"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •23 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 944.40 | -1.30 | -0.14% |
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WTI Crude •4 hours | 77.16 | -1.12 | -1.43% |
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Gasoline •4 hours | 2.461 | -0.007 | -0.29% |
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Ethanol •23 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •23 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 23 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 23 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 3 hours | 81.13 | -1.24 | -1.51% | |
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Natural Gas • 4 hours | 2.006 | -0.035 | -1.71% | |
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Heating Oil • 4 hours | 2.420 | -0.052 | -2.08% |
William Poole
Contributor since: 07 Jul 2010
Biography
William Poole is Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, Senior Economic Adviser to Merk Investments and a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the University of Delaware.
Poole retired as President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis in March 2008. In that position, which he held from March 1998, he served on the Federal Reserve's main monetary policy body, the Federal Open Market Committee. He directed the Bank's main office in St. Louis and its three branches in Memphis, Little Rock and Louisville.
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Merk Commentary: Budget Battles Ahead
My most recent Merk commentary, published July 25, was motivated by the possibility of an impasse on the federal debt ceiling. Now that President Obama…
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Debt Ceiling - What Now?
As I write early Monday morning, it appears that the federal government is at the brink of default. The Republicans and Democrats have laid out…
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Budget Battles Ahead
I began writing this note on New Year's Day; the holiday season is over all too early for me as I contemplate the coming year.…
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Fed Crossing the Line?
New York Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) president Bill Dudley's speech Friday attracted much press attention, as it should have. His speech is correctly read, as…
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Greek Lessons for the United States
The Greek sovereign debt crisis has grabbed global headlines over recent weeks, and has prompted the market to scrutinize other European sovereign debt situations more…
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