"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 •20 hours | 69.46 | +0.08 | +0.12% |
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Gasoline •20 hours | 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 • 19 hours | 72.94 | +0.06 | +0.08% | |
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Natural Gas • 20 hours | 3.748 | +0.164 | +4.58% | |
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Heating Oil • 20 hours | 2.232 | -0.006 | -0.27% |
Axel Merk
Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010
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Sustainable Tax Policy: Expensing Investments
In what the Wall Street Journal hails as "one of his most dramatic gestures to business," President Obama is proposing companies be allowed to write…
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Buying a House - A Risky Proposition?
After renting four homes in the San Francisco Bay Area this decade, I bought a house last month. I had been a long-time advocate of…
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Abolishing Risk Destroys America and Your Wealth
Our willingness to engage in risks drives our prosperity. We urgently need a public debate on risk, one driven by reason, not emotion. Without risk,…
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Recognizing a Bubble - Dynamics of Free Money
The government has splattered lots of money onto the economy, working hard to reflate the bubble that got us into trouble in the first place.…
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Japanese Politics and the Yen
The U.S. dollar has been getting a beating from all sides, but its woes may be far from over - recent developments in Japan, China,…
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Fed a Rudderless Ship?
How much excitement can a statement by the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee (FOMC) generate? Given that the Fed has been printing over a $1…
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Credit Crunch Part Deux
Green Shoots Everywhere! The credit crisis is over; an economic recovery is just around the corner! Hold your horses - there may not be enough…
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Regulatory Overhaul = Summers Job Creation Program?
Today, the Administration is sharing its vision for the future of the financial system. To us, it seems more like a job creation program for…
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WANTED: Money for Uncle Sam
In our estimate, the U.S. Treasury will have to raise over $2 trillion dollars this year to finance new obligations. In addition, over $2 trillion…
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Fed Hit by Subpoena - Fasten Your Seatbelt
The Federal Reserve was served a subpoena from a Congressional committee Tuesday, as lawmakers demanded documents related to Bank of America' s acquisition of Merrill…
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