy post that I made a few…
Credit Contraction, Economic Bust, and Deflation
Below is an extract from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 27th April, 2008. Credit Contraction and Deflation Members of the deflation camp assert that the large-scale…
Commodity Market Summary
April 28, 2008 Grains Soybeans fell over 3-percent today, with July contract settling 39 1/2 cents lower at $12.97 1/2 per bushel. Weather concerns continue to pull the strings in…
Two Essays on the Continuing Financial Crisis
This week in Outside the Box we look at two brief essays which give us different perspective on the Continuing Crisis. The first is by Mohamed…
Borrowed Consumption: Opium of the Masses
My last commentary touched off a mini-debate between myself and Michael Pento, a proponent of Austrian Economics who gallantly defends his principles against the Keynesian economists and supply-side monetarists when…
The Mysterious Case of the Commodity Conundrum, Securitization of Commodities, and Systemic Concerns (Part 3)
"The theories which I have expressed there, and which appear to you to be so chimerical, are really extremely practical -- so practical that I depend upon them for my…
The Mysterious Case of the Commodity Conundrum, Securitization of Commodities, and Systemic Concerns (Part 3)
"The theories which I have expressed there, and which appear to you to be so chimerical, are really extremely practical -- so practical that I depend upon them for my…
China, Gold and The Coming Flood of Wealth
I have just returned from a 10-day trip to Southern China and Hong Kong. While I was there, I explored the Chinese attitude toward gold. If their demand for gold…
The High Road To Hell
The following is an excerpt from commentary that originally appeared at Treasure Chests for the benefit of subscribers on Tuesday, April 8th, 2008. If that's where we are…
Gotterdammerung
Wagner's opera Gotterdämmerung is about the twighlight of pagan gods. The most powerful of the latter-day pagan gods that has been guiding the destinies of humanity for the past two-score…
