"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 •10 mins | 1,022.00 | -0.20 | -0.02% |
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WTI Crude •1 day | 68.18 | +0.51 | +0.75% |
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Gasoline •1 day | 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 • 1 day | 71.98 | +0.38 | +0.53% | |
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Natural Gas • 1 day | 2.902 | +0.149 | +5.41% | |
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Heating Oil • 1 day | 2.133 | -0.003 | -0.16% |
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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
In the cover article of the May 28 edition of Barron's (see The Great American Savings Myth) Gene Epstein, Barron's economics editor, argues that household saving is being underestimated. Epstein's…
CNBC Power Lunch Report
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The Changing Face of US Money
The US dollar changed from a currency backed up by a tangible asset to a fiat currency. That being a paper note backed up by governmental promises. By looking at…
Gold Thoughts
Investing in paper equities has apparently become far easier. Either a stock will be taken private by a speculative investment fund or it will be purchased…
Several Markets - ONE Bearish Outlook (with caveat)
In light of fundamental changes in the bond market where the yield curve (TNX-IRX ratio) has finally turned up after three years locked in a down trend, one might watch…
Are We Living in Bizarro World?
Superman fought many villains to protect "truth, justice, and the American way." One of the most memorable was Bizarro, a crude copy of Superman who came from a cube-shaped planet…
The Dollar: An Agonizing Reappraisal
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US Economy, Immigration and the Fallacy of Cheap Labour
The question of illegal immigration has finally come to the boil in the US. In doing so it has exposed as nonsense the arguments of those who say that legalising…
