"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •676 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 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 •676 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •676 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 676 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 676 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% |
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A Paradigm Shift, Exiting Easy And Cheap
The massive growth of global prosperity over the last five centuries has been driven by easy and cheap access to critical materials:
Why Greece Bailout Games Will Cause The Rest Of The EU To Breakout The Grease
Yesterday I shared my opinion of Grecian bailout games with Capital Account's Lauren Lyster. It was direct, honest, hard hitting and borderline offensive - hopefully par for the course of…
Passport's Burbank to Bloomberg TV: Bearish on Markets, Investing in Oil
Fund manager John Burbank, who manages about $4 billion in assets as founder and chief investment officer of Passport Capital LLC, spoke about his bearish view of the economy with…
SPX and 2012 Elections
With the 2012 elections looming, politics are increasingly dominating newsflow. And it is only going to get worse, news will be all politics all the time by summer. Speculators and…
Fatally Flawed Approaches to the Budget Deficit and Taxes...
A number of proposals on taxes and the budget have come out recently, one by President Obama, one by Mitt Romney, and one by a friend, John Mauldin. Every one…
Debunking the Peak Oil Debunkers
Strangely with oil prices rising once again there's been a resurgence of articles claiming that Peak Oil Theory is both a theory and is false. One recent article went as…
Less Cluck For Your Buck
An important trend for many years has been the rising preference of consumers for chicken. Apparently those boneless, skinless, tasteless, chicken breasts are quite popular. In the U.S., production of…
Silver Market Update
Silver is currently trading at key resistance levels. See below, a six-year silver chart ...
Gold Stocks Nearing End of Wall of Worry Stage
Over the past few months we’ve analyzed gold stocks from a historical perspective. We’ve compared this bull market to the past bull market as well as historical bull markets in…
Fed Conflates Inflation with Growth
It is a sad situation when everything the man in charge of our central bank professes to understand about inflation is wrong. Mr. Bernanke does not know what causes inflation,…
