"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •583 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 2,099.40 | +28.80 | +1.39% |
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WTI Crude •12 hours | 63.55 | +0.26 | +0.41% |
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Gasoline •12 hours | 1.953 | +0.027 | +1.38% |
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Ethanol •583 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •583 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 583 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 583 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 hours | 68.05 | +0.50 | +0.74% | |
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Natural Gas • 12 hours | 3.422 | -0.087 | -2.48% | |
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Heating Oil • 12 hours | 2.413 | +0.020 | +0.84% |
Markets
Bank Reserves and Inflation
Bank lending in the US has declined on a year-over-year basis, so we know that the spectacular increase in reserves has not YET contributed to monetary inflation. Many analysts and…
I Thought I Wanted An ETF?
It's official. One of Canada's largest mutual fund families has finally taken a public swipe at ETFs. In a recent article entitled "I thought I wanted an ETF", Mackenzie Investments…
Agri-Food Thoughts
The brilliance of the advice to China by Western experts can be seen in the red line in the chart below which represents the performance of the SP 500. Does…
Pivotal Events
The post-crash rebound bubble could run for around six months and an important change in the credit markets would signal the end of the party. The short-end changed first when…
The Super-Rich Are Spooked
A couple of seemingly unrelated articles in Friday's Wall Street Journal illustrate how life is getting more complicated for the super-rich. First, it seems that the UBS debacle was not…
Long Term Equity Valuation: Replacing the P/E for the DR3
When investors are greedy and require too much real return on equity (more than ten percent), this signals markets are overvalued. It does not mean the markets will collapse right…
Gold and Silver: Where Do We Go From Here?
Asset markets, whether it is stocks, commodities or precious metals have been dominated recently by their inverse relationship with the US dollar. A recent rally by the dollar has allowed…
Government Statistics and Lies
There has been a lot of talk in Washington recently about senior citizens, mostly about how various healthcare reform models would help or hurt them. But there is another critical…
Postponing Providence
That's the game - postponing providence - putting off the inevitable until the next guy's shift. This is the cache of our political economy, as with all other comparables before…
Passed the Test
Gold survived the first test of the $1,030 level and celebrations will be heard from gold bull camps everywhere. Gold bounced up with vigor from this newly formed, and not…
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