by irdadmin | Nov 10, 2020 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
The advance estimate of Q3 GDP was released on Thursday, October 29th. The headline number was 33.1% (annualized rate) vs 31% expected and negative 31.4% for Q2. This was John Williams’ (Shadowstats.com) comment on the headline number: “ShadowStats...
by irdadmin | Jun 5, 2020 | Financial Markets
“Well, now that we have seen each other,” said the unicorn, “if you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.” – Lewis Carroll, “Through The Looking Glass” “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world...
by irdadmin | May 3, 2019 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
Notwithstanding today’s absurdly phony and propagandistic employment report, it’s becoming more apparent by the week that the Fed and the U.S. Government are once again preparing to print more money. I don’t know when the Fed will revert to more QE...
by irdadmin | Feb 1, 2019 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Last month the Government’s Bureau of Lies And Statistics served up an employment report purporting 312,000 new jobs in December. This despite massive seasonal retail lay-offs in the latter half of the month. The BLS happily counts those jobs when hired in...
by irdadmin | Sep 7, 2018 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
“Today’s job numbers might be the biggest disaster I’ve ever seen reported. This Fall could get real ugly real fast. The deterioration of the participation rate is so big it makes me suspicious of earlier numbers.” – John Titus, producer...