"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •516 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 1,671.70 | -13.30 | -0.79% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 59.48 | +0.93 | +1.59% |
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Gasoline •15 mins | 1.871 | +0.050 | +2.73% |
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Ethanol •516 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •516 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 516 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 516 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 63.26 | +0.88 | +1.41% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 4.920 | +0.070 | +1.44% | |
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Heating Oil • 11 mins | 2.345 | +0.042 | +1.81% |
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As the Middle East Peace Talks Hit Deadlock, Talk of Israel Joining the European Union Increases
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824,000 Will Disappear On February 5; BLS Admits Flawed Model But Plans No Changes
On Friday, expect to see the BLS revise job creation estimates down by a whopping 824,000 jobs. The culprit, as I have been harping on for a couple years is…
Unfinished Business: 2009
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Does Anyone in Washington Know What Needs to Be Done to Create Jobs?
... But, by an order of magnitude, independent businesses report that their biggest problem today is poor sales! Can you imagine that?
$1.32 Euro Now Under Construction
We pointed out 2 weeks ago that the ongoing decline (weakening) of the once strong inverse correlation between equities and USD would lead to a scenario of prolonged US strength…
George Soros on Gold - Right or Wrong?
George Soros has been quoted recently as saying gold is in a bubble. Now that's an interesting comment but based upon what?
Senator Corker Should Brush Up On His Bank Failure History Before Challenging Others in a Hearing
Senator Corker challenged Mr. Volcker's stance in today's congressional hearings on the Volker Rule by saying that no financial holding company that had a commercial bank failed while performing proprietary…
Lies We're Being Told: Interest is Consumption, Saving is "a Negative Act"
How did we devolve from an economy based on making real things to one in which "imputed interest" is officially counted as wealth? According to the Future of Freedom Foundation's…
To Risk Or Not To Risk
In many respects the current market environment can be broken down into a very simple construct: to risk or not to risk. To start this week, the risk trade is…
Silver Is Poised to Rise in The Long Run, But The Short-term Situation Is Complicated
Keynesian economics gained dominance after World War II and it was President Richard Nixon who proclaimed in 1971: "We are all Keynesians now." It was about the same time that…
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