by irdadmin | Oct 31, 2017 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria. – Sir John Templeton I’ve always admired John Templeton. Not as the “father” of the modern mutual fund but because I considered him to have been...
by irdadmin | Oct 27, 2017 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Jeff Bezos/Amazon is the poster-child for the degree to which this entire economic and political system is profoundly corrupt. – Investment Research Dynamics Amazon stock made a big after-hours “shock and awe” move after it reported a huge headline...
by irdadmin | Feb 22, 2017 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Toll Brothers reported its Fiscal Q1 earnings this morning. Year over for the quarter: Revenues declined nearly 1%, operating income plunged 46.8%, net income dropped 4.1%. Net income was boosted by the reliable accounting management technique of reducing the...
by irdadmin | Oct 27, 2016 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Tesla created massive confusion in the financial reporting and analyst community by allegedly coming clean and report actual GAAP quarterly financial results for its 3rd quarter. But of course, just like the entire U.S. Banana Republic, the use of extreme obfuscation,...
by irdadmin | Mar 18, 2016 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation
A reader asked my opinion on the latest commentaries posted on Seeking Alpha about VRX. Generally they had a bullish slant, permeated with gratuitous rationalization seeded in blind hope. “Hope” is not a valid investment strategy. VRX is down another 8%...
