"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •95 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 1,003.70 | +2.00 | +0.20% |
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WTI Crude •10 mins | 73.99 | -0.39 | -0.52% |
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Gasoline •10 mins | 2.082 | -0.014 | -0.67% |
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Ethanol •95 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •95 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 95 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 95 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 10 mins | 77.58 | -0.47 | -0.60% | |
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Natural Gas • 10 mins | 2.800 | -0.054 | -1.89% | |
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Heating Oil • 10 mins | 2.311 | -0.002 | -0.08% |
Markets / Other
Central Planners Versus Contrarian Logic
Since the Great Recession, anyone following financial history and markets knows that this period of intervention and debt has surpassed everything seen in history prior to the events of 2007-2009.…
Ron Paul: What Do The Swiss Know That We Don't?
Claudio Grass, Managing Director of Global Gold in Switzerland, was invited to the Liberty Report from Dr. Ron Paul. This article higlights the discussion between both men, which was centered…
Podcast: Easy Money From China, Japan and Europe Has Failed. What's Next?
China's most recent borrowing binge didn't work, while Japanese and European negative interest rates sent their currencies up rather than down. The result: Global growth is slowing and governments are…
New Zealand Dollar Outlook in Q2 2016
In the last Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) in March, Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) is not happy with the currency's continued appreciation. They cited the New Zealand Dollar trade-weighted…
Stock Trading Alert: Stocks Extended Their Short-Term Downtrend But Will They Continue Lower?
Our intraday outlook is neutral, and our short-term outlook is neutral. Our medium-term outlook remains bearish, as the SP500 index extends its lower highs, lower lows sequence ...
'Gold is Superior Asset in Present Part of Cycle' Steen Jakobsen
Saxo Bank CIO and chief economist Steen Jakobsen pinged me via email with some of his thoughts on who to believe and which assets to hold.
Dow Bull Not Ready to Crash Yet
Okay, okay, we have heard it before; this market should crash, everything is fake, etc. We are as we have spoken many times over the past two years in a…
Make America Great Again
Donald Trump's critics have heaped scorn on his calls for protective tariffs to deal with America's widening trade imbalance and the resulting loss of higher-paying blue color jobs. Some have…
A Broken Clock That is Persistently Wrong
Durable goods orders, ex-transportation, showed a negative print today for the second time in a row. This was expected, in most senses of the word, but while I don't put…
QE Sponsored Stagnation: Productivity Declines Again As Unit Labor Costs Rise 4.1%
Productivity is down 1% in the first quarter of 2016 following a revised 1.7% decline last quarter. This is the fourth productivity decline in the last six quarters.
