by irdadmin | Mar 10, 2019 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals
Barrick Gold’s hostile takeover offer for Newmont Mining likely signals “peak gold.” Barrick claims the shareholders would benefit from over US$7 billion in NPV of “real synergies.” These “synergies” would primarily be derived...
by irdadmin | Mar 7, 2019 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Someone last week suggested that Trump sees the stock market as the barometer measuring the success of his Presidency. I think his behavior, tweets, press comments, etc with respect to the stock market validates that assertion. The Dow trended lower all week last...
by irdadmin | Mar 5, 2019 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
The best I can figure is that some very liberal, trust-fund Phd Sociologist professors at Bennington hooked with a group of radical Public Policy students from Harvard somewhere in a cabin in Vermont and did a group analysis of John Maynard Keynes’ “The...
by irdadmin | Mar 3, 2019 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals
“The monetary authorities running the paper-money schemes of the present are anxious to forestall significant rises in the paper price of gold, because such rises would diminish confidence in the lasting value of the paper money in use today.” – Hugo...
by irdadmin | Mar 1, 2019 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Elon Musk a has long track record of being long on promises and short on deliveries – literally and figuratively. His motive, as has been self-professed repeatedly on Twitter, is to torment short-sellers by driving the stock higher with fraudulent tweets. But...
by irdadmin | Feb 26, 2019 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
I don’t know if it was the intent of the Fed, but Jerome Powell has managed to trigger a rush into stocks more frenzied than the one that engulfed the last days of the dot.com/techbubble. The vertical ascent since Christmas in the Dow/SPX is unprecedented on a...
