Gold •123 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% | |
Platinum •15 mins | 1,004.70 | +1.80 | +0.18% | |
WTI Crude •10 mins | 70.78 | +1.29 | +1.86% | |
Gasoline •10 mins | 2.000 | +0.034 | +1.71% | |
Ethanol •123 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% | |
Silver •123 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
Silver • 123 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | ||
Copper • 123 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | ||
Brent Crude • 10 mins | 74.42 | +1.32 | +1.81% | ||
Natural Gas • 10 mins | 2.589 | -0.074 | -2.78% | ||
Heating Oil • 10 mins | 2.266 | +0.031 | +1.41% |
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FakeBen is a blog to monitor the Fed and its actions and encourage community participation. At FakeBen, we believe that the Fed policy of the last two decades has created a credit bubble as large as that created in the 1920s. This bubble will lead to either inflation, a recession, or both.
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