"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •366 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 1,407.10 | +25.00 | +1.81% |
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WTI Crude •8 hours | 66.50 | -0.50 | -0.75% |
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Gasoline •8 hours | 2.117 | -0.002 | -0.07% |
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Ethanol •366 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •366 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 366 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 366 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 7 hours | 68.30 | -0.50 | -0.73% | |
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Natural Gas • 8 hours | 3.387 | -0.022 | -0.65% | |
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Heating Oil • 8 hours | 2.409 | +0.039 | +1.65% |
Markets
Pound Pilfering Pirates
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Energy Manias
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The State of The Fed
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A Tale from Weimar Germany
Most readers will be familiar with the great hyperinflation of Weimar Germany. Indeed, it is often held up as the icon of what can go drastically wrong when government throws…
Will the Real Driver Please Stand Up: Keynes is Dead, Long Live Keynes
The driver at the forefront of this thing is the global monetary explosion and investors are only beginning to know it. The initial reaction of the gold market to news…
The Fable of the CEO, the Short Seller, and the Chairman
As former Enron executive Ken Lay has recently taken the stand in his defense, we are reminded yet again of how this story of greed and deceit serves as a…
E-Economic Newsletter
And if you want to see the advantage of gold in real-life action, then listen to this ... it was possible to purchase an entire city block of prime commercial…
The Next Big Trend and the "Double Merit" Scenario
As for specific trends in the markets that may not be obvious to the macro investor, this author would like to begin by discussing the S-curve - a logistic function…
Charts and Commentary
In spite of the market moving down, the Indexes are still holding some important support levels as we will see today.
Is Supply-side Economics Driving the US Economy?
Supply-side economics can be summed up as just another term for Say's law of markets. Economists have been taught that Keynes exposed the fallaciousness of this law. He did nothing…
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