"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •816 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 1,740.50 | -57.20 | -3.18% |
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WTI Crude •10 mins | 95.23 | +2.82 | +3.05% |
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Gasoline •35 mins | 3.431 | +0.038 | +1.11% |
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Ethanol •816 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •816 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 816 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 816 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 107.76 | +3.44 | +3.30% | |
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Natural Gas • 36 mins | 3.071 | -0.125 | -3.91% | |
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Heating Oil • 17 mins | 4.885 | +0.201 | +4.28% |
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Monetary Malpractice: Dysfunctional Markets
One of the first axioms of analysis is: "Garbage In, Garbage Out"! If your data is flawed, everything you do with it and the decisions stemming from it are flawed…
Stupidity, the Sequel
It seems like only yesterday. Ok, it seems like sixteen months ago. Are we really going to do this again?
The Five Criteria for Every Investment
Look at each investment you currently own and see how it stacks up. Safety is a major concern for two reasons. First, retirees and people approaching retirement cannot afford to…
Forex Trading: Why You Need to Look Past 'Fiscal Cliffs'
Hours before the December 31 deadline, U.S. lawmakers reached an agreement to avoid the "fiscal cliff." When trading resumed on January 2, most markets around the world opened higher. EUR/USD,…
Congress Avoids the Cliff by Selling Us Down the River
With the possible exception of the New York Times' editorial board (and the cast of The Jersey Shore), everyone on the planet understood that the United States Government needs to…
Lindsay Wound Be Peaked
Of course rising taxes for the rich or poor is not good for a market economy, but the bureaucracy's price managers have the public so corrupted and confused at this…
A Look Back at 2012
Here is a quick time-lapse video of some of the major comparative patterns we introduced and utilized in the markets in 2012. We tend to gravitate towards comparatives of influential…
Gold as Unit-of-Account
What's the single most important financial knowledge that seems to have been lost today? After having studied the great economists of all times, we'd say it's the fact that money…
Treasury's Last Pillar Crumbles
With the return of Shinzo Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party to power in Japan, the market for US Treasuries may be losing its last external pillar of support.
Higher Low in Place for Gold Stocks as 2013 Beckons
With all of the volatility of the past nine months, few market observers would think the gold equities have begun a series of higher lows or even a new bull…
