"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 •14 mins | 1,523.20 | +25.00 | +1.67% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 87.23 | -0.89 | -1.01% |
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Gasoline •13 mins | 2.709 | -0.019 | -0.71% |
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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 | 94.22 | -0.40 | -0.42% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 2.947 | -0.012 | -0.41% | |
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Heating Oil • 13 mins | 4.161 | -0.045 | -1.07% |
Markets / Other
The "Too Big to Fail" Lie (as applied to US banks)
One part of the lie was that rescuing the banks would ensure the continued flow of credit to private individuals and businesses. It is now blatantly obvious that this was…
A Five-Step Guide to Contagion
It is widely accepted that grieving arrives in five stages: denial, anger, bargaining, sadness, and acceptance. If we apply that psychological continuum to the financial market construct, it offers a…
Gold Thoughts
The calendar date is now sufficiently far enough in the future from the injection of massive amounts of liquidity by the world's central banks in 2008 that if inflation was…
Europe's Return to Risky Investment
Over 100 banks are opening soon, buying junk bonds is gaining popularity and emerging markets are the trendy investment. Sound familiar? Europe appears to be returning to some bad investment…
As Ford Goes
As far as bellwethers go however, while I am sure keeping tabs on GS and Apple is a prudent idea, it appears to me doing the same for Ford might…
Not So Fast!
Not so fast for the economy, for inflation and, therefore, for Fed tightening. The Commerce Department's first guess at Q4:2009 real GDP growth of 5.7% is likely to be the…
Government Stimulus, One Year Later
Rather than learning the lessons of the past year, the administration is moving full-speed ahead to do even more economic damage. With the stimulus bill set as a precedent and…
The Depression is Already Here for Some Members of Europe, and It Just Might Be Contagious!
Austria, Belgium and Sweden, while apparently healthy from a cursory perspective, have between one quarter to one half of their GDPs exposed to central and eastern European countries facing a…
Classic Videos: Hyperinflation Nation Part 1/3
With guys like Ron Paul, Peter Schiff and Marc Faber suddenly getting a lot of airtime, the number of compelling videos available on YouTube is soaring. I've been sifting through…
Economic Recovery and the Price of Gold
The lingering pessimism over the recovery will only increase the chances of the recovery's sustainability inasmuch as it should keep policy makers "on point" and thereby lessen the chances that…
