by irdadmin | 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...
by irdadmin | Jul 20, 2017 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
And once again Chipotle ($CMG) is in the news for business operations negligence. Where the hell is the local Department of Health? E-coli, customer credit card hacks, novovirus and now rats falling from ceiling – Are You Sure That’s Pork?. As the...
by irdadmin | Jul 17, 2017 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
Doc asked me last minute to fill-in for Eric Dubin, who’s M.I.A. somewhere on the shoreline of southern France, on Silver Doctor’s Metals and Markets weekly podcast. Among other topics we discussed why the current trading action in the precious metals...
by irdadmin | Jul 14, 2017 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, U.S. Economy
From a Short Seller’s Journal Subscriber: I just read the piece on Denver homes and the idea of taking a lower price. $100,000 less jumped out. We are selling our overpriced turkey in the clouds in a posh area of Nevada where stupid money goes to die. Our...
by irdadmin | Jul 11, 2017 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
The biggest problem facing Illinois is the public pension fund problem. I don’t care what the “official” number is for the degree to which it is underfunded. I can guarantee that even without marking-to-real-market the illiquid investments like...
by irdadmin | Jul 10, 2017 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Amazon stock is up $6 in pre-market trading because it’s…”Prime Day!” But what does this really mean? It means AMZN will burn more cash selling and fulfilling commodity products with free 2-day shipping. But it will likely get another $20 pop...