"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •569 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 2,741.30 | +164.40 | +6.38% |
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WTI Crude •18 hours | 61.07 | +1.71 | +2.88% |
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Gasoline •18 hours | 1.851 | +0.034 | +1.86% |
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Ethanol •569 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •569 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 569 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 569 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 17 hours | 65.88 | +1.82 | +2.84% | |
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Natural Gas • 18 hours | 5.275 | +0.230 | +4.56% | |
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Heating Oil • 18 hours | 2.429 | +0.062 | +2.61% |
Markets / Other
The Central (Banking) Importance of Asset Inflation
Over the last several years, central bankers around the world have debated whether they should be fighting asset inflation as well as price inflation. As asset prices have gone up,…
Let the Buyer Beware
In the last several weeks the reason that equity markets have floated higher has started to surface. The parabolic rises that we've been seen in most of our major markets…
Features of the Week
We have some excellent articles and interview features for you this Friday. So sit back, relax, and enjoy our "Features of the Week".
What a Difference a Week Makes!
This week the preponderance of bad economic news on the U.S. economy finally trumped the good news coming from abroad. Perhaps the hardest pill for the market to swallow was…
Base Metals Bears
...the debate about China's growth is already over, underscoring that contention by sharing just a few data points. For instance, there are currently 168 power plants being built in China.…
Gold and USDX
Over the past couple weeks the financial markets have burst free from their usual summer doldrums to provide some welcome excitement. Prices that have long seemed locked in stasis with…
Gold Positive: Iran wants Yen from Japan not the U.S.$ for oil - Who and what next?
At the heart of the global monetary system lies the use of the U.S.$ as the currency used to pay for the globe's oil. Any change in that role has…
Back to Banking Basics
REMEMBER WHEN banks lent money using the cash deposited with them? That's how most people still imagine banking works, even today.
When Is It Time To "Worry" About Our Investments? -- Part 2
In our opinion recent market action in silver and gold appears to be consistent with what we would expect to see this time of year. Therefore keeping the right frame…
Market Update
Today had some of the worst internal readings on record, and cumulatively, the worst I've ever seen. For those of you wondering where the PPT was, let me tell you,…
