by irdadmin | May 11, 2018 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, U.S. Economy
Other people’s money is always more fun to play with recklessly than your own. As such there’s been a quiet escalation in number of private capital pools offering mortgage (and auto) financing to subprime quality borrowers. “Special Circumstance...
by irdadmin | May 9, 2018 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
I strongly believe that labeling the condition of the stock market based on arbitrary “percentage changes” up or down is absurd. But then again most attributes of the current stock market are sublimely ridiculous, if not outright Orwellian. But, what the...
by irdadmin | May 3, 2018 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
Not much needs to be said about Tesla. Elon Musk’s performance on the Company’s conference call speaks for itself. He basically told the lemming analysts who have been the Company’s Wall Street carnival barkers to go have sex with themselves in...
by irdadmin | May 1, 2018 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
What concerns me is when people put their hard-earned money into housing or any other supposed store of value thinking that the sky is the limit. We are living in an age of epic distortions, misinformation and outright fraud. – Aaron Layman, Dallas-based...
by irdadmin | Apr 29, 2018 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
I continue to believe that the “lowest hanging fruit” in shorting this stock market is the homebuilders and related stocks. History appears to be repeating, or at least “rhyming” in the housing sector: Most investors do not realize this,...
by irdadmin | Apr 26, 2018 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
JD Powers and LMC Automotive are projecting auto sales to drop 8% in April from a year-ago April: For much of the past two years, the discounts offered by automakers have remained at levels that industry analysts say are unsustainable and unhealthy in the long...
