Oil and gold guesses - two days left

We are off to Yosemite National Park for a few days, so this should leave you plenty of time to ponder your oil and gold price guesses when you would otherwise be pondering the many varied and profound issues that are sometimes raised here at this blog.

Then again, maybe you just come here for the cartoons from The Economist.

Look for something new here in a couple days or so and don't forget that entries for the "Guess the year-end price of oil and gold" contest close Wednesday at midnight PST. Here's how the last contest ended with last week's oil and gold prices shown in the upper right.
Entries may be made in the comments section of this post or via email and the winner gets a free one-year subscription to the investment website Iacono Research. For all other particulars, see last Wednesday's post on this same subject or the original post from two weeks ago.

Note that a final decision has not been made regarding how a winner will be determined. In previous contests a simple summing of the percent differences between the guessed price and the year-end price for both oil and gold was employed, however, some readers have suggested that a more scientific approach be adopted using square roots, quadratic equations, and perhaps differential equations and that funky integration sign.

I'll have to get out my old school books before a final decision can be made.