"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 | 2,212.50 | +108.40 | +5.15% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 63.89 | +1.75 | +2.82% |
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Gasoline •11 mins | 1.914 | +0.063 | +3.38% |
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Ethanol •580 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 | 67.97 | +1.67 | +2.52% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 3.378 | +0.141 | +4.36% | |
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Heating Oil • 11 mins | 2.437 | +0.078 | +3.29% |
Markets / Other
Blogonomics 101: Some of Us New Media Journalists Might Know What Were Doing...
I was chided as a "journalist" who didn't have a clue in a comment from an armchair investor over on Seeking Alpha. That got me to thinking that either the…
Porky the Bailout Bill
Buried in the bailout bill signed into law on Friday was a plethora of tax incentives and increases in government intrusion into our privacy. Following in the spirit of the…
Weapons of Financial Mass Destruction
The latest downward spiral in the global commodity and stock markets, coinciding with several high profile bank failures, is conjuring up fears of the calamities of the Great Depression of…
Gold and the Flood of Cheap Government Money
...If we allow governments to control finance, we give them extraordinary power over which projects are allowed and which are deemed inappropriate...
Congress Charges Commission
Faced with an imminent financial meltdown and a looming depression, one might have expected Congress, inspired with a rush of patriotism, to have stepped vigorously to the plate to pass…
Tune Out the Noise and Get Safe
Congress made official what was probably already in the bag from the beginning in passing the pork filled bail out of those entities that took on outrageous moral hazard at…
Inflation's New Upward Trend
Last week's money creation by the Fed won't appear in broader money-supply data until the end of this week, but the week-before-last's expansion of the Fed's balance sheet has given…
Global Futures Market Summary
Cattle settled limit-down, with October feeder cattle settling 300 points lower at 97.67 cents a pound. Concerns that cash strapped consumers will rotate into cheaper proteins continues to weigh on…
The SP500 and Silver
Note that silver does not do well during the recessionary periods in grey bars. I see no reason for that to change and am actually surprised we haven't entered recession…
Pivotal Events
It is worth reviewing that once a massive credit bubble reaches its gossamer limit and breaks there is no way of preventing the consequent contraction. Indeed, financial history is a…
