by irdadmin | Dec 28, 2017 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
In Hemingway’s, “The Sun Also Rises,” one of the characters, Bill, asks his friend, “Mike,” how he went bankrupt. Mike replied, “I had a lot of friends. False friends. Then I had creditors…” This passage from the novel...
by irdadmin | Dec 25, 2017 | Financial Markets
When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you–when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that your society is doomed....
by irdadmin | Dec 23, 2017 | Financial Markets, Gold, Precious Metals
Novo is not worth the $544 million market cap based on Friday’s close using fully-diluted shares. Novo might eventually be worth $600 million or even more. But that reality is several years away. I have been recommending selling to my Mining Stock Journal...
by irdadmin | Dec 21, 2017 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals
The simple answer to that question is: who knows, eventually it will. I like to look at the Commitment of Traders report for signals. I think the COT offers better information than looking at charts, although I like to use my COT analysis in conjunction with charts....
by irdadmin | Dec 19, 2017 | Financial Markets
The current tax legislation isn’t some thoughtful reform to benefit Americans. It’s a quickly planned looting through a broken window in our nation’s character. – John Hussman John Hussman wrote a must-read essay titled: “Three Delusions: Paper Wealth, A...
by irdadmin | Dec 18, 2017 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals
A guest post by Stewart Dougherty IRD’s Note: In the past year, there has been a noticeably substantial increase in the use of the obscurely defined EFPs (Exchange for Physicals) and PNTs (Privately Negotiated Transactions) in the settlement of Comex gold and...