"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •171 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 936.40 | +12.90 | +1.40% |
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WTI Crude •1 day | 69.46 | +0.08 | +0.12% |
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Gasoline •1 day | 1.942 | +0.019 | +0.98% |
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Ethanol •171 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •171 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 171 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 171 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 1 day | 72.94 | +0.06 | +0.08% | |
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Natural Gas • 1 day | 3.748 | +0.164 | +4.58% | |
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Heating Oil • 1 day | 2.232 | -0.006 | -0.27% |
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
My father, who at one time was an education minister in the Kenyan government, used to tell a story of a long-forgotten crisis when the…
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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
"The issuer's promise" is a phrase I have used recently to describe the backing for fiat currencies. The purpose of this article is to define…
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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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