"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •317 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 989.40 | -6.00 | -0.60% |
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WTI Crude •10 mins | 62.49 | +0.87 | +1.41% |
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Gasoline •10 mins | 2.143 | +0.008 | +0.39% |
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Ethanol •317 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •317 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 317 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 317 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 10 mins | 65.38 | +0.85 | +1.32% | |
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Natural Gas • 10 mins | 3.338 | -0.024 | -0.71% | |
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Heating Oil • 10 mins | 2.143 | -0.023 | -1.07% |
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Charts and Commentary
I offer today's chart as "food for thought" and introspection this weekend about the stock market. Below is a 5 year chart that focuses on the divergences that occurred between…
Inflation Targeting - Is Bernanke Really An Expert On The Great Depression?
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Another Industrial Revolution
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Biting the Hand that Feeds You
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The Global Monetary System, Gold & Oil -1971 until the future: Part 2
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Gentle Ben?
The first quarter will come to a close on Friday. Analysts are expecting earnings to increase 11.3%. The biggest revision has been in the consumer discretionary sector. Earnings growth estimates…
Honest Money: What It Is and What It Isn't - Part III
Money is the standard of value that according to the consensus of society is most likely to continue to exchange in the future, at the present ratio or value. In…
Moneyization Part Twenty-two
Money serves many roles in our lives. One of those roles is to subjugate us to the control of the government which issues the money. We are bound to our…
Gold: There's No Free Lunch
Over a quarter of the US trade deficit is due to the bilateral deficit with China. America has imported $240 billion of goods from China but only exported $40 billion…
German Ifo and Euro-zone M3 Boost Odds of May ECB Rate Hike
Key data releases this morning have the markets upping their bets on the European Central Bank hiking interest rates on May 4, rather than waiting until June 8 - and…
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