"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 •20 mins | 1,525.60 | +27.40 | +1.83% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 87.02 | -1.10 | -1.25% |
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Gasoline •11 mins | 2.705 | -0.023 | -0.85% |
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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 | 93.99 | -0.63 | -0.67% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 2.942 | -0.017 | -0.57% | |
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Heating Oil • 13 mins | 4.151 | -0.055 | -1.30% |
Markets / Other
Storing Wealth in Cash Paying Negative Real Returns
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The List of Warren Buffett Stocks ...
Last week, the much anticipated Warren Buffett Report was issued for Berkshire Hathaway. Like all his followers, I love reading his yearly report, especially for any insights that can be…
Honest Money Gold and Silver Report: Profits
Many of the stocks in our stock watch list profited significantly on gold's breakout. The correction ensued and the rest is history. Positions were then taken in several gold mining…
Inflation: The Economic Factor that Never Stops
I am a guy who thinks that such huge explosions in money supplies around the world and the explosions in government deficit-spending around the world will lead to catastrophic explosions…
It's Official: The US Housing Downturn Has Resumed in Earnest
One thing that I have been proven correct on thus far is the housing market. Despite what was probably at least a trillion dollars of effort directed at suspending real…
Am I Really Missing The Volatility?!
It was another quiet day on Tuesday. The stock market opened with a gap up, but faded; bonds with a gap down, but covered that gap into the close. June…
Let Them Eat Paper - Qu'ils mangent de papier
When a paper-promise, debt-based monetary system is under stress due to economic difficulty, there is only one play in the playbook - defile the currency. Drop the interest rates, guarantee…
Inflation Risk and the Mythical Gold Bubble
The strong rise in the gold price has led to a huge wave of pundits claiming that gold is in a "bubble." In short, we find this thesis to be…
Safe Havens Through the Looking Glass
For some time now, the most knowledgeable and principled of investors have been perplexed, to say the least, by what the markets have recently defined as "risk" and "safe havens."…
