by irdadmin | Jun 16, 2017 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals
Many of you have contacted me about the sell-off in GDXJ and upcoming re-balancing that will occur at the end of this week (I think). First of all, thank you for your inquiries and please feel free to email me with questions/ideas. The only “dumb” question...
by irdadmin | Jun 15, 2017 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
The answer is debatable but it depends on, exactly, to which rates you are referring. The Fed has “raised,” more like “nudged,” the Fed Funds target rate about 50 basis points (one-half of one percent) this year. That is, the Fed’s...
by irdadmin | Jun 14, 2017 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” – George Orwell There’s a narrative here that the Government, the Fed, the Trump Administration, etc conveniently ignored. Here’s the headline...
by irdadmin | Jun 12, 2017 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
“Even the intelligent investor is likely to need considerable willpower to keep from following the crowd.” The quote above is from Ben Graham, considered to be the father of value investing. Graham followed the crowd in 1929 and lost a small fortune for...
by irdadmin | Jun 9, 2017 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth. – George Orwell A reader commented that the number of corporate lay-offs in America is escalating, yet the unemployment rate seems to keep going lower. Part of the reason for this is that the 2008...
by irdadmin | Jun 8, 2017 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
One/some/several “entities” decided at 9:38 a.m. this morning that it was necessary to dump 14,315 contracts of paper gold. This is just the August contract. In total a lot more was unloaded. This represents 1.43 million ozs of gold. The Comex is...
