by irdadmin | Sep 3, 2021 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
The chart above shows the gold/HUI ratio going back to 2001. I would have used GDX but I wanted to take the graph back to beginning of the precious metals bull market and GDX didn’t start trading until May 2006. It’s not perfect, but in general when the...
by irdadmin | Aug 23, 2021 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Wall Street on Parade has discovered that three of the Fed’s programs used to monetize bad assets on the big Wall Street Bank balance sheets have been removed from the Fed’s monthly reports to Congress. The programs were legacy bailout facilities from the...
by irdadmin | Aug 12, 2021 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
“The concept of transitory is really this: it is that, uh, the increases will happen. We’re not saying they will reverse. That’s not what transitory means. It means that the increases in prices will happen, so there will be inflation, but that the...
by irdadmin | Aug 9, 2021 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
In the last FOMC policy announcement, the Fed announced that it is establishing a “standing” $500 billion repo facility open to domestic and foreign banks. A repo facility provides overnight or short term liquidity to the banking system. It moves liquidity...
by irdadmin | Aug 2, 2021 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
Silver and gold have been under intense attack in the paper silver/gold derivative markets (Comex, OTC derivatives) and the London unallocated phony physical bullion market since August 2020. But I believe that is about to end. The precious metals sector was...
by irdadmin | Jul 29, 2021 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
I ordinarily do not spend time reading the FOMC policy statement after it’s released, saving that brain damage for CNBC. But I read the June release to assess for myself whether or not the Fed had tilted toward a more “hawkish” policy stance and...
