by irdadmin | Mar 15, 2018 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
(Note: with apologies to Carl Reiner and Steve Martin, who directed and co-wrote “The Jerk,” respectively) Just when you thought Trump’s “leadership” could not get any more insane, he adds a third ring to the circus going on at 1600...
by irdadmin | Mar 9, 2018 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
The census bureau does the data-gathering and the Bureau of Labor Statistics feeds the questionable data sample through its statistical sausage grinder and spits out some type of grotesque scatological substance. You know an economic report is pure absurdity when the...
by irdadmin | Mar 3, 2018 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts sent me an article by Catherine Austin Fitts and asked if I had read it. The article is titled, “The State of America’s Pension Funds.” The article is worth reading, though I believe Ms. Fitts underestimates significantly the...
by irdadmin | Feb 27, 2018 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
Fed Head, Jerome Powell, is not an economist. He’s a politician who made a lot of money at the Carlyle Group. He has an undergraduate degree in politics and went to law school. After working for awhile as a lawyer at a big Wall St. firm, Powell migrated to...
by irdadmin | Feb 23, 2018 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
I’m still trying to understand how this nation became so deeply embroiled in this idiotic investigation into “he said, she said” about the Russians interfering in U.S. politics. I can tie it back to the presidential election campaign when Hillary...
by irdadmin | Feb 21, 2018 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
A colleague of mine pointed out that Trump has not been tweeting his flatulence about the economy recently. This thankful hiatus is after he just passed tax cuts and a spending budget that is supposed to be stimulative. As it turns out, the economy is hitting the...