"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •571 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •14 mins | 2,741.30 | +164.40 | +6.38% |
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WTI Crude •1 day | 61.07 | +1.71 | +2.88% |
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Gasoline •1 day | 1.851 | +0.034 | +1.86% |
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Ethanol •571 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •571 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 571 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 571 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 1 day | 65.88 | +1.82 | +2.84% | |
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Natural Gas • 1 day | 5.275 | +0.230 | +4.56% | |
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Heating Oil • 1 day | 2.429 | +0.062 | +2.61% |
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On Oil and Natural Gas
In many previous articles, I have talked about the negative consequences of Federal Reserve policy and the seemingly imminent threat of inflation. In this article, I'd like to talk about…
TedBits
Risk is being re-priced, and it is an opportunity of gargantuan proportions as they will do so with a BANG! Are the sails of your investments set to catch the…
The Money Has to Come From Somewhere
The Fed does not act in a vacuum. Mr. Greenspan rightly criticizes Congress and the administration for abandoning principles of fiscal responsibility. However, monetary policy at the Fed did nothing…
Investment Flash: Hyper-Bearish
What we think of as 'money' has been tremendously expanded by the use of debt. Now that fear has entered the credit market, money has become scarce putting pressure on…
The Paper Game
The public needed to see horrible employment numbers to justify a rate cut at the upcoming Fed meeting, and right on cue, that's exactly what happened. I bring this issue…
Fed Projects a Four Year Long Recession
What Bernanke believes is that the Fed should have cut rates all at once during the start of the bear market instead of gradually over two years. He seems to…
Stock Quotes Surge on Prime Interest Rate Cuts
We find ourselves asking if this is the beginning of a larger trend or yet another 1-day wonder in what has been 2-months of unbelievable volatility. The fact that commodities…
How the Laffer Curve Really Works
Let us begin with the much neglected Kennedy tax cuts and then follow through with other tax measures. We shall then finish with a diagrammatic explanation of how cuts in…
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Staying with the trend can be profitable but is it time for the trend to end?
