"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •515 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 1,716.60 | +31.60 | +1.88% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 59.56 | +1.01 | +1.73% |
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Gasoline •11 mins | 1.860 | +0.039 | +2.12% |
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Ethanol •515 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •515 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 515 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 515 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 63.39 | +1.01 | +1.62% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 4.765 | -0.085 | -1.75% | |
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Heating Oil • 11 mins | 2.361 | +0.057 | +2.49% |
Markets
Words from the (Investment) Wise for the Week That Was (January 4-10, 2010)
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Is the Stock Market Rigged?
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The Utica - An Emerging Canadian Shale Gas Play
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This Correlation Still Exists
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2010 Forecast: The Year of Uncertainty
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Technical Market Report
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Market Holds Well...Earnings On Tap....
The market had every excuse on planet earth today to just fall out of bed. A very bad jobless report hit the street when there was a loss of 85,000…
Gold Moved Higher, But Is This Move Really The Beginning of a New Upleg?
The decade just ended was one in which the U.S. endured two market crashes, one at each end of the decade, the terrorist attacks of 9/11, a war in Afghanistan…
Financial Lessons of the Ages
While Americans pride themselves on being well informed, the vast majority do not understand the history of money and banking and the close relationship that these have had with U.S.…
Economic Aspects of the Pension Problem: Part II
One may get the impression from reading Mises that an increase in marginal productivity is always beneficial to society -- as indeed it would have been under the conditions he…
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