"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 •10 mins | 2,059.30 | -3.00 | -0.15% |
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WTI Crude •23 hours | 95.42 | +0.61 | +0.64% |
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Gasoline •23 hours | 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 • 22 hours | 101.29 | +1.23 | +1.23% | |
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Natural Gas • 23 hours | 2.757 | -0.012 | -0.43% | |
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Heating Oil • 23 hours | 3.899 | +0.083 | +2.16% |
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Robust Long Term Demand Fundamentals for Precious Metals
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Inflation Expectations and Gold Prices
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Art of the Collapse
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Investing Wisely -- Semi's - Valuation Ranking via Comparative Analytics
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China's Naval Ambitions Spur New Regional Strategic Planning
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Will the US Treasury Defend the US-Dollar?
Everything depends on proper listening. Of ten people who listen to the same speech or story, each person may well understand it differently. Perhaps, only one of them will understand…
Falling Dollar Means Rapid Consumer Price Inflation
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Different Countries, Different Concerns - The U.S. and South Korea
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Anti-Catalyst
The basic read on the market is that it has gone sideways to slightly higher for the past several days. This builds up potential for a larger move. That move…
Orwell Targets Bernanke: An Unteachable Hole in the Air
The reason last Friday's speech could be analyzed three weeks before it was delivered is Bernanke's predictability. He will do nothing that veers from the course he found convenient for…
