"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •639 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 1,983.20 | -6.50 | -0.33% |
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WTI Crude •1 day | 111.54 | +11.42 | +11.41% |
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Gasoline •1 day | 3.288 | +0.197 | +6.36% |
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Ethanol •639 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •639 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 639 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 639 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 1 day | 109.03 | +7.87 | +7.78% | |
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Natural Gas • 1 day | 2.800 | -0.019 | -0.67% | |
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Heating Oil • 1 day | 4.361 | +0.304 | +7.50% |
Markets / Other
Ingesting the Polluted Ocean of Commerce
Now get this: Total reserves are $43 billion (about the same as it has been for more than a decade!), and out of that total, $17 billion of it is…
Tail Wagging the Dog
The Federal Reserve, a private banking institution authorized by Congress to loan money created from nothing and charge interest for doing so, is already a powerful, rouge institution that operates…
The Great Deleveraging
Given the lengths that the Federal Reserve has gone to "back stop" our financial system, and given its series of rate cuts since January 22nd, the old adage "Don't fight…
Silver versus Gold, with Silver Updates
In today's world, where paper money far out-supplies of any metal at current prices, fundamental physical supply and demand of the metal itself is really irrelevant. Simply put, people will…
Gold: The Nationalization of Wall Street
The credit market simply lacks credit. The subprime woes have spilled over into dislocations in the overall credit markets - from municipal debt, to corporate debt, to derivatives. Fears of…
Can This Rally Last?
With a counter-party involvement in a significant amount of the $43 trillion derivatives market, the collapse of Bear Stearns would have been the financial equivalent of an atom bomb. Its…
No Tears for Gold
So, the word on the street -- both Wall Street and Main Street -- is that the rally is over for gold and other hard assets. It's time to look…
The Bell Curve of Doom? - The Case-Shiller Home Price Index
According to the Case-Shiller Composite 20 (metro areas) index, the price of an existing home peaked in July 2006. From the July 2006 peak through January 2008, the price of…
Technicals and Fundamentals Remain Weak
While there is no question stocks are trying to form what market technicians call a double bottom, not much has really changed in recent weeks in terms of market leadership.…
Doug Casey: "Gold is Going to the Moon"
As part of our survey of expectations for gold in 2008, one of our BIG GOLD editors interviewed famous contrarian investor and Casey Research Chairman Doug Casey. Here's his take…
