Gold •151 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% | |
Platinum •10 mins | 943.90 | -10.20 | -1.07% | |
WTI Crude •10 mins | 68.54 | +0.54 | +0.79% | |
Gasoline •10 mins | 1.909 | +0.010 | +0.52% | |
Ethanol •151 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% | |
Silver •151 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
Silver • 151 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | ||
Copper • 151 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | ||
Brent Crude • 10 mins | 72.39 | +0.55 | +0.77% | ||
Natural Gas • 10 mins | 3.167 | -0.196 | -5.83% | ||
Heating Oil • 10 mins | 2.207 | +0.015 | +0.68% |
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Dr. Kurt Richebacher is the editor of The Richebacher Letter. Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker once said: "Sometimes I think that the job of central bankers is to prove Kurt Richebächer wrong." A regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, Strategic Investment and several other respected financial publications, Dr. Richebächer's insightful analysis stems from the Austrian School of economics. France's Le Figaro magazine has done a feature story on him as "the man who predicted the Asian crisis."
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