"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •854 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 1,520.00 | +21.80 | +1.46% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 88.59 | +0.47 | +0.53% |
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Gasoline •11 mins | 2.749 | +0.020 | +0.74% |
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Ethanol •854 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •854 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 854 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 854 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 96.11 | +1.49 | +1.57% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 2.940 | -0.019 | -0.64% | |
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Heating Oil • 11 mins | 4.238 | +0.032 | +0.76% |
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Extend and Pretend: Stage I Comes to an End!
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The Case For Treasury Bonds
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How Wall Street Consumes All Retirement Earnings
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In the Shadow of the Dragon
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Classic Videos: Niall Ferguson on America's Death Spiral
In this recent CNN interview, Harvard Professor Niall Ferguson predicts that, barring a radical change in policy, "nasty fiscal arithmetic" will send the U.S. into a "death spiral." Some representative…
Time to Board the Gold Stocks Train?
One of the big hints that gold stocks will be ready for take-off is when they stop following the broader markets and strictly track gold, particularly if the market falls…
ECB Leaves Rates at 1%; Traders Waiting to Assess Trichet
The European Central Bank left its benchmark interest rate at a historically low 1% as expected, but the key to today’s Euro movement will be what comes out of the…
Shorting Stocks Explained: 50 Day Crossing 200 Day Moving Average Signals Major Market Drop
These past few days as the market indices broke through the head and shoulders neckline, I have had a barrage of emails asking if it was too late to buy…
Investing for Deflation: Reader Asks the Question of the Decade!
The reader asks some great trading questions, but the deflationary investment question is an "all world question" if you believe deflation is here or coming. You have to make the…
