by irdadmin | Apr 11, 2023 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
The banking crisis is just starting. The implosion of the fraud-riddled FTX and the counterparty collateral damage that occurred was an early warning sign. But it is a glimpse of the malinvestment, accompanied by fraud and corruption, enabled by the nearly $9 trillion...
by irdadmin | Aug 23, 2021 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Wall Street on Parade has discovered that three of the Fed’s programs used to monetize bad assets on the big Wall Street Bank balance sheets have been removed from the Fed’s monthly reports to Congress. The programs were legacy bailout facilities from the...
by irdadmin | Sep 12, 2017 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
I have to believe that the Fed injected a large amount of liquidity into the financial system on Sunday evening. The 1.08% jump in the S&P 500, given the fundamental backdrop of economic, financial and geopolitical news should be driving the stock market...
by irdadmin | Aug 29, 2017 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
“There are no markets, only interventions” – Chris Powell, Treasurer and Director of GATA To refer to the trading of stocks as a “market” is not only an insult to any dictionary in the world that carries the definition of...
by irdadmin | Aug 18, 2016 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
Central counterparties keep records of trades and help suck risk out of the banking system, but this only works if they themselves are well capitalised and have plans in place to deal with a sudden collapse of one or more of its members and get close to failure....
