by irdadmin | Sep 26, 2022 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
I had an interesting dialogue with a couple of long-time colleagues about this commentary by Wall Street On Parade. The Martens do an admirable job exposing the corruption on Wall Street, the Fed and Congress. But they exhibit a profound misunderstanding of the...
by irdadmin | Sep 6, 2022 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
There’s an egregious misperception that QE is merely an “asset swap” with banks that simply creates reserves – that the Fed is not printing money with its QE operations. This view is seeded in ignorance about the monetary system as operated by...
by irdadmin | Aug 30, 2022 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation
The following is an excerpt from the latest issue of the Short Seller’s Journal. I have been hitting doubles, triples and home runs with my housing market-related stock shorts, like $OPEN, $HOUS, $Z, $PSA, $REZ plus homebuilder stocks. You can learn more about...
by irdadmin | Aug 16, 2022 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
Despite the highly massaged CPI report last week, inflation remains entrenched and persistent at a historically level. Meanwhile, the economy continues to contract, average household real earnings become more negative and the housing market is in a slow motion...
by irdadmin | Aug 4, 2022 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
“[T]he Committee decided to raise the target range for the federal funds rate to 2-1/4 to 2-1/2 percent and anticipates that ongoing increases in the target range will be appropriate. In addition, the Committee will continue reducing its holdings of Treasury...
by irdadmin | Jul 24, 2022 | Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, Uncategorized
“Back in the day, you remember when we started in the industry, the talk of gold manipulation was really…like, you couldn’t talk about it. It was like an underground thing. You were seen as a conspiracy person if you did speak about it, and now...