"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •15 mins | 2,328.70 | -9.70 | -0.41% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 912.10 | -3.70 | -0.40% |
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WTI Crude •10 mins | 82.72 | -0.09 | -0.11% |
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Gasoline •2 hours | 2.732 | -0.003 | -0.10% |
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Ethanol •4 hours | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •15 mins | 27.21 | -0.14 | -0.52% |
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Silver • 15 mins | 27.21 | -0.14 | -0.52% | |
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Copper • 15 mins | 4.472 | -0.015 | -0.32% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 87.92 | -0.10 | -0.11% | |
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Natural Gas • 15 mins | 1.666 | +0.013 | +0.79% | |
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Heating Oil • 32 mins | 2.548 | -0.002 | -0.08% |
Alasdair Macleod
Contributor since: 23 Jul 2012
Biography
Alasdair Macleod runs FinanceAndEconomics.org, a website dedicated to sound money and demystifying finance and economics. Alasdair has a background as a stockbroker, banker and economist. He is a Senior Fellow at the GoldMoney Foundation.
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Central Bankers and Politicians are Running Out of Ideas
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The Gold Price and the Exponential Growth of Our Problems
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The Purpose of Market Intervention
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Subjective Value and Currencies
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Euro Shorts Smell Blood
Within the eurozone there are great stresses. At one extreme there are punitive costs of borrowing for Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, Ireland, Spain and Italy; at…
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