Gold •118 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% | |
Platinum •15 mins | 1,024.80 | -34.50 | -3.26% | |
WTI Crude •10 mins | 69.03 | +1.82 | +2.71% | |
Gasoline •12 mins | 2.002 | +0.050 | +2.57% | |
Ethanol •118 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% | |
Silver •118 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
Silver • 118 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | ||
Copper • 118 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | ||
Brent Crude • 10 mins | 72.90 | +1.78 | +2.50% | ||
Natural Gas • 10 mins | 2.839 | -0.020 | -0.70% | ||
Heating Oil • 10 mins | 2.196 | +0.062 | +2.90% |
Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010
Markets and cycles are my new hobby. I've seen the writing on the wall for the U.S. and the global economy and I am seeking financial salvation for myself (and anyone else who cares to listen) while Rome burns around us.
The Dow to Gold ratio is something I harp on again and again. Why? Well, two reasons. The second I'll mention later. The first reason…
NOTE: This is a sort of tit-for-tat rebuttal of a classic hatchet piece on Gold as an investment class that recently appeared in the Wall…
In the end as an investor, it's all about the scoreboard. For those who aren't traders, allocation to the correct asset classes is critical to…
The short and intermediate-term future for Gold and any investment for that matter are tricky to navigate. I have guessed right and wrong many times…
The citizens of the United States will be paying to clean up the collapse of the real estate bubble. It doesn't matter if one participated…
Why is deflation bad? If one can manage to keep one's job and one has some savings, deflation is the greatest thing since sliced bread.…
Fraud and corruption are being exposed at the highest levels of our financial markets. The integrity of our so called "free" markets has been badly…
The housing market is rapidly deteriorating under the surface. A housing price collapse is a highly deflationary event because it affects so many banks and…
I get comments and questions from people who don't understand why Gold is money and don't understand why it has any value other than as…
The recent development of the Chinese government no longer restricting Gold and silver ownership and now actively promoting it is a very, very big deal…
The non-federal, private federal reserve corporation has a no-bid contract to print money out of thin air and charge U.S. citizens money (interest) for this…
Gold versus paper. That's the real battle under the surface. This is the more important battle from a societal standpoint. Honest money or crooked money.…
Though I keep hearing how we're different than Japan and their lost two decades of deflation (or as close to it as we seem to…
It's gotten mighty lonely in the bear camp and the bulls have certainly had their way with the bears since the March 2009 lows. It…
As the deflation versus inflation debate rages on, both sides present reasonable arguments that sound plausible. I am in the camp that believes stocks, commodities,…
Although the waiting is the hardest part. The next phase of the credit contraction and next down leg in the bear market is set to…
Stocks have been a terrible investment over the past decade and they are about to get worse. Gold has been one of the best if…
The short answer: somewhere around halfway through it. The long answer follows. The price to earnings ratio for the S&P 500 is currently greater than…
Karl Denninger over at Market Ticker just came out with his 2009 prediction review bashing Gold and Robert Prechter has considered the entire run in…
The title of this post is actually a quote from Mr. JP Morgan in the early 1900s during a Congressional hearing in the United States.…