by irdadmin | May 19, 2017 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
At the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, someone asked Ben Franklin: “have we got a Republic or a Monarchy?” To which Dr. Franklin replied, “A Republic – if you can keep it.” – from the notes of Dr. James McHenry,...
by irdadmin | May 18, 2017 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
IRD believes that the Deep State’s plan all along was to use the election of Trump as a stalking horse to “back door” their obedient foot soldier, Mike Pence, into the Oval Office. Too be sure, HRC was a Deep State emissary but she also had her own...
by irdadmin | May 17, 2017 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
The by-line on Fox Business this a.m. was that stocks were down because of “DC grid-lock.” Is this some kind of joke? How about stocks are down because they are more overvalued than at anytime in history by every single financial metric except the highly...
by irdadmin | May 15, 2017 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Whenever I constructed a “difficult to sell” muni deal, I could count on the Rochester Family of Funds[Oppenheimer’s Rochester muni fund complex] to buy the deal if there was some “juice” in the yield. After all its other peoples money right? – an email...
by irdadmin | May 14, 2017 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
You’ve probably heard/read a lot lately about the VIX index. The VIX index is a measure of the implied volatility of S&P 500 index options. The VIX is popularly known as a market “fear” index. The concept underlying the VIX is that it measures...
by irdadmin | May 12, 2017 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
Global demand for silver declined from 2015 to 2016 by 123 million ozs per numbers from the Silver Institute presented in an article on The Daily Coin yesterday. In fact, for the demand categories primarily driven by the consumer, demand plummeted 125 million ozs,...