by irdadmin | Dec 21, 2021 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
The Fed announced Wednesday that it would double its rate of taper, which means that by the end of March it will not longer be overtly dumping money into the banking system. It also implied, via its idiotic dot-plot, that there would be three interest hikes in 2022....
by irdadmin | Dec 16, 2021 | Financial Markets, U.S. Economy
“Ark Investment Management is “going through soul-searching” as its growth-focused funds fall out of favor amid expectations of tighter Federal Reserve policy…” – Cathie D Wood, December 9th on Bloomberg The chart above shows why all of Cathie...
by irdadmin | Dec 7, 2021 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
When someone plays with fire, that person eventually get burned. Most of the stocks Cathie Wood puts in her ETFs are the equivalent of playing with a blow-torch near puddles of gasoline. In 1999 retail “daytraders” partied until 1999 ended. A year later...
by irdadmin | Dec 6, 2021 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
There can be no denial of the high correlation between Bitcoin and the Nasdaq. The Nasdaq stocks were the favorite gambling chips for retail daytraders and reckless fund managers in the late 1990’s tech bubble. Now that internet technology, shrouded by...
by irdadmin | Dec 6, 2021 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Why would you nominate someone who just wrote a 70-page law review article–arguing that every checking account in the U.S. should be moved out of retail banks and into the Federal Reserve–to head up a bank regulatory agency, namely, the Office of the...
by irdadmin | Dec 1, 2021 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
Note: This commentary is from the November 25th issue of the Mining Stock Journal Without question, investing in the precious metals sector has been a pain in the ass for nearly the entire 20 years I’ve been involved. The official intervention, which has become...
