"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •10 mins | 2,347.20 | +4.70 | +0.20% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 922.10 | +1.60 | +0.17% |
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WTI Crude •8 hours | 83.85 | +0.28 | +0.34% |
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Gasoline •8 hours | 2.765 | +0.006 | +0.23% |
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Ethanol •6 hours | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •10 mins | 27.54 | -0.10 | -0.35% |
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Silver • 10 mins | 27.54 | -0.10 | -0.35% | |
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Copper • 10 mins | 4.574 | +0.036 | +0.78% | |
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Brent Crude • 7 hours | 89.50 | +0.49 | +0.55% | |
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Natural Gas • 10 hours | 1.614 | -0.024 | -1.47% | |
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Heating Oil • 8 hours | 2.548 | -0.002 | -0.09% |
John Browne
Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010
Biography
John Browne is the Senior Economic Consultant for Euro Pacific Capital, Inc. Mr. Brown is a distinguished former member of Britain's Parliament who served on the Treasury Select Committee, as Chairman of the Conservative Small Business Committee, and as a close associate of then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Among his many notable assignments, John served as a principal advisor to Mrs. Thatcher's government on issues related to the Soviet Union, and was the first to convince Thatcher of the growing stature of then Agriculture Minister Mikhail Gorbachev. As a partial result of Brown's advocacy, Thatcher famously pronounced that Gorbachev was a man the West "could do business with." A graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Britain's version of West Point and retired British army major, John served as a pilot, parachutist, and communications specialist in the elite Grenadiers of the Royal Guard.
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A Test of Wills
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Reports of Profits While Banks Fail
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The Best of Times, The Worst of Times for U.S. Dollar
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Sickness May Be Cure for U.S. Economy
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Gold Climbs as Economic Catastrophe Looms
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Pelosi Stimulus Casts Shadow Over Obama, America, World
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The Road to Bank Nationalization
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Smaller Stimulus Leaves Room For Restructuring
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Price Gap Portends Gold Price Boom
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Government Panic Could Herald Dollar Panic
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Bonds in 2009: A Tough Call
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2009 - Likely Vintage Year for Gold
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Congress Votes for Misemployment
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An Historic Challenge for New Leadership
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Deleveraging Pushes Up the Dollar
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China Plays a Better Long Term Hand
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China Gets it Right, But Hurts America
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Obama to the Rescue?
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Reality Dawning...For Gold
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A Missed Opportunity
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