"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •574 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 2,631.20 | +93.90 | +3.70% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 62.74 | +0.35 | +0.56% |
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Gasoline •11 mins | 1.879 | +0.014 | +0.76% |
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Ethanol •574 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •574 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 574 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 574 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 12 mins | 67.83 | +0.26 | +0.38% | |
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Natural Gas • 12 mins | 6.669 | -0.285 | -4.10% | |
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Heating Oil • 11 mins | 2.667 | +0.021 | +0.78% |
Markets / Other
The Coming Collapse of International Credit Ratings
The problem, the challenge, the scandal, is not that the bond insurers are about to be downgraded. The real scandal lies in the fact that they haven't been downgraded a…
What Caused Home Mortgage Market Out of Control?
In the subprime area, it could not be worse. Without getting into the fraud lending practice, there was almost no subprime 10 years ago, so there is little historical data…
Golden Prices from Decreased Production
Ergo, the price of gold must equilibrate lower supply versus higher demand at a higher price! To those who own gold, or plan to own gold before things get kicked…
Agri-Food Thoughts
Financial engineering has now demonstrated that the destruction of investment wealth can be accomplished for faster and more efficiently using computers. Monoline insurance companies are latest tool in the eradication…
The Help Wanted Index vs. the Recession Question ...
For years, I have followed the government's Help Wanted Ad numbers. The Help Wanted Ads are a precursor as to what will be happening on Employment in the future. As…
Bank of England: Targeting (House-Price) Inflation
...Rising inflation in the cost of living didn't stop the Old Lady cutting interest rates in 2001, 2003 or 2005. Why change now...?
Autogyro Money?
We have had the month of January as a possible low for the initial phase of forced liquidation of suddenly insupportable positions in the stock markets. This was global and…
Should You Be Concerned About the Lack of Leadership in Gold and Commodities?
I'm growing more concerned about gold stocks. Last Friday I got stopped out of my gold stock positions, as reported in WSW Power Investor, and today gold is trading under…
Commodity Conundrum
Inflationary cycles are always manifested towards the end with rises in commodity prices that become equivalent to a black hole where money gravitates. Increasing the supply of money is the…
Automobile Wreckage: It Isnt Just Ford and GM
Contained, they said. No spillover from the financial collapse, they said. The consumer is resilient and will continue spending, they said. Who are "they" you ask? The politicians, bankers, Fed…
