"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 •11 hours | 63.55 | +0.26 | +0.41% |
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Gasoline •11 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 • 10 hours | 68.05 | +0.50 | +0.74% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 hours | 3.422 | -0.087 | -2.48% | |
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Heating Oil • 11 hours | 2.413 | +0.020 | +0.84% |
Markets / Other
Inflating a New Bubble?
I have a suspicion that the recent insane market volatility would have caused some sleepless nights throughout the investment world. There can be no doubt that the current year did…
Do Markets Make News or Does News Make Markets?
Everywhere you look the news is bad. Economic numbers are negative, earnings are bad, and rumors of bank failures are everywhere. Investors who have been holding on to gold stocks…
The Collection Agency - Weekly Report
According to Reuters via Bloomberg: "China's government-controlled Citic Securities Co., which agreed in October to pay $1 billion for a 6 percent stake in Bear, is renegotiating to get a…
"Everybody Hurts" - Inflations Theme Song
The apparently salubrious result is that the money is created out of thin air, and nobody has so much as a dime taken away from them, dorkface! In fact, everybody…
Silver Update
The attached silver chart however shows the upward trend is intact and indeed has accelerated to a steeper gradient. So far that trendline is finding support at $17.00 whilst our…
Taiwan is Worth a Look
Even though it's an island of merely 89 miles wide and 245 miles long, Taiwan is the world's 16th largest economy that holds the world's 5th largest foreign reserves.
Finding Religion Is Not Necessarily An Uplifting Experience
Uninformed odds players are calling a bottom on the stock market citing extreme technical and sentiment related readings. It's too bad they are not history students as well, but that…
Favorite "Play of 2008" Alive and Well
While central banks in most industrialized economies are either reducing interest rates or expected to do so thus year, the Reserve Bank of Australia is expected to further raise its…
Why the I.M.F. Believes the 400 tonnes of Gold it wants to Sell is its Own!
There has been a lot of talk of late of potential sales of I.M.F. gold. The more we look at the subject, contrary to our previous view, the more likey…
As Desperation Sinks In, Non-Solutions Proliferate
Everyone is foolishly trying to rescue the economy with a series of misguided proposals each more ridiculous than the previous. Worse yet, some of the proposals are outright fraudulent. What…
