| Gold •864 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% | |
| Platinum •10 mins | 1,489.70 | -30.70 | -2.02% | |
| WTI Crude •20 hours | 88.56 | -0.18 | -0.20% | |
| Gasoline •20 hours | 2.621 | -0.049 | -1.85% | |
| Ethanol •864 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% | |
| Silver •864 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
| Silver • 864 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | ||
| Copper • 864 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | ||
| Brent Crude • 19 hours | 95.84 | +0.02 | +0.02% | ||
| Natural Gas • 20 hours | 3.230 | -0.110 | -3.29% | ||
| Heating Oil • 20 hours | 4.259 | -0.028 | -0.65% |
Contributor since: 07 Jan 2014
Robert Bonomo is a blogger, novelist and esotericist. He has lived and worked in Madrid, San Francisco, Buenos Aires, Kamchatka, Miami, Valencia, Cartagena, New York and a few other not so interesting places. He has toiled as a writer, blogger, car salesman, land surveyor, media buyer, spice salesman, transportation salesman, teacher, advertising salesman, marketing manager and consultant (of course he had to be a consultant too). He has done some other things but asked that we not mention them here.
As gold broke below the psychologically important level of $1,200 an ounce late in December of 2014, the mainstream financial media burst with headlines like…