"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •141 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 971.30 | +5.50 | +0.57% |
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WTI Crude •10 mins | 69.75 | +1.00 | +1.45% |
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Gasoline •10 mins | 2.046 | +0.055 | +2.74% |
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Ethanol •141 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •141 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 141 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 141 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 10 mins | 73.82 | +1.01 | +1.39% | |
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Natural Gas • 10 mins | 3.285 | +0.092 | +2.88% | |
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Heating Oil • 10 mins | 2.256 | +0.030 | +1.35% |
Doug French
Contributor since: 20 Sep 2013
Biography
Douglas French is president of the Mises Institute and author of Early Speculative Bubbles & Increases in the Money Supply and Walk Away: The Rise and Fall of the Home-Ownership Myth. He received his master's degree in economics from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, under Murray Rothbard with Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe serving on his thesis committee. French teaches in the Mises Academy.
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