Gold •142 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% | |
Platinum •15 mins | 975.10 | +4.60 | +0.47% | |
WTI Crude •3 hours | 71.24 | +1.14 | +1.63% | |
Gasoline •3 hours | 2.061 | +0.002 | +0.10% | |
Ethanol •142 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% | |
Silver •142 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
Silver • 142 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | ||
Copper • 142 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | ||
Brent Crude • 2 hours | 75.17 | +0.94 | +1.27% | ||
Natural Gas • 3 hours | 3.129 | -0.210 | -6.29% | ||
Heating Oil • 3 hours | 2.275 | +0.001 | +0.02% |
Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010
John Rubino edits DollarCollapse.com and has authored or co-authored five books, including The Money Bubble: What To Do Before It Pops, Clean Money: Picking Winners in the Green Tech Boom, The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit From It, and How to Profit from the Coming Real Estate Bust. After earning a Finance MBA from New York University, he spent the 1980s on Wall Street, as a currency trader, equity analyst and junk bond analyst. During the 1990s he was a featured columnist with TheStreet.com and a frequent contributor to Individual Investor, Online Investor, and Consumers Digest, among many other publications. He now writes for CFA Magazine.
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