"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •586 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 2,115.00 | -1.50 | -0.07% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 64.53 | +0.17 | +0.26% |
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Gasoline •11 mins | 1.984 | -0.002 | -0.09% |
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Ethanol •586 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •586 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 586 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 586 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 69.37 | +0.33 | +0.48% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 3.154 | +0.016 | +0.51% | |
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Heating Oil • 11 mins | 2.395 | -0.022 | -0.93% |
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Witches Brew: Fingers of Instability Part V
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The Globalization Trap Part I: Four Points of Evidence
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Can Energizer Holdings Energize Your Holdings?
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Yen May Be Easiest Of Upcoming Currency Trades
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Ten 'Real' Problems With the US Economy; A Behind the Scene Look at Auto Manufacturing
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What Ron Paul Told Me About the End of Dollar Hegemony
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Bail Ins and Taking Private Wealth
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Don't Be Fooled by Libya - This is a Failed State
Gunmen today seized Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan from a hotel in central Tripoli, releasing him shortly afterwards, but making it clear that post-Gaddafi Libya is a failed state and…
Houston, We (May) Have a Problem!
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