"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •434 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 1,403.10 | +5.30 | +0.38% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 62.40 | -1.27 | -1.99% |
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Gasoline •11 mins | 1.978 | -0.030 | -1.50% |
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Ethanol •435 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •434 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 434 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 434 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 66.36 | -1.13 | -1.67% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 2.948 | -0.081 | -2.67% | |
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Heating Oil • 11 mins | 2.286 | -0.047 | -2.03% |
Markets / Other
The Greatest Ever Speculative Bubble in Risk
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Bi-Polar Dollar Forecasts - Are You Listening?
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Gold Futures CoT
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Consumers Remain Buoyant
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What's Going on with Gold and the Dollar?
There are many reasons why it is in everyone's interest to keep the Dollar from declining in a straight line. The Europeans are only weeks away from voting on an…
Do Security Concerns Influence Asian Central Bank Holdings?
International currency markets remain on edge, worried about the future trajectory of the U.S. dollar and its impact on other major currencies and economies. This concern is compounded by apprehension…
Gold - The Weekly Global Perspective
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How to End the Income Tax and the IRS
Imagine for a moment America without an income tax. No more tedious record keeping of all our expenses. No more April 15th deadlines. No more insufferable complexity and exasperating forms.…
The Global Financial Stability Report
Before I begin this commentary, I would just like to say this: the market is oversold. Okay, so what? Well, the one-day NYSE ARMS Index hit 1.89 today (I am…
Case Study On Costs Of Hitching Your Wagon To A Dollar "Star" - Malaysia
After the Asian economic implosion of 1997, Malaysia decided, among other things, to peg its currency to the greenback at a rate of 3.8 ringgits per U.S. dollar. Although this…
