Below looks at the Gold/US Dollar ratio on a weekly basis over the past decade. The ratio peaked in 2011 and has created a series of lower highs. The ratio looks to be testing a very important price point, that could be very important to Gold Bulls.
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Authored by Arthur Berman via OilPrice.com,
The lead editorial in Friday’s Wall Street Journal was pure energy nonsense.
“Lessons of the Energy Export Boom” proclaimed that the United States is becoming the oil and gas superpower of the world. This despite the uncomfortable fact that it is also the world’s biggest importer of crude oil.
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