"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 •20 hours | 63.55 | +0.26 | +0.41% |
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Gasoline •20 hours | 1.953 | +0.027 | +1.38% |
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Ethanol •584 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 • 19 hours | 68.05 | +0.50 | +0.74% | |
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Natural Gas • 20 hours | 3.422 | -0.087 | -2.48% | |
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Heating Oil • 20 hours | 2.413 | +0.020 | +0.84% |
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Follow the Money... Out of the U.S. Dollar?
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Fed Prepares To Buy Back Several Billions of Dollars of Mortgages
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Everyone is Wrong, Again (Except the gold bulls)
It is, instead, more appropriate to think of gold as a hedge against government stupidity and the negative economic effects of that stupidity, and rarely in history have the governments…
The $33,000,000,000,000 Question
It has long been my contention that we are entering an extraordinary period of time in which using historical analogies to plot market behavior is going to become increasingly problematical.…
Warrants: The Devil is in the Details - A Follow-up
This is the promised follow-up to my earlier article entitled "Warrants: The Devil is in the Detail" regarding the merit of my decision to forego buying a particular warrant at…
Natural Gas Is The Mania De Jour
Just how long it takes for the larger fundamentals to kick in are of course not certain, but the important thing to remember is a SHARP DROP in inventories will…
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