by irdadmin | May 12, 2021 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
“Fostering transparency and accountability at the Federal Reserve was one of my principal objectives when I became Chairman in February 2006.” – Ben Bernanke, outgoing Fed Chairman 2014 “Recently I used the word ‘revolution’ to...
by irdadmin | Apr 30, 2021 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
“March 2021 Producer Prices exploded across the board, with record levels of annualized First-Quarter 2021 Inflation of 8.99% for Total PPI-FD, 16.04% for PPI-FD Goods Sector and 5.62% for PPI-FD Services Sector (BLS)…On the more-meaningful Goods side,...
by irdadmin | Apr 27, 2021 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Existing home sales, reported last Thursday, were down 3.7% from February (down 6.3% in February). Wall St was thinking they would rise 0.8%. The seasonally adjusted annualized sales rate dropped to 7-month lows. The reason for struggling existing home sales is...
by irdadmin | Apr 20, 2021 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
In an eerie parallel to late 1999/early 2020, retail “investor” money has flooded into the stock market. The rush of newbies are signing up in lemming-like droves for corrupted stock trading apps like Robinhood. Schwab reported opening 3.2 million new...
by irdadmin | Apr 20, 2021 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
PENN is now down $25 (21%) from when I presented the idea in the February 14th issue at $118. After wrestling with its 100 dma since March 29th, it closed a bit below it on Friday and decidedly below it today. PENN’s Chairman Emeritus sold 3,000,000 shares on...
by irdadmin | Apr 14, 2021 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
The “beta” for long/short equity hedge funds has more than tripled vs the average beta since at least December 2018. Beta is the most common measure of stock or portfolio volatility relative to a broad equity index. Technically, beta is the percentage...