"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •138 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 973.60 | -0.90 | -0.09% |
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WTI Crude •16 mins | 68.93 | -0.23 | -0.33% |
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Gasoline •20 mins | 2.018 | -0.000 | -0.02% |
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Ethanol •138 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •138 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 138 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 138 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 2 hours | 73.30 | +2.26 | +3.18% | |
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Natural Gas • 10 mins | 2.951 | -0.022 | -0.74% | |
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Heating Oil • 14 mins | 2.247 | -0.005 | -0.20% |
Article Archive | Page 4732
The Post-Boom Boom
Every week in these most-unsettled financial markets is an adventure. This week saw the Dow and S&P500 about unchanged for the week. The Transports declined 1%, while the Utilities were…
Conflicting Opinions
What can we make of the huge variations in economic predictions by quite reasonable analysts? I briefly touch on the topic from my perch in Halifax where I am cool,…
That Was The Week That Was!
A quiet week, with gold still holding the Euro's hand or is it the Euro holding gold's hand? Right now it is around $7 ahead of the Euro. The Gold…
Trading the Gold-Stock Bull 2
The stock markets, and more specifically the collective behavior of their countless participants, never cease to utterly amaze me. While most folks agonize over yesterday's dead bubble and waste away…
The 'Washington Agreement' review - will go ahead!
The 15 signatories of the Washington Agreement of September the 26th 1999 announced the following, in Clause 5 of the Agreement stating: - "This agreement will be reviewed after five…
Exuberance Returns
Stock markets rise and fall more than they should on any rational basis. This is usually shown by excessive optimism when times are good and exaggerated despondency during recessions. Today,…
Engineering Earnings
This week's economic data continued to depict an economy gaining strength. However, the stock market has not been impressed as the S&P 500 closed at a two-month low on Tuesday.…
The 'Trading Range Economy' and the Gold Market
In my last commentary entitled "Inflation, Deflation, Reflation," we considered the possibility that the next 5-6 years will witness a continuing cycle of inflation, followed by deflation, followed by reflation,…
Inflation, Deflation, Reflation
The ongoing debate in the inflation/deflation scenario is raging hotter than ever with seemingly no one able to come to any agreement about whether inflation or deflation will be "king"…
Gold Standards, the State, and Free Banking
"The gold standard has been destroyed chiefly because it was an obstacle to inflation" - Friedrich Hayek, Can We Still Avoid Inflation? (From a 1970 lecture before the Trustees and…
