"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •570 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 •570 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •570 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 570 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 570 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% |
Markets / Other
Gold Thoughts
Complete and total intellectual bankruptcy of Federal Reserve was confirmed this past week. Creation and collapse of two financial bubbles in eight years would seem to suggest monetary philosophy of…
Market Not Close to Capitulation Just Yet
As of Sunday evening on August 12th, we are still neutral in our DJIA Timing System. Last week was an exciting week, if you will - as, for the first…
Speculators Take Global Economy Hostage, Central Bankers' Liquidity Concession, With Nothing in Return, Interest Cuts Next? -- Part 1
Most mainstream pundits and mainstream media, as good as its coverage of the unfolding credit crises consistently has been for months, have yet to really emphasize critical potential risks.
Wall Street and Main Street Are Joined at the Hip
Watching Bubblevision and reading the Wall Street Journal I keep hearing that what happens on Wall Street doesn't materially affect Main Street. I respectfully disagree. Main Street is more dependent…
Bernanke Grounded -- for Now
The head of the Federal Reserve has so far not lived up to his moniker of "Helicopter Ben." Unlike what his label suggests, Mr. Bernanke has only addressed the current…
Update of the SP 500 Index
The US is in dire financial straits, but the rest of the globe has their economies doing well, particularly Asia and the Middle East. Financial havoc in the US will…
Short Selling The Road To Redemptions
With the financial markets doing their best impression of a tinderbox waiting for a spark, it is not easy to use the word 'oversold' without cracking a smile. After all,…
Voodoo Bell Curve Curses the Fed
...the Fed is doomed to fail, due not by my hating them so much and my putting a voodoo curse on them all, but on its total reliance on the…
Inflation and the Base Metals
As we see it, inflation (money supply growth) is causing a rolling boom/bust cycle whereby the combination of relative valuation and scarcity determines which sectors will be the major beneficiaries…
High Risk Spending
One thing that has not drawn enough attention is the link between the size of government and the mismanagement that leads to wasted money. If the government was restrained within…
