"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •147 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 933.20 | +1.40 | +0.15% |
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WTI Crude •10 mins | 68.58 | -0.14 | -0.20% |
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Gasoline •2 hours | 1.973 | -0.018 | -0.92% |
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Ethanol •147 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •147 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 147 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 147 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 10 mins | 72.69 | -0.14 | -0.19% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 3.191 | -0.013 | -0.41% | |
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Heating Oil • 5 hours | 2.202 | -0.001 | -0.06% |
Markets / Other
The Emperor Has No Clothes
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Rabbit Hole
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Stocks - Buy the Dips or Sell the Rallies?
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Is the Bear in Long-Term Hibernation?
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Closing Bell
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Is The US Economy Overheating?
Economic growth was widespread according to the third quarter GDP report. Personal consumption was up 6.6%, private investment increased 9.3%, led of course by a 20.4% jump in residential, and…
Purpose of "Gold" - The Weekly Perspective
Perhaps the biggest event the market has seen for a considerable period of time and one we want to focus on in this issue, is the treatment of Gold as…
How Recessions Become Depressions
When the central bank proactively encourages - or retroactively endorses - a credit expansion, the subtle interconnections between supply and demand; investment and saving; consumption and production; and - a…
The China Colossus
China, despite being one of the fastest growing economies in the world over the past decade is still considered an emerging economy. GDP grew by 6.7% in the latest quarter…
Deep in Debt, Caught in a Net
Economists make an important distinction between "productive" and "consumptive" debt. Although the difference may not always be clear and exact and, therefore, may give rise to much controversy, it is…
