by irdadmin | Jul 26, 2017 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
Analysts who advocate a monetary policy that targets “low inflation” are the equivalent of chickens in the barnyard rooting for Colonel Sanders to succeed. This idea that a low level of inflation being good for the economy is beyond moronic. The fiat...
by irdadmin | Jul 24, 2017 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Existing home sales declined nearly 2% in June from May on a SAAR basis (Seasonally Adjusted Annualized Rate). (SAAR is the statistically manipulated metric used by industry organizations and the Government to spin bad monthly economic data into an annualized metric...
by irdadmin | Jul 21, 2017 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
I saw a thought-provoking retweet on Mark Yusko’s twitter feed and I wanted to clarify the idea conveyed: “When bonds yields nothing, they aren’t much different than currencies.” This comment is somewhat misleading because bonds are indeed a...
by irdadmin | Jul 20, 2017 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
And once again Chipotle ($CMG) is in the news for business operations negligence. Where the hell is the local Department of Health? E-coli, customer credit card hacks, novovirus and now rats falling from ceiling – Are You Sure That’s Pork?. As the...
by irdadmin | Jul 19, 2017 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals
Once again there was an overnight “flash crash” in Comex gold futures trading. This time it occurred at 3:56 a.m. EST at one of the quietest trading periods of the roughly 23 hour electronic trading day. India has gone sleep. The Shanghai Gold Exchange...
by irdadmin | Jul 17, 2017 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
Doc asked me last minute to fill-in for Eric Dubin, who’s M.I.A. somewhere on the shoreline of southern France, on Silver Doctor’s Metals and Markets weekly podcast. Among other topics we discussed why the current trading action in the precious metals...
