by irdadmin | Apr 10, 2020 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
“You [the public] are the sucker. Your role in the Federal Reserve System is to absorb losses [on the crappy assets the Fed buys off of bank and hedge fund balance sheets]…The Fed is there to facilitate your absorption of those losses and that’s...
by irdadmin | Apr 7, 2020 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
In 35 years of active participation in several diverse aspects of the financial aspects, I’ve never seen a more obvious investment set-up than long gold, silver and mining stocks: Share...
by irdadmin | Apr 5, 2020 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals
“Bad money drives out good money.” When Gresham put forth this proposition, sovereigns were diluting gold and silver coins with metals of lesser value yet the diluted coins were given the same value for legal tender purposes as the more pure coins....
by irdadmin | Apr 3, 2020 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals
Unequivocally, gold does not trade on the Comex. The Comex trades paper gold derivatives. It is a futures and options exchange on which a small amount of 100 oz. gold bars change ownership each contract month. The transfer of title is facilitated by the creation of an...
by irdadmin | Mar 31, 2020 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals
I truly thought I had seen all that was possible in the creation of paper gold when the Comex rolled out its “pledged gold” category which enabled technically insolvent banks like HSBC and JP Morgan – the only two Comex banks to have taken advantage...
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...
