"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •301 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 966.00 | -3.40 | -0.35% |
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WTI Crude •10 mins | 58.20 | -0.01 | -0.02% |
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Gasoline •8 hours | 2.037 | -0.034 | -1.65% |
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Ethanol •301 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •301 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 301 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 301 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 8 hours | 63.12 | -1.13 | -1.76% | |
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Natural Gas • 10 mins | 3.341 | +0.015 | +0.45% | |
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Heating Oil • 8 hours | 2.037 | -0.084 | -3.95% |
Markets
Silver Charade, Gold Charade
I inadvertently opened a can of worms in writing the essay "Myth of the American Gold Standard" (SafeHaven, November 14, 2005.) I suggested that the reason the dollar has remained…
Gulf Oil and Gas Update -- The Fundamentals
You see, from a fundamental standpoint, the ability of the U.S. Gulf Region to produce oil and gas is quite severely curtailed and typically it is temperatures in the North…
The Dollar and the Current Account
The US runs a large and expanding current account deficit and the consensus view seems to be that a lowering of the dollar's exchange value will be needed to bring…
Misallocation of Resources and Real Money
The widespread acceptance of the consumption gauge has also made our government's objective of presenting the illusion of economic activity an easier task. In duping Americans, by way of bubble…
A Pullback to Where?
The major indexes have risen with barely a down day since the middle of October. For example, the S&P 500 ($SPX) has risen for seven days into November 28th and…
Why M3 No Longer Matters
Why hasn't the Monetary Base figure been of any value in recent years, vis a vis, the 1980s when it was a much more widely followed and authoritative statistic? Is…
Stock Market: CNBC Report
Oil needs a big down day today or tomorrow or this downtrend is going to start to look questionable. The Nikkei is still in an exhaustion mode heading towards the…
Weekly Wrap-up: Year-end Prognosis and Risk Factors
While the trends in most sectors remain positive if modest (e.g., Financials, Industrials, Information Technology, Consumer Discretionary, Telecom Svce), what is of concern is whether the other 9 sectors can…
The Federal Reserve: Fractional Reserve Lending
Is it the fault of the common man that he cannot understand the complexities of a monetary system that moved Lord Keynes to say that not one man in a…
A Review of MarketThoughts
As for the stock market, this author still believes we are currently in a secular bear market - a secular bear market that began in early 2000 and that will…
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