"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •675 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •14 mins | 2,059.30 | -3.00 | -0.15% |
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WTI Crude •1 day | 95.42 | +0.61 | +0.64% |
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Gasoline •1 day | 3.527 | +0.071 | +2.05% |
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Ethanol •675 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •675 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 675 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 675 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 1 day | 101.29 | +1.23 | +1.23% | |
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Natural Gas • 1 day | 2.757 | -0.012 | -0.43% | |
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Heating Oil • 1 day | 3.899 | +0.083 | +2.16% |
Markets / Other
Is Gold Backwardation Now Permanent?
Worldwide, an incredible tower of debt has been under construction since President Nixon's 1971 default on the gold obligations of the US government. His decree severed the redeemability of the…
LTRO - Fatter than El Gordo
Gasp at the sheer size of El Tro, the €1 trillion money storm raining down on Europe's banks. The fattest prize in the world's biggest lottery, El Gordo - the…
Silver - Is the Party Over?
A couple of weeks ago, we compared the Bull market of Silver to the Nasdaq Bubble. We wrote that Silver could go as high as $38, but that that might…
A Caution Condition is Appearing on the NASDAQ 100
An Upper Bollinger with Decreasing Strength? That is what has happened since 9th of February. Note the NASADAQ 100 chart below which show's the NASDAQ from the beginning of January…
Cascade is to Domino as Greece is to Portugal
In 2010 I penned a public post based upon subscriber research called Is Another Banking Crisis Inevitable. In it I presumed that serial and or cascading sovereign defaults will break…
The Terrarium
Is there a better environment then a global credit crisis to replicate the arc of emotions and reflexes in the markets as credit is squeezed from one corner of the…
I Am Not Sure Why This Time Should be Different
I am not sure why this time should be different. Seriously. Yes, I have read all of the internet want to be commentators that claim all market analysis is useless…
The Perfect Storm
Here's what we see. Technically the barometer went into buy mode on Tuesday. However, with the market advancing so sharply in the am, a divergence in some key technical, the…
Currencies: Crisis and Opportunity
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. According to some estimates, Germany will contribute approximately 28% of the 130 billion Euro (approx. US$170 billion) bailout recently agreed for…
Why U.S. Gov't Confiscated Gold in 1933. Can it Happen Again?
More and more investors are asking this question. Many observers and commentators have ridiculed this idea as archaic with the conditions that led to the confiscation being so different as…
