"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 •10 hours | 63.55 | +0.26 | +0.41% |
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Gasoline •10 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 • 9 hours | 68.05 | +0.50 | +0.74% | |
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Natural Gas • 10 hours | 3.422 | -0.087 | -2.48% | |
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Heating Oil • 10 hours | 2.413 | +0.020 | +0.84% |
Markets / Other
If Investors Were Smart ...
If traders and investors were smart, they would bid up the price of gold instead of oil. Likewise, if governments and central banks were smart, they would take the lid…
Unstoppable Credit Contraction
I see no explanation of how consumers and businesses are going to pay back debts in a world of declining real wages, wealth concentration at the extreme high end of…
Rationioning -- Food For Thought
Last week, a food shortage became an American reality. Costco Warehouse, Wal-Mart and other food stores limited the purchase of certain food staples in bulk form. Purchases of rice in…
Does the Consumer Truly Believe?
Importantly then, have we seen an increase in inflation expectations in the people and the private sector? April Consumer Confidence as measured by The Conference Board dropped to 62.3 from…
Will the Fed's Rollercoaster Ride Save the Dollar?
Why we Americans ever abdicated our financial freedom to a group of 12 unelected individuals who sit on the Federal Open Market Committee, is beyond me. That being said, we…
Crisis Over, the Old Crisis Returns
...Is the foreign US bond-buyer now going on strike, just when the Treasury needs him to pay for tax rebates, investment bank bail-outs, and the first raft of post-Election housing…
Golden Retreat?
Remember, any easing of Fed rates takes time to filter through the system and we may see a NICE Autumn rally in the metals... At this point in time I…
Set Yahoo Free
Instead of attempting to outdo one another in crying to the government, Google and Microsoft should take a principled stand in favor of open competition for Yahoo! -- a competition…
All Eyes On The Fed
We remain in Buy Mode, looking for the market to reverse at some point and begin to move lower into 5/23. That being said, we have a potential counter fed…
Federal Reserve May Want Inflation
We are now importing inflation. This does not only apply to the cost of commodities, such as oil, but also to consumer goods imported from Asia. This is a newer…
