"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •580 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 2,206.60 | -2.20 | -0.10% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 64.56 | +1.35 | +2.14% |
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Gasoline •11 mins | 1.947 | +0.049 | +2.58% |
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Ethanol •581 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •580 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 580 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 580 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 68.82 | +1.49 | +2.21% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 3.471 | +0.160 | +4.83% | |
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Heating Oil • 11 mins | 2.429 | +0.019 | +0.80% |
Markets / Other
The Reagan Counterrevolution
In 1980, when the U.S. economy was last in serious trouble, Ronald Reagan offered the correct diagnoses that government was the problem and not the solution. His message resonated with…
Hell, Meet Handbasket
Currently, we find ourselves in a mess that many are calling the most serious economic crisis since the Great Depression. If not worse. A mile-high mountain of paper profits has…
Greenspan and the Gold Standard: Thinking Out Loud
I wish some Congressman would have had the courage to ask Greenspan why he abandoned his principles he so eloquently (and correctly) wrote about in 1966 before becoming a government…
Stock Bull Being Born?
With the election of a new President, it was an important week for the financial markets. Whether you were part of the 53% of Americans who voted for Obama or…
Merk Economic Calendar: Week Ahead in U.S. Financial Markets (November 10-14 2008)
The week ahead in financial markets will see a modest quantity of data that will hit the tapes largely on Thursday and Friday. The major market moving events will be…
More Fois Gras, Mr. Goose?
I say, I say, I say - Did you hear about the joke of a central banker...?
Warren Buffett Likes Warrants
The legendary Warren Buffet is doing a great favor for investors by bring the investment term warrants back into the limelight.
Will Fortune Favour The Brave In This Climate?
FORTUNE is said to favour the brave, but is it bold or foolhardy to venture back yet into bombed-out equity and other financial markets? A panel of investment veterans assembled…
The Incredible Growing Government
And now that the governments of America have literally become the economy (and paying themselves handsomely in the process!), there is no way that the government can be allowed to…
Monetary Reform: Gold And Bills Of Exchange
The Great Depression of the 1930's was not due to the 'contractionist propensities' of the gold standard as alleged by John M. Keynes. Nor was it due to fractional reserve…
