"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •146 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 938.80 | +8.90 | +0.96% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 69.10 | +0.33 | +0.48% |
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Gasoline •16 mins | 1.992 | +0.001 | +0.03% |
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Ethanol •146 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •146 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 146 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 146 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 73.17 | +0.36 | +0.49% | |
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Natural Gas • 10 mins | 3.354 | -0.113 | -3.26% | |
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Heating Oil • 14 mins | 2.238 | -0.002 | -0.09% |
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Gold Standards, the State, and Free Banking
The sound money principle does not mean the unattainable idea of stable money. It simply means the market decides on what money is, and what its worth. In this way,…
This Week's Bond Trading Fix...
A good number of bond market participants still believe that the Fed will be out of the market well into the second half of 2004, thereby ensuring monetary accommodation and…
The Coppock Curve Buy Signals of 4/28/78 & 5/30/03 in Phase Space
Incidentally, any deep Monthly DJIA Coppock Curve buy signal is entirely a complex function of the Monthly DJIA over many months through the date of that signal. Some similarity in…
Shades of '87
Back then the collapse in commodity prices - partly brought about by the Saudis trying to discipline Venezuela - was accompanied by a deliberate policy to topple the Reagan SuperDollar…
An Elliott Perspective on the S&P Index
The trigger for the downside break has been the bond movement. Increasing rates may suggest a shortage of money. A great deal of liquidity has come from assets re-evaluation in…
Sick Sigma
Anyone with a modicum of financial savvy is watching the bond market. Those with an Austrian perspective, or just plain common sense, are aghast and are using their most eloquent…
'Its Dishonour, Sir!'
The hardest thing about analyzing one of Cranky-Bernankes headline-grabbing (and increasingly Greenspan-upstaging) speeches, is knowing where to start when dissecting out the tangled web of ill-formed logic and how many…
Runaway Trains
Let's face it, it's simply not often that we experience a sell off in the Treasury market as we have over the past six weeks. This is clearly as significant…
Lost Control
A great deal has transpired since those dark days last October when Team Greenspan/Bernanke too successfully reversed an unfolding Credit crisis. In the above analogy, the river level only "grows…
The Velocity of Money
To understand why the global economy may be at a historic, even unique, juncture; we need to examine how things worked through most of history. Please also note that we…
