by Dave Kranzler | Aug 2, 2017 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
July auto sales was a blood-bath for U.S auto makers. The SAAR (Seasonally Manipulated Adjusted Annualized Rate) metric – aka “statistical vomit” – presented a slight increase for July over June (16.7 SAAR vs 16.5 SAAR). But the statisticians...
by Dave Kranzler | Jul 31, 2017 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
“‘Faith’ is defined as “belief without evidence.” AMZN is a stock investment that thrives on investor faith. Investor greed transforms into irrational faith when the faith is rewarded with stock gains. This will ultimately burn out but it’s...
by Dave Kranzler | Jul 28, 2017 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Over the time since I started the Short Seller’s Journal, several subscribers have asked about Netflix (NFLX). For some reason I have refrained from presenting it as a short idea, instead choosing AMZN and TSLA as my insanely overvalued “tech poison”...
by Dave Kranzler | Jul 26, 2017 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
Analysts who advocate a monetary policy that targets “low inflation” are the equivalent of chickens in the barnyard rooting for Colonel Sanders to succeed. This idea that a low level of inflation being good for the economy is beyond moronic. The fiat...
by Dave Kranzler | Jul 24, 2017 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Existing home sales declined nearly 2% in June from May on a SAAR basis (Seasonally Adjusted Annualized Rate). (SAAR is the statistically manipulated metric used by industry organizations and the Government to spin bad monthly economic data into an annualized metric...
by Dave Kranzler | Jul 21, 2017 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
I saw a thought-provoking retweet on Mark Yusko’s twitter feed and I wanted to clarify the idea conveyed: “When bonds yields nothing, they aren’t much different than currencies.” This comment is somewhat misleading because bonds are indeed a...
