"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •583 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 2,099.40 | +28.80 | +1.39% |
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WTI Crude •4 hours | 63.55 | +0.26 | +0.41% |
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Gasoline •4 hours | 1.953 | +0.027 | +1.38% |
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Ethanol •583 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •583 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 583 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 583 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 3 hours | 68.05 | +0.50 | +0.74% | |
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Natural Gas • 4 hours | 3.422 | -0.087 | -2.48% | |
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Heating Oil • 4 hours | 2.413 | +0.020 | +0.84% |
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Growth And Debt: Is There A Trade-Off?
The Obama administration apparently believes in a trade-off between growth and debt. It wants to stimulate fast growth and is willing to pay for it in the form of unprecedented…
Gold and Gold Equities Pop and Oil Has a Drop
Gold and gold equities have performed well over the past two months climbing in value as the broad market drifts sideways waiting for buyers or sellers to step up to…
About this Bank Plan - It Won't Save the Truly Insolvent Banks!
During the housing boom, Wells Fargo expanded its real estate portfolio and avoided making option Adjustable Rate Mortgages (ARMs) or negative amortizing loans. Despite avoiding these riskier loans, Wells Fargo's…
The Long-Run Value of Gold, Part III
...Gold is demonstrably not the ultimate inflation hedge. Nor is it anything much compared to stocks, bonds or real estate...
Graceland Updates 4am-7am
Handled properly, gold is the world's lowest risk investment. Handled with improper tactics, it's a dynamite stick in your mouth. What you may have been taught is diversification of risk,…
2009: Another Year of Shock and Awe
The things they're doing are not only unproductive, they're the exact opposite of what should be done. The country got into this mess by living beyond its means for more…
Shortage of Critical Commodities Seen Already
Maybe you thought that less trade with China would mean fewer choices of lawn gnomes at Walmart this summer. And since you've recently sworn off, who cares anyway. Turns out…
Confidence More Important Than Gold
Governments dread investors flocking to gold because it shows a lack of confidence in riskier alternatives available. Gold's attraction is that its value cannot go to zero; that it has…
Stimulus: Putting Hippos on the Titanic
Watching the stimulus debate is quite unnerving; we are witnessing eloquent politicians and confident bureaucrats that are really clumsy and clueless about the economy ready to do major damage to…
Finally, the Plan ... Sort of
At this juncture, short-term movements are almost impossible to predict, although 90% down-days are usually followed by two- to seven-day bounces. Seven out of the eight most recent 90% down-days…
