by irdadmin | Jul 31, 2019 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
Regardless of the Fed Funds rate policy decision by the FOMC today, the economy is spinning down the drain. Lower rates won’t help stimulate much economic activity. Maybe it will arouse a little more financial engineering activity on Wall Street and it might...
by irdadmin | Jul 24, 2019 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
Texas Instruments reported its Q2 yesterday after the close. Revenues were down 9% YoY for Q2 and management forecast an 11% decline for Q3. The stock market rewarded this fundamental deterioration in TXN’s business model by adding nearly $8 billion to...
by irdadmin | Jul 22, 2019 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
“Tesla’s headed for bankruptcy. It’s got a flawed business model; costs are way too high for the price charged for the vehicles and its riddled with accounting fraud. But the regulators will look the other way until it’s too late.” Silver...
by irdadmin | Jul 9, 2019 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Jerome Powell will deliver the Fed’s semi-annual testimony on monetary policy (formerly known as the Humphrey-Hawkins testimony) to Congress this week. He’ll likely bore us to tears bloviating about “low inflation” and a “tight labor...
by irdadmin | Jul 2, 2019 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
The Chinese have been slowly trading out of their U.S. dollar exposure and converting it to gold. Something a lot of analysts don’t pay attention to because they don’t even know what the facts are [with regard to the actual amount of physical gold held by...
by irdadmin | Jun 27, 2019 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
“We are confident we can produce further improvement in our results in the second half of this year” – KB Homes CEO in reference to its “returns-focused” growth model “Returns-Focused Growth Model.” Has a nice ring to it,...