"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •581 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 2,093.70 | -83.00 | -3.81% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 64.17 | -0.97 | -1.49% |
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Gasoline •11 mins | 1.953 | -0.012 | -0.62% |
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Ethanol •581 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •581 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 581 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 581 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 68.45 | -1.01 | -1.45% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 3.455 | -0.010 | -0.29% | |
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Heating Oil • 11 mins | 2.421 | -0.049 | -1.99% |
Markets / Other
USG Corporation - A Note
The continuing collapse of the US housing sector has severely impacted building material manufacturers such as USG Corporation (USG). Construction of new home in the US have been literally falling…
Only in Canada -- A Coalition of the Also-Rans?
This coming Monday, according to reliable sources, Canada will experience something unprecedented in its history -- a coalition government forming to unceremoniously turf a recently (and expensively) elected minority government…
Stop The Auto Bailout Campaign - Phase Three
The automakers have made another push for money, now asking for $34 billion when two weeks ago they only needed $25 billion. It's time once again to let our representatives…
Gold and Clean Tech: Two Sides, Same Coin
But there's another side to this coin: The destination of all this new government spending. For politicians, a world in crisis is a world open to serious renovation, without the…
Gold Buyers Smash Records
The spot price of gold has fallen more than 20% from its all-time high, reached in March of 2008. But if you think that means demand has declined, think again…
The Great Reflation
The United States has instituted quantitative easing and now has embarked on the ultimate journey that will turn the G7 into Weimar Republics. This week they announced another term facility…
Central Bankers Open the Floodgates to Fight Deflation
The Fed's money-printing operations are showing-up in the explosive growth of the monetary base, which includes banknotes and coins in circulation, plus commercial banks' reserves held at the Fed. The…
ChartWorks
The US Dollar is rolling over. After generating upside exhaustion readings in the last two weeks of October it was followed by a bearish divergence and sell signal in the…
What Can the NYA New Lows vs. the S&Ps Relative Strength Tell You About the Market?
We have discussed the NYA "New Daily Lows" vs. the market many times before. Basically, when New Lows fall to below 50 to 28 per day, the market faces a…
Deflation and Decoupling
In a deflation, or money supply contraction, the dollars that remain have increased purchasing power because there are fewer of them around. Where debt is involved, however, the pre-deflation debt…
