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...
by irdadmin | Dec 15, 2017 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
The popular narrative that has gripped the financial media searching for reasons that the price of gold is sluggish for reasons other than overt western Central Bank manipulation, is that Bitcoin interest is diverting cash that would otherwise be going into gold....
by irdadmin | Dec 15, 2017 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
The headline retail sales report, released today by the Census Bureau, showed a rather unexpectedly large 0.8% jump from October. The Wall Street brain trust was expecting a 0.3% increase. Of course, 99% of stock market investors and 100% of the financial media...
