"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •78 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 989.30 | +14.50 | +1.49% |
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WTI Crude •15 mins | 71.95 | +1.04 | +1.47% |
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Gasoline •15 mins | 2.060 | +0.049 | +2.45% |
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Ethanol •78 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •78 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 78 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 78 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 10 mins | 74.88 | +1.23 | +1.67% | |
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Natural Gas • 15 mins | 2.348 | +0.064 | +2.80% | |
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Heating Oil • 15 mins | 2.172 | +0.025 | +1.14% |
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Ghost in the Machine
Reflexive Interventionism, senseless intrusion in wars that are not America’s concern has been the hallmark of post Breton Woods Foreign policy. They may have been presented as well intentioned and…
Credible Inflation Data (for a change)
It is strongly in the interest of governments that inflation figures stay low, even if inflation itself is not low. An hour or so researching newspaper stories on "Google" should…
UK: Rates Are Headed Upward, But Not Next Month
The combination of Tuesday's CPI numbers and today's retail sales report has the markets all a-flutter in anticipation of a rate hike from the Bank of England (BoE) before this…
The FOMC Is Forecasting Below Potential Economic Growth
This is a postscript to Fed Chairman Bernanke's testimony yesterday to the Senate Committee on Banking. Bernanke stated that the FOMC's "central-tendency" forecast for 2006 real GDP Q4/Q4 was in…
Bernanke's Transient Hopes
When Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairman Ben Bernanke was President Bush's Chief Economic Advisor, he described high oil prices as transitory. Transient they were: they headed higher, not lower. In his…
Rising Global Interest Rates Point to Good Times for Gold
Interest rates around the globe are going up because inflation and default risk are going up. Lenders want to be compensated for the chance they might not be repaid. When…
What, Me Worry?
The following is an excerpt from our 19 July Weekly Outlook #28/29 The overwhelming feeling right now, it seems, is one of complacency - everywhere. Recessionary forces at work…
The Dow's Cold Right Shoulder
Showing someone the "cold shoulder" has been a common expression in the English language since 1816. US stock investors are soon going to find out the real meaning of that…
Bernankes More Difficult Dilemma Is Not the One He Stated Today
The more difficult dilemma facing Fed Chairman Bernanke is not the one he just posed in his July 19 Humphrey-Hawkins appearance today, the same one the financial markets continue to…
CNBC to Become Pro-Gold?
During the 1990s, CNBC's daytime ratings surpassed those of CNN. Go to any health club in 1999, and those running on the treadmill were glued…
