"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •172 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 936.40 | +12.90 | +1.40% |
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WTI Crude •1 day | 69.46 | +0.08 | +0.12% |
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Gasoline •1 day | 1.942 | +0.019 | +0.98% |
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Ethanol •172 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •172 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 172 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 172 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 1 day | 72.94 | +0.06 | +0.08% | |
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Natural Gas • 1 day | 3.748 | +0.164 | +4.58% | |
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Heating Oil • 1 day | 2.232 | -0.006 | -0.27% |
Michael Pollaro
Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010
Biography
Michael Pollaro is a retired Investment Banking professional, most recently Chief Operating Officer for the Bank's Cash Equity Trading Division. He is a passionate free market economist in the Austrian School tradition, a great admirer of the US founding fathers Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and a private investor.
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