by Dave Kranzler | Feb 15, 2018 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
The Fed added $11 billion to its SOMA account for the week ending yesterday. It purchased $11 billion in mortgage securities directly from banks. This injects $11 billion into the banking system. Cash is “high powered” money, meaning it can be leveraged...
by Dave Kranzler | Feb 15, 2018 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
The current “debt ceiling” has been suspended until March 2019. The current amount of Treasury debt outstanding is $20.681 trillion. It has been estimated that the amount of Treasury outstanding by March 2019 will be as high as $22 trillion. U.S....
by Dave Kranzler | Feb 13, 2018 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
Paul Craig Roberts, Dave Kranzler, Michael Hudson For many decades the Federal Reserve has rigged the bond market by its purchases. And for about a century, central banks have set interest rates (mainly to stabilize their currency’s exchange rate) with collateral...
by Dave Kranzler | Feb 11, 2018 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
Jim Rogers stated in an interview with Bloomberg that “the next bear market will be worst in my lifetime,” adding that he didn’t know when that bear market would occur. The stock market has become insanely overvalued. Before last week, several...
by Dave Kranzler | Feb 8, 2018 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
Is the Stock Market Rigged? Paul Craig Roberts, Dave Kranzler, and Michael Hudson On February 6 PCR asked if the Plunge Protection Team had stepped in and prevented a stock market correction by purchasing equity index futures....
by Dave Kranzler | Jan 28, 2018 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
There is no history to suggest this is sustainable. This price move remains the most extreme technical disconnect in the $DJIA ever. – Northman Trader The U.S. dollar has had the worst January since 1987. There’s a lot of reasons why the stock market...
