"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •170 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 936.40 | +12.90 | +1.40% |
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WTI Crude •18 hours | 69.46 | +0.08 | +0.12% |
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Gasoline •18 hours | 1.942 | +0.019 | +0.98% |
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Ethanol •170 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •170 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 170 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 170 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 17 hours | 72.94 | +0.06 | +0.08% | |
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Natural Gas • 18 hours | 3.748 | +0.164 | +4.58% | |
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Heating Oil • 18 hours | 2.232 | -0.006 | -0.27% |
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The Facade of a Sound and Stable Prosperity
What a week. And for anyone that is tempted to downplay the extraordinary nature of the current environment, keep in mind that the President of the United States this afternoon…
Raise the Economy's Speed Limit?
Storm clouds are turning ominously dark as global markets become more unsettled by the week. With fears mounting of a global energy crisis, crude prices surged to 10-year highs and…
Credit Bubble Dynamics
Tumultuous conditions have returned to global financial markets, with increasingly problematic dislocations in currency and energy markets. And, importantly, global stock markets are taking notice. Here at home, it was…
On the Manipulation of Money and Credit
Volatility has returned to the credit market. After rising earlier in the week, 2-year Treasury yields then sank 16 basis points as yields dropped 11 basis points for the week.…
Reinventing Government
Government intrusion into many areas outside its traditional role, and an associated regulatory burden and "red tape." Today we are already seeing commodity prices (oil in particular) rise and the…
The US Dollar: Over Owned and Over Valued
I invest in gold shares for a living. I manage a gold sector mutual fund. Despite this, I do not long for a return to the gold standard or wish…
The Quest for Economic Freedom
All market manipulations are essentially manifestations of the socialist mentality, as the intervention necessarily dictates the misallocation of scarce resources. Thus, so long as governments believe that they must, or…
On the Utility of FedSpeak
The Object of FedSpeak is not Transparency. In 1999 Lawrence Lindsey (an ex-governor of the Federal Reserve Board) published a book called the Economic Puppetmasters, in which he explores the…
The Golden Bull
The difficulty with scheming to deflate a bubble of this order and magnitude is that it will still be impossible to inflate it over again on the next go around.…
Turkeys Can't Fly Far
Sure, but which side is going to shine next year and the year after, the dollar bulls or commodity bulls? Or is it dollar bulls vs. dollar bears, or commodity…
