"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •582 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •14 mins | 1,939.40 | -131.20 | -6.34% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 63.69 | +0.40 | +0.63% |
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Gasoline •11 mins | 1.940 | +0.014 | +0.72% |
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Ethanol •582 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •582 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 582 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 582 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 67.94 | +0.39 | +0.58% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 3.518 | +0.009 | +0.26% | |
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Heating Oil • 11 mins | 2.414 | +0.020 | +0.85% |
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The Fate of Paper Money
The first well-documented widespread use of paper money was in China during the Tang (618-907 A.D.) dynasty around 800 A.D. Paper money spread to the city of Tabriz, Persia in…
Monetary Delays
Changes in money-supply trends affect prices in ways that are often difficult to predict, thanks in part to the lengthy and variable delays involved. However, it is still possible to…
Stretched
We remain in Buy Mode, looking for the market to remain higher (buy the rumor) into 1/20, where we'll get a sell off (sell the news) after Obama takes the…
Amid the Rally, I Look at the Doo Doo 32 and Their Receipt of the TARP
As I sit back and look at the market go through its bear rally, performing a myriad of what if scenarios on my various bearish positions and generating cash where…
Honest Money Gold and Silver Report: Bullish on Commodity Stocks
Gold, silver, copper, and other commodity and energy stocks are beginning to show strong chart patterns, and some have broken out of potentially powerful formations. Here are a few stocks…
What the Market Needs Now ...
Investors who were on the wrong side of the market got pretty beat up in the past few months. The worse the beating, the longer it takes someone to regain…
5 Predications for 2009
I expect the bond market to begin a topping process, which will include consolidating at these higher levels and build a topping pattern. During this process, I expect to see…
Fed Refuses to Trade Secrets
Unfortunately, while I am exactly like the Federal Reserve in that we are both total, complete failures at our jobs, mostly through sheer stupidity, the repercussions are quite different.
The Oracle of 2009
A Debt issuance cycle shares many characteristics with the Ponzi scheme now in the news with the Madoff fraud. When total Debt is growing it stimulates the economy with new…
Recessions: Are They Really as Bad as They are Made Out To Be?
The great depression, which has come to be known as the mother of all financial disasters lasted from 1930-1939, and the Dow shed almost 90% of its value; from a…
