"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •447 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 1,479.40 | -26.70 | -1.77% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 64.67 | +1.26 | +1.99% |
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Gasoline •13 mins | 2.013 | +0.014 | +0.71% |
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Ethanol •447 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •447 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 447 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 447 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 68.90 | +1.27 | +1.88% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 2.873 | +0.020 | +0.70% | |
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Heating Oil • 12 mins | 2.357 | +0.029 | +1.24% |
Markets / Other
When Atlas Shrugged... - Part Two: Gibson's Paradox and the gold price
In this concluding part of my two-part series I suggest that the year 2006 has decisively changed the nature of gold speculation. Speculators no longer take the bait of riskless…
Charts and Commentary
Did the Dow Jones Industrials REALLY make a new high? You have to wonder if some kind of virus wiped out "common sense" in the markets.
Do You See, What I See?? (A Bottom)
Do you see, what I see? Sounds like a great song we all remember, but for me it 'could be' the first signs of a bottoming process in the precious…
IRA and Retirement Planning Mistakes: Don't Fall Victim to Bad IRA and Retirement Plan Advice
I have seen financial planners without an adequate background in IRAs and retirement plans, acting without advice from counsel or even advice from other experts in the financial planning area,…
A Discrepancy in Jobs?
Answers to the above questions would likely show the Fed has no business setting rates at all. The Fed is forever in a pointless tail chasing exercise that causes them…
Fundamental Trader Alert
We are going to enter two short trades...
E-Economic Newsletter
Not surprisingly, then, I also note that foreign central banks put a whopping $13 billion into their accumulated Fed holdings of US securities last week. $13 billion! In one week!…
Golden Headaches and Fun
Golden headaches inducing moves, at least for the nervous types; here is probably the best way to describe what is happening right now in the gold market. We would like…
Base Metals and Manipulation Theories
December copper futures dropped to test support at 320 last week and then reversed upward, thus prolonging the consolidation that began in May. The copper chart doesn't look particularly bullish…
The Australian Economy, The Trade Deficit and the Lessons of Gold
There seems to be two schools of thought about the current direction of the Australian economy. On the one hand we have Terry McCrann of the Herald Sun whose approach…
