by irdadmin | Apr 5, 2021 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
The downtrend in the precious metals sector that began in August has been punctuated with one of the most aggressive, blatant price manipulation efforts over the last month that I have witnessed in 20 years. While no one can prove it without access to the inside books...
by irdadmin | Mar 16, 2021 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
It makes no sense that shortages of physical have developed while the prices of gold and silver have been declining the past few months. But the aggressive price take-down that occurs in the paper markets is an effort by the banks to discourage buyers from investing...
by irdadmin | Mar 30, 2020 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
I found it amusing that Zerohedge tried to take credit for reporting the problem of a physical gold shortage on the LBMA and Comex earlier last week. Several of we “gold bugs” have been discussing and reporting on this issue since before the virus crisis...
by irdadmin | Jul 25, 2019 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals
Currently gold and silver are behaving in a way that I have not seen since late 2008. The gold open interest on the Comex is near a record high (657,776 on July 11, 2016). The Comex banks continue pile into the short side while the hedge funds pile into the long side....
by irdadmin | Jul 8, 2019 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals
Gold tends to perform the best when the real rate of interest (interest rates minus the real inflation rate) is negative. For now, the Central Banks have been able to contain the movement of gold in order to prevent the price from doing what it should be doing when...