"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •143 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 975.10 | +4.60 | +0.47% |
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WTI Crude •1 day | 71.24 | +1.14 | +1.63% |
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Gasoline •1 day | 2.061 | +0.002 | +0.10% |
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Ethanol •143 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •143 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 143 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 143 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 1 day | 75.17 | +0.94 | +1.27% | |
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Natural Gas • 1 day | 3.129 | -0.210 | -6.29% | |
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Heating Oil • 1 day | 2.275 | +0.001 | +0.02% |
Markets / Other
Golden Opportunity
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Please Understand This Time It Is Truly Different
Never before have all the world's economies been so inter-connected - buying, selling, and loaning to each other. Merchandise, food, fresh fruit is jetted around the world, around the clock.…
The Currency of Last Resort: Money? and Kondratieff Cycle Timing
Last week's failure of the Superior Bank in Chicago, (the first of several we believe), after the 20% drop in the S. & P., the 60% drop in the NASDAQ,…
Measuring Financial Time: The Magic of Pi
In a recent book Stock Cycles (Writers Club Press, iUniverse.com, 2000) Michael Alexander does an admirable job debunking the notion that the "the best time to buy stocks is always…
Asset Bubbles, Market Crashes And The Dilemmas For Policy Makers
Financial history is littered with periods wherein a population took a collective leave of its senses and indulged in delusions of ever-expanding wealth. More often than not, the speculation has…
Is The Future One Of Deflation Or Inflation?
An obscure philosophical argument about whether the present economic downturn is qualitatively different than others since WWII revolves around the issue of whether the advanced economies face a deflationary future…
China's Emerging Political and Economic Role within Asia
As China experiences a generational change in leadership and its economy adapts to the realities of WTO membership, this is a most appropriate time to be re-examining its future, the…
The Imminent And Welcome Death Of The Euroland's Stability And Growth Pact
As if to prove the old saw that if you gave typewriters to an infinite number of monkeys sooner or later one would come up with the works of Shakespeare,…
The View From The IMF-World Bank Meetings: We're All Stuffed!
This year's IMF/World Bank meetings were different in organisation and scale from previous years. They were truncated to the weekend to minimise the disruption and cost to Washington DC which…
Slowly Beat The Drums Of August
Tradition dictates that nothing much happens in August - at least on the surface. The ministers of state in the chancelleries of Europe were supposed to take a break from…
