by irdadmin | Jan 5, 2018 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
“This time it’s different.” That quote is from Sir John Templeton, a legendary investor who is considered the father of the modern mutual fund industry. For most of the month of December, I’ve been hearing ads from mortgage brokers who are...
by irdadmin | Jan 4, 2018 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it bounces, marked, ‘Account overdrawn.’ – Francisco’s “Money” Speech – from “Atlas Shrugged”...
by irdadmin | Jan 3, 2018 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
No society that depends on money can work for long if nobody knows the true value of things, including the value of money itself. The price of attempting to live in a culture of pervasive dishonesty is that a re-set is inevitable. When it happens, it will be hugely...
by irdadmin | Dec 28, 2017 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
In Hemingway’s, “The Sun Also Rises,” one of the characters, Bill, asks his friend, “Mike,” how he went bankrupt. Mike replied, “I had a lot of friends. False friends. Then I had creditors…” This passage from the novel...
by irdadmin | Dec 21, 2017 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals
The simple answer to that question is: who knows, eventually it will. I like to look at the Commitment of Traders report for signals. I think the COT offers better information than looking at charts, although I like to use my COT analysis in conjunction with charts....
by irdadmin | Dec 18, 2017 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals
A guest post by Stewart Dougherty IRD’s Note: In the past year, there has been a noticeably substantial increase in the use of the obscurely defined EFPs (Exchange for Physicals) and PNTs (Privately Negotiated Transactions) in the settlement of Comex gold and...