by irdadmin | Mar 30, 2016 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally...
by irdadmin | Mar 30, 2016 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
I’m not sure which is more off the rails: the stock market bubble that is being inflated or the Chairman of the of the organization that is doing the inflating: Hmmm…”Well, let me start — let me start with the question of the Fed’s...
by irdadmin | Mar 29, 2016 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals
The price of gold ran up 20% since the beginning of 2016 through early March. In response to “overbought” readings in the popular momentum indicators, the superficial gold commentators become short term bearish. Additionally, based on what appeared too...
by irdadmin | Mar 28, 2016 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
Since 1971, when the world officially abandoned the gold standard, economic growth has been stimulated through vigorous applications of aggressive Central Banking monetary policies: the imposition of artificially low nominal interest and boundlessly unrestrained...
by irdadmin | Mar 24, 2016 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
The economic reports released this morning added to the near-continuous flow of information reflecting a U.S. economy that is likely contracting, for the most part. Perhaps the only “fundamental” variable not contracting is the hot air coming from the...
by irdadmin | Mar 23, 2016 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Note: For the record, I am expecting the possibility that the new homes sales report for February released today will show an unexpected spike up. For the past several months, there’s been what I believe to be a pre-meditated pattern in which the existing home...
