"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •661 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 2,030.40 | -8.00 | -0.39% |
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WTI Crude •23 hours | 94.40 | -1.45 | -1.51% |
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Gasoline •23 hours | 3.463 | +0.001 | +0.01% |
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Ethanol •661 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •661 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 661 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 661 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 22 hours | 105.33 | +0.26 | +0.25% | |
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Natural Gas • 23 hours | 2.523 | -0.091 | -3.48% | |
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Heating Oil • 23 hours | 3.887 | -0.101 | -2.53% |
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Warning: "What You Dont Report in Your Balance Sheet Can Screw the Average Iinvestor"!
This is your daily dose of the Goldman Sachs Stress Test Scenario Analysis, Professional edition. I will be releasing the Stress Tests for Wells Fargo, PNC, Sun Trust, Morgan Stanley…
Problems in the U.S. Banking System Resurface
The general theme this week could be risk aversion as problems in the U.S. banking system resurfaced after several weeks of hibernation and triggered a massive migration to safe havens…
Economist Mankiw Defends Policy of Theft
And who is Mankiw (or any economist) to decide what is best for anyone else? That Mankiw thinks that he or the Fed can decide that it is "irrational" for…
Agri-Food Thoughts
Commodities is an asset class that actually includes three sectors. Each of these sectors has different dynamics and economic drivers.
Call This Deflation?
So money-supply growth of 18% plus consumer prices inflation half-as-great again as the official target now equals deflation. Right...?
Bad, Worse, or Worst?
Be extremely skeptical when you hear some pundit pronouncing that this piece of short-term good news or another is an "all clear" signal. Until we start seeing a systematic improvement…
Has Stock Market Rally Run its Course?
The stock market will tell its own story over the next few days, but it is crucial that the lows of March 9 hold in order for base formation development…
Obama: the Grand Illusionist
... he uses the magician's tactic of deflection to sell his economic gimmickry. First Obama directs your attention towards his promise of removing Bush's budget tricks and repudiating his fiscal…
First Shot
We remain in Buy Mode, looking for the market to move higher into the end of the month. That being said, today's action was weak - but we've already seen…
Quarterly Review and Outlook: First Quarter 2009
Over the next decade, the critical element in any investment portfolio will be the correct call regarding inflation or its antipode, deflation. Despite near term deflation risks, the overwhelming consensus…
