Oil, Gold, and Silver Prices Reflect International Coalition Shortcomings in MENA

First and foremost, and as reported by Reuters last night, “Gaddafi ‘accepts peace roadmap’: South Africa’s Zuma,” and I hope this is the real deal. But the writing has been plastered on the wall. Instability has a way to propel oil and precious metals higher, and the current geopolitical landscape is fertile ground for conspiracy theories, apocalyptic dreams, and allodoxaphobia when views are a bit off the beaten track.As a side note, the various spellings of the name Gaddafi is due to a lack of a “universally accepted authority for transliterating Arabic names,” according to the The Christian Science Monitor.