"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •79 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 979.20 | -15.20 | -1.53% |
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WTI Crude •10 mins | 71.79 | -0.16 | -0.22% |
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Gasoline •10 mins | 2.036 | -0.024 | -1.18% |
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Ethanol •79 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •79 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 79 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 79 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 10 mins | 74.48 | -0.40 | -0.53% | |
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Natural Gas • 10 mins | 2.445 | +0.097 | +4.13% | |
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Heating Oil • 10 mins | 2.161 | -0.011 | -0.49% |
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Commodity Boom
This essay was originally posted at treasurechests.info on June 4, 2006. The commodity boom currently underway in all areas is due do shortages. Shortages are the result of…
Real M2 Growth Signaling U.S. Economic Slowdown
I'm getting a lot of commentary mileage out of the May CPI report. On Wednesday, I wrote about the CPI data themselves. On Thursday, I wrote about CPI-adjusted retail sales,…
Charts and Commentary
I had a subscriber call about the Fear Index yesterday and we had a good discussion about the impact of fear levels on another dimension ... so I will share…
Oil and the 8-year Cycle
In view of the approaching 8-year cycle bottom we've been discussing in recent articles let's examine the crude oil market compared to previous cycles for ideas on what to expect…
Mr. Douglas R. Gillespie, Sr.
More volatility... For the week, the Dow added 1.2%, and the S&P500 was about unchanged. The Transports jumped 2.1%, and the Morgan Stanley Cyclical index rallied 0.4%. The Morgan Stanley…
Expected Metals Corrections
This past Tuesday the entire precious metals realm watched in stunned silence as gold plunged 7.3% and silver plummeted 10.8% in a single trading day. Not surprisingly with gold bleeding…
Sailing Withhout an Anchor!
RECENT HISTORY - Up until the early 1970's, our planet followed the Bretton Woods agreement of international monetary management. This system sought to secure the advantages of the gold standard…
Industrial Production - Weakness Developing In Household-Related Sector
Headline industrial production declined 0.1% in May as did the manufacturing component. Industrial production was constrained by Katrina-related interruptions last summer and then was boosted by post-Katrina-related rebuilding etc. My…
All Items or Core Inflation - You Can Tighten Now or Tighten Later
Do you know who popularized the concept of "core" inflation? Fed Chairman Arthur Burns. Back in the early 1970s, when both energy and food prices were soaring, Burns needed a…
Addendum: The Oil That Greases The Squeaky Wheel of Peak Oil
The Oil That Greases The Squeaky Wheel of Peak Oil Having received a couple of e-mails from folks claiming to know much more than myself about geology [which, by…
