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...
by irdadmin | Feb 23, 2019 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Tesla continues to head south since hitting its post-earnings high of $321. It’s down nearly $100 from the $380 post “funding secured” tweet all-time high close on August 7th. The stock has diverged negatively from the SPX since mid-January. By all...
by irdadmin | Feb 14, 2019 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
The retail sales report for December – delayed because of the Government shut-down – was released this morning. It showed the largest monthly drop since September 2009. Online sales plunged 3.9%, the steepest drop since November 2008. Not surprisingly,...
by irdadmin | Feb 12, 2019 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
I get a kick out of these billionaires and centimillionaires, like Kyle Bass yesterday, who appear on financial television to look the viewer in the eye and tell them that economy is booming. Kyle Bass doesn’t expect a mild recession until mid-2020. Hmmm...
by irdadmin | Feb 7, 2019 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
“Our advice is to own as little exposure U.S. equity exposure as your career risk allows.” – Martin Tarlie, member of portfolio allocation at Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo investment management The following is an excerpt from the latest Short...
by irdadmin | Jan 30, 2019 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
The mis-pricing of money and credit has also driven a terrible misallocation of capital and kept unproductive zombie debtors alive for too long. Saxo Bank, “Beware The Global Policy Panic” “Mis-pricing of money and credit” refers to the ability...
