"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 •10 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% |
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The Most Vulnerable Sectors
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Gold Thoughts
Global investors took one look at unraveling of U.S. debt delusion, and took their toys home. The U.S. dollar plummeted to new lows versus most major national monies. That selling…
If Leveraged Buybacks, Why Not Leveraged Dividends?
The equity investing community seems to get giddy when it hears the words "stock buyback." And why not if the stock is being bought back out of current profits? But…
Wealth Effect or Borrowing/Asset Sales Effect
In the question-and-answer session following his semiannual monetary policy report to Congress last week, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke pooh-poohed the notion that mortgage equity withdrawal (MEW) had played much of…
TedBits
Ever since today's currencies were torn from their gold and silver underpinnings you knew one thing at the beginning of each year. "You have to make 3% a year just…
Composition of the U.S. Money Supply
How much U.S. money is in circulation? Printed currency and coins amount to less than US$800 billion. This represents only a small portion of the total money supply. The following…
Gold: What's Next?
The nagging reality that gold's bull market is 6 ½ years old has caused many to think that gold should have a decent correction this year.
Gold: Insurance or Risk Asset?
...Could the trend of gold up, everything else up, have just reached its end...?
The Next Great Inflation Hedge
The best way to protect your wealth from the ravages of inflation is to invest in a tangible asset whose supply cannot be increased at the same rate as the…
The Unholy Trinity
The structure of today's credit markets is interesting. On top is the establishment's convictions that the Fed can infallibly set the right level of interest rates that will "keep the…
