by irdadmin | Nov 18, 2019 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
A couple days after the CME allowed clearing members to use warehouse warrants as collateral for the mandatory performance bond, the new form of collateral was implemented by HSBC. With help from Craig Hemke (TF Metals Report) it appears as if the Comex activated a...
by irdadmin | Nov 15, 2019 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals
A mysterious “pledged gold” entry has just showed up on the Comex gold warehouse report. The definition of this new warehouse stock classification for gold is provided in Chapter 7 of the New York Mercantile Exchange rulebook. In brief,...
by irdadmin | Nov 1, 2019 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
“By sticking to the new orthodoxy of monetary policy and pretending that we have made the banking system safe, we are sleepwalking towards that crisis.” – Mervyn King, former head of the Bank of England in a lecture at the IMF’s recent annual meeting The...
by irdadmin | Oct 28, 2019 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals
There’s a strong probability that the Fed’s “non-QE” QE operations will morph into a full-blown money printing program that will exceed the one implemented starting in late 2008. The same fundamentals variables that fueled a massive move in the...
by irdadmin | Oct 22, 2019 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
“Like gold, U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes...
by irdadmin | Oct 20, 2019 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
The Fed is printing money again – this time disguised as “repo operations” instead of “QE.” The price of gold and silver rallied over the summer anticipating an easier monetary policy. The economic problems and financial system excesses...
