by irdadmin | Sep 28, 2017 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Existing Home Sales were released Wednesday and the NAR’s seasonally adjusted annualized rate metric was down 1.7% from July. July was down 1.3% from June. The NAR’s SAAR metric is at its lowest rate since last August. Naturally the hurricane that hit...
by irdadmin | Sep 27, 2017 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Wash, rinse, repeat. The American public never gets tired of the destructive abuse it suffers from Wall St. The deep sub-prime mortgage market is roaring back and, with it, the nuclear bomb-laden derivatives that triggered round one of The Big Short de facto financial...
by irdadmin | Sep 25, 2017 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
The official lies about the economy keep mounting. The Dallas Fed reports that its regional economic activity metric surged in early September, despite the complete shut-down of Houston for a few days during the “measurement” period. The “general...
by irdadmin | Sep 23, 2017 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
The “crisis” quote above originated with Winston Churchill. Several U.S. politicians have referenced it since then (most recently Rahm Emanuel when he was Obama’s Chief of Staff). I’m sure the Wall Street snake-oil salesmen and economic...
by irdadmin | Sep 20, 2017 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
To begin with, how exactly does one define “normalize” in reference to the Fed’s balance sheet? The Fed predictably held off raising rates again today. However, it said that beginning in October it would no longer re-invest proceeds from its...
by irdadmin | Sep 14, 2017 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
I actively traded the internet stocks during the late stages of the internet/tech stock bubble in 1999 – from the short side. I will admit that I did take a few long-side day trade rides on a few internet stocks. I remember one Chinese internet stock that I...
