"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •198 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 965.50 | +17.10 | +1.80% |
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WTI Crude •6 hours | 77.88 | -0.80 | -1.02% |
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Gasoline •6 hours | 2.112 | -0.011 | -0.52% |
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Ethanol •198 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •198 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 198 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 198 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 5 hours | 80.79 | -0.50 | -0.62% | |
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Natural Gas • 6 hours | 3.948 | -0.310 | -7.28% | |
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Heating Oil • 6 hours | 2.621 | +0.004 | +0.15% |
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The Super Trend Puzzle
There are two types of major economic puzzle pieces. The first are those pieces which represent trends which are inexorable: they will not themselves change, or if they do it…
Ruse: "A crafty stratagem; a subterfuge"
It is the increasingly precarious dynamics of sustaining ballooning U.S. Bubbles, worsening economic maladjustments, and out-of-control financial markets that remain the focal point for our analysis. As such, we must…
Monthly DJIA Update: 5/30/03 & 4/28/78
Last year I reported that the Monthly DJIA time paths preceding the 8 deep Monthly DJIA Coppock Curve buy signal dates since 1950 pair off into 4 patterns. Given that…
Corrupted Thinking in a Money Culture
But in America's new money culture, policymakers and economists make no difference between wealth created through saving and investment in the real economy and wealth created in the markets through…
Real Rates and Gold 6
Over time, these negative real returns decimate the savers and investors in the capital markets. Debtors, like parasites or vampires, gradually suck the life out of savers as they are…
Gold Sector Update
However, we haven't yet seen the level of speculation amongst the exploration/development-stage juniors that we would expect to see near an important peak (many of the juniors are still under-valued).…
The Silly Season
It is the silly season and the mutual fund sales pitches are beckoning. With the monstrous rise in the markets over the past year investors would be better suited to…
Gold - The Weekly Global Perspective
And for those who still think of gold simply as a commodity, these conditions must be impossible to handle. After all, what part of the gold market is the commodity…
Dropping "Considerable"
In September, the Fed shifted its focus to the labor markets from lackluster economic growth as the primary reason to keep its accommodative policy. At that time it described the…
Deflation Has Arrived
The dichotomy between what is happening and what people think will happen is colossal. Inflation is dead. Deflation is here, now. The monetary trend is no longer close to the…
