"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •136 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 945.10 | +1.10 | +0.12% |
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WTI Crude •1 day | 67.02 | -1.68 | -2.45% |
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Gasoline •1 day | 1.949 | -0.032 | -1.63% |
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Ethanol •136 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •136 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 136 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 136 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 1 day | 71.04 | -1.52 | -2.09% | |
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Natural Gas • 1 day | 2.823 | +0.038 | +1.36% | |
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Heating Oil • 1 day | 2.171 | -0.041 | -1.87% |
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Will China's "Stamping" Out of Stock Speculation Curb Overall Speculation?
Effective today, the Chinese Ministry of Finance increased its so-called stamp tax on stock market transactions from 0.1% to 0.3% in an effort to curb speculation in the Chinese stock…
Gene Epstein's Great American Savings (sic) Myth
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The Changing Face of US Money
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US Economy, Immigration and the Fallacy of Cheap Labour
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