"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •575 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 2,324.30 | -294.00 | -11.23% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 65.01 | -0.41 | -0.63% |
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Gasoline •2 hours | 1.904 | -0.016 | -0.83% |
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Ethanol •575 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •575 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 575 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 575 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 17 mins | 70.40 | -0.31 | -0.44% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 3.851 | -0.067 | -1.71% | |
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Heating Oil • 17 mins | 2.623 | +0.038 | +1.45% |
Markets / Other
Coming of Age -- Graduating From Emerging Status
To date, the outlook for emerging markets is mixed. Stock markets - both in industrialized and developing countries -- have declined sharply. But economic figures continue to come in positively.…
No Bubbles in Riotville
All investors have become contrarians and are now experts in being able to spot bubbles. Hence, they all are fully aware that a bubble exists in agricultural commodities at this…
Heart Attacks and Tax Codes
Already beset by demons of my deteriorating mental and cardiac capacity, the idea that the capital gains tax was already 5% and I hadn't even noticed had me in a…
The Great Deleveraging - Part II
While the "first phase" of the deleveraging is now over, there is no way to tell when the "second phase" will start. Sure, many banks have bulked up their balance…
Worldwide Mutual Fund Assets
he Investment Company Institute reported $26 trillion worldwide mutual fund assets from 26 reporting countries for the year 2007.
Commodity Market Summary
April 16, 2008 Commodity Market Summary
Market Update
Although the S&P may seem to be going to hell in a hand basket, that event is not likely to happen until around June/early July. Lower Bollinger bands are in…
Why Wall St. Needed Credit Default Swaps
This article continues the discussion on the current financial turmoil. This is part of my series "What Caused Home Mortgage Products To Go Out of Control?"
It is 1937 for the Federal Reserve
This Letter is a follow on from my article The Future Actions of The Federal Reserve and US Govt are known in which, using the work of GB Eggertsson, we…
40 Years of Inflation, 80 Years of Dow/Gold
...The infamous Dow/Gold Ratio just touched its long-run historic average. So which way next amid the Fed's inflationary melt-up...?
