by irdadmin | Apr 11, 2023 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
The banking crisis is just starting. The implosion of the fraud-riddled FTX and the counterparty collateral damage that occurred was an early warning sign. But it is a glimpse of the malinvestment, accompanied by fraud and corruption, enabled by the nearly $9 trillion...
by irdadmin | Apr 7, 2023 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
Back in January, John Titus warned that we were in the midst of a banking crisis. And sure enough, just over a month later, the evidence of the crisis emerged with the sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. I invited John back on to my bi-weekly...
by irdadmin | Mar 17, 2023 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals
The Fed and U.S. Treasury have made to decision to back-stop depositors at U.S. banks – a liability that could potentially hit $2 trillion. More interestingly, there must be a considerable amount of counter-party default risk embedded in the banking system...
by irdadmin | Feb 18, 2023 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
I believe the current bear market, which started in early 2022, has at least another year left before it bottoms. Regardless of the time frame, I think the current bear market will take the SPX down to the mid-2000’s (it’s currently at 4,090) and the...
by irdadmin | Feb 16, 2023 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
This video builds on and extends the explosive (but largely overlooked AFAIK) analysis done by Chris Whalen, “Is JPMorgan Chase Insolvent?” While Whalen is imo the best independent bank analyst in the business, he doesn’t have a crystal ball. (At least I couldn’t find...
by irdadmin | Dec 12, 2022 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals
I wrote the following commentary for Kinesis Money. A portion of it was derived from analysis I presented to subscribers of the Mining Stock Journal a couple weeks ago. You can learn more about this newsletter here: MSJ information It’s likely that the next cyclical,...