"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •679 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 2,138.80 | -58.50 | -2.66% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 100.92 | -0.10 | -0.10% |
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Gasoline •13 mins | 3.591 | -0.028 | -0.77% |
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Ethanol •679 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •679 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 679 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 679 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 105.95 | +0.32 | +0.30% | |
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Natural Gas • 12 mins | 2.871 | +0.007 | +0.24% | |
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Heating Oil • 13 mins | 3.953 | -0.014 | -0.36% |
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Walter Williams on the 2012 Election and Sound Money
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Market Musings: 'The Hopemeister'
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Investors Are Returning To The Undervalued Mining Stocks
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Can We Trust Government Statistics on the Economy?
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Russia and China's Energy Dispute and the Struggle for Eurasian Dominance
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The 6-Year Cycle Peak is Near
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The Bear Market Rally Has Begun
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Galluping Gold!
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Gold and Your Blue Pen
Jobs report day is this Friday. 8:30am is when the "big news" gets released. How big this news ever really is for gold, I'm not so sure. Regardless, gold can…
Door #3
At times it may appear as if I randomly piecemeal aspects of historical trading environments together - a piece of 98' here, a dash of 02' there. But there's a…
