"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •668 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 2,011.90 | +17.30 | +0.87% |
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WTI Crude •1 day | 101.94 | -3.13 | -2.98% |
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Gasoline •1 day | 3.595 | -0.020 | -0.55% |
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Ethanol •668 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •668 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 668 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 668 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 24 hours | 108.17 | -2.23 | -2.02% | |
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Natural Gas • 1 day | 2.780 | +0.013 | +0.47% | |
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Heating Oil • 1 day | 3.946 | -0.135 | -3.30% |
Markets / Other
Breaking Open the Piggy Bank
We are primarily motivated by valuations, and we are patient investors. Moreover, we think it makes more sense to focus effort on valuation work, because if your valuation work isn't…
Equity Rally Should Boost Discounted Rare Earth and Uranium Miners
I notice with interest that the popular media is ignoring the World Trade Organization case against China for restricting exports of critical materials (REMX). This reduction of supply of the…
Everybody in the Industry Knows the US Doesn't Have the Gold
In this week's talk with National Numismatics' Tom Cloud, he explains why Germany's gold repatriation is just the beginning, the US Mint's silver shortage will continue, and the big money…
Monetary Base Breaking Out! Will Gold Prices Follow?
After 18 months of going sideways, the monetary base appears to be breaking out. Given QE3 where the Fed is buying $85 billion a month of securities consisting of $40…
Ten Reasons for Declining GDP Growth Over Time; Analysis of Various GDP Deflators
To compute "Real GDP" one has to adjust nominal GDP by a measure of inflation. Different measures of inflation provide different answers. Doug Short at Advisor Perspectives has an excellent…
Five Wealth SBDs (Silent But Deadlies) to Watch
In our past missives we have focused on the impact of unorthodox monetary policies currently being experienced by savers and investors. Without a doubt, things are very different. If fact,…
Is Germany Preparing for Future Capital Controls?
You've likely heard that the German central bank announced it will begin withdrawing part of its massive gold holdings from the United States as well as all its holdings from…
Are Stocks Getting Ready To Correct?
A common sense tenet of investing is assessing possible risk relative to the possible reward. As we have noted since January 24, the stock market's risk/reward ratio has entered unfavorable…
Why Buy Gold?
Gold has been real money (medium of exchange and a store of value) for over 3,000 years. It is still real money. Gold has no counter-party risk. It is not…
Central Banks: Flush With Paper Money; Low on Real Money
The Gold Money Index, created by James Turk, is a simple but logical formula. It treats central bank gold reserves as international money - the world's true and only reserve…
