by Dave Kranzler | Nov 18, 2020 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
As of last week, the Federal Reserve now owns 16.5% of the total amount of Treasuries outstanding and 18.5% of the total amount of mortgage-backed bonds outstanding. With out this massive amount of Fed intervention, interest rates would be significantly higher and...
by Dave Kranzler | Nov 13, 2020 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
Despite the pervasive and omnipresent manipulation of the gold price implemented in the paper derivatives gold market – which in no way reflects the true supply/demand characteristics of the underlying market for physical gold and silver – gold has been...
by Dave Kranzler | Nov 6, 2020 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals
Many junior micro-cap exploration stocks have experienced sharp declines. Low relative liquidity in these names contributes meaningfully to the decline in share-price because for many of these these stocks, most of the trading occurs by the retail shareholder base,...
by Dave Kranzler | Oct 30, 2020 | Financial Markets, Gold, Precious Metals
The eastern hemisphere Eurasian geopolitical economic bloc of countries led by China and Russia have been systematically reducing their usage in the U.S. dollar to settle bilateral trade activity: “In the first quarter of 2020, trade between Russia and China in...
by Dave Kranzler | Oct 29, 2020 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals
Gold and silver futures have been used for decades to control the price of gold and silver. In fact, declassified letters )which can be found in the GATA archive) that bounced between Henry Kissinger and his advisors in the early 1970’s discuss the need for a...
by Dave Kranzler | Oct 28, 2020 | Financial Markets, Gold, Precious Metals
The following commentary is from Chris Powell, the Treasurer of GATA. I fully endorse his view. In fact, when the report initially surfaced that the World Gold Council reported Central Banks to be net sellers of gold in September, I summarily dismissed it for the...
