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		<title><![CDATA[Inflation Scorecard: Gold Drives Expectations]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard Assets Investor submits:  By Brad Zigler  Real-time Monetary Inflation (last 12 months): 5.0% Gold scored a royal flush this week, finally notching all-time highs in every reserve currency. The Japanese yen succumbed on Thursday to complete the run, joining the ranks populated by the U.S. dollar, the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:50:51 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[More Oil, More Everything On Hand]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard Assets Investor submits:  By Brad Zigler   Real-time Monetary Inflation (last 12 months): 4.7% You can have too much of a good thing. Take oil, for example. And gasoline. And heating oil. This week's inventory report shows we've still got above-average levels of all three on hand....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:09:30 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Silver Topping Out?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard Assets Investor submits:  By Brad Zigler Traders are a worrisome sort. Their latest headache is silver. Money managers, on the other hand, love the metal. More than 98 percent of the open silver positions held by funds are now long. That's a record going back more than three...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:28:12 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gold Makes a Near Clean Sweep]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard Assets Investor submits:  By Brad Zigler You'd have to be Rip Van Winkle to have missed the news of the fresh highs scored by gold recently. And just as Van Winkle is quintessentially American, for a long time, so too were gold's price records; gold measured in dollars...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:56:02 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Fundamentals of Oil Shocks]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard Assets Investor submits:  Speculators take most of the heat for the recent oil spike, but were they really to blame for last year's high prices? Probably not, says Dr. James Hamilton, who argues that supply and demand, not speculators, were behind oil's 2008 rise.  A professor of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:22:30 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Is the Other Oil Shoe Dropping?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard Assets Investor submits:  By Brad Zigler  Real-time Monetary Inflation (last 12 months): 4.7% Tuesday's Desktop column ("Red Flag: Oil's Faltering") ended with a puzzle. Would today's oil inventory numbers signal an end to oil's attempt at another leg up? by Hard Assets Investor]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:32:20 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Red Flag: Oil's Faltering]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard Assets Investor submits:  By Brad Zigler Investors often complain about being blindsided by sudden shifts in market momentum. Well, investors, take a gander at the crude oil futures chart and see if you can see a big red momentum flag. by Hard Assets Investor]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:55:43 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Under the Surface: Oil Mart's Shifting]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard Assets Investor submits:  By Brad Zigler You'll likely hear a lot of talk about gold this morning. Fresh highs were scored by the yellow metal as tensions rose over Iranian war games. by Hard Assets Investor]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:19:37 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Inflation Scorecard: Prices Bottoming]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard Assets Investor submits:  By Brad Zigler  Real-time Monetary Inflation (last 12 months): 4.6% Data published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics this week shows U.S. inflation continuing to bottom. Year-over-year, the Consumer Price Index slipped 0.2% in October, its shallowest decline since March. Wholesale prices for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:26:32 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cadmium: Spent Energy?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard Assets Investor submits:  By Tom Vulcan Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is warm and lively like wine. The same goes for emerald green too. It's false economy to dispense...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:42:45 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gold's Uptrend Is Driven by Leverage]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard Assets Investor submits:  With gold now trading above $1,100/oz, many investors are starting to wonder if the fundamentals really support the yellow metal's seemingly unstoppable upward rise. But it's not just a weak dollar and inflation fears driving gold upward, says precious metals expert Adrian Ash; it also...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:39:55 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Where's Silver Going?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard Assets Investor submits:  By Brad Zigler Real-time Monetary Inflation (last 12 months): 4.7% Gold's race into new high territory and has left silver lagging far behind, much to the chagrin of investors anxious for some moderation in the gold/silver ratio. by Hard Assets Investor]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:56:47 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Can Gold Supplant Commodities in Your Portfolio?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard Assets Investor submits:  By Brad Zigler There was a time not so long ago when allocating investment capital was a pretty simple affair. Financial advisers used to recommend a basic "60/40" portfolio: 60 percent in equities and 40 percent in fixed-income securities. Investors might tweak their portfolios around...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:49:38 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Value of Gold Advice]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard Assets Investor submits:  By Brad Zigler I got chided Thursday morning. There's nothing new in that. I get my chops busted regularly. But Thursday morning's rip was more intriguing than most. by Hard Assets Investor]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:17:47 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mother Nature (Not Speculators) Changes the Agriculture Game]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard Assets Investor submits:  So far in 2009, the agriculture markets haven't witnessed the same sharp rebound as other commodities have; in fact, compared to oil or copper, humble ags seem downright sensible. And there's still plenty of room for upside, says Shonda Warner, founder of Chess Capital Partners&#8212;that...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:21:23 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Peter Schiff: The Government Chose Wrong]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard Assets Investor submits:  At last week's "Inside Commodities" conference, the conversation returned again and again to one dominant theme: inflation vs. deflation. Some, like Nouriel Roubini, predicted the U.S. is set for a deflationary crash. But other speakers forecasted runaway inflation&#8212;including Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:37:32 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Oil Market Dithers as Funds Buy]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard Assets Investor submits:  By Brad Zigler The U.S. Energy Department usually releases its weekly petroleum inventory report on Wednesday, but since it's Veterans Day, we won't see those numbers &#8216;til tomorrow. by Hard Assets Investor]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:22:42 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Petroleum Inventories: Everything Was Drawn Down]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard Assets Investor submits:  By Brad Zigler Real-time Monetary Inflation (last 12 months): 4.0% Crude oil futures climbed further in overnight trading after rising nearly 2 percent in the Tuesday NYMEX floor session. Buoyed by outside influences, oil prices were also driven by the release of bullish industry data....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:28:22 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gold Is Not in a Bull Market]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard Assets Investor submits:  Recently, gold appears to have entered The Mother of All Bull Markets. Even though gold has backed off of its $1,072/oz record from two weeks ago, as of Thursday's close, the market was still up 18 percent for the year and climbing. Interest in the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:57:45 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Inflation Scorecard: A Respite]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard Assets Investor submits:  By Brad Zigler Real-time Monetary Inflation (last 12 months): 4.2% This week, gold and oil cycled lower. Gold essentially ran out of buyers, while the oil market is still working off overhanging supply. These developments, among other factors, backed off inflationary pressures. by Hard Assets...]]></description>
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