| Gold •647 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% | |
| Platinum •10 mins | 2,065.20 | -46.90 | -2.22% | |
| WTI Crude •1 day | 95.81 | -2.06 | -2.10% | |
| Gasoline •1 day | 3.016 | +0.015 | +0.51% | |
| Ethanol •647 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% | |
| Silver •647 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
| Silver • 647 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | ||
| Copper • 647 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | ||
| Brent Crude • 1 day | 95.20 | -0.72 | -0.75% | ||
| Natural Gas • 1 day | 2.652 | -0.018 | -0.67% | ||
| Heating Oil • 1 day | 3.745 | -0.192 | -4.87% |
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…