"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •507 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 1,524.20 | +7.00 | +0.46% |
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WTI Crude •23 hours | 58.06 | -0.94 | -1.59% |
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Gasoline •23 hours | 1.883 | -0.035 | -1.82% |
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Ethanol •507 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •507 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 507 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 507 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 22 hours | 62.56 | -0.82 | -1.29% | |
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Natural Gas • 23 hours | 4.580 | +0.106 | +2.37% | |
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Heating Oil • 23 hours | 2.456 | -0.077 | -3.04% |
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Fundamental Portfolio Gives Itself A Makeover
Fundamental is a moderately low-beta, moderately low-turnover trading plan for stocks traded on major U.S. exchanges. It focuses on providing above-market returns over the longer term while keeping a variability…
Technical Market Report
The market is very oversold and likely to rally. I expect the major indices to be higher on Friday January 11 than they were on Friday January 4.
Forecast 2008: Recession and Recovery
As is usual for the forecast issue, we begin by looking at how I did last year. All in all, not bad. I correctly predicted the housing and subprime crisis,…
Big Ben
The US FED is one of the only private institutions on the planet that controls monetary policy of a country by printing money for them and charging interest rates. This…
Issues 2008
I'll cut to the chase somewhat and highlight three of the major themes for what will surely be a tumultuous and historic 2008: An ongoing bust in "Wall Street-backed" finance;…
A Reminder Concerning Popular Housing Indices
The National Association of Realtors released results stating sales actually rose .04% (statistically significant?), but were down 20% from last year with prices down across the board. The Times Online…
A "Head and Shoulders" Top for the Dow Jones Industrials
Let's say the US economy goes into a deeper than expected slide and gets slammed with a nasty recession, S&P 500 profits shrivel up, and banks get hit with hundreds…
Intellectual Hysteria
The title Intellectual Hysteria may seem like a non-sequiter. Regretably it is not, and starting with Thomas Malthus at the end of the 1700s, there have been some outstanding examples…
Mega Move Underway, Stay With It
As we enter 2008, gold is hitting a new record high. That's a great way to kick off the new year and it looks like there's a lot more to…
Real Estate Deflation 12: Beware the Falling Knife!
It wasn't long ago my columns on real estate deflation brought their share of "You're an idiot!" emails. Funny, but I miss those blind-faith, "Rising-real estate-values-are-our-birthright!" scoldings. They always translated…
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