Gold •171 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% | |
Platinum •15 mins | 936.40 | +12.90 | +1.40% | |
WTI Crude •1 day | 69.46 | +0.08 | +0.12% | |
Gasoline •1 day | 1.942 | +0.019 | +0.98% | |
Ethanol •171 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% | |
Silver •171 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
Silver • 171 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | ||
Copper • 171 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | ||
Brent Crude • 1 day | 72.94 | +0.06 | +0.08% | ||
Natural Gas • 1 day | 3.748 | +0.164 | +4.58% | ||
Heating Oil • 1 day | 2.232 | -0.006 | -0.27% |
Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010
Nelson Hultberg is a freelance writer in Dallas, Texas and the Executive Director of Americans for a Free Republic www .afr.org. His articles have appeared in such publications as The Dallas Morning News, Insight, The Freeman, Liberty, and The Social Critic, as well as numerous Internet sites. He is the author of Why We Must Abolish The Income Tax And The IRS (1997) and Breaking the Demopublican Monopoly(2004). He is presently finishing a book on political-economic philosophy entitled The Golden Mean: The Case for Libertarian Politics and Conservative Values.
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