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Charts: paper vs. things

From the Financial Sense Market Monitor. An intermarket analysis of paper and things. Even some of the paper assets have been kept aloft nicely thanks to...that's right...an infusion of paper (easy money and credit creation that's occured worldwide over the past few years).

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