by irdadmin | Aug 6, 2019 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
…ushers in the restoration of price discovery in the precious metals market. The price of gold is at or near an all-time in most currencies except the dollar. This summer, however, it would appear that the dollar-based valuation of gold is starting to break the...
by irdadmin | Jul 31, 2019 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
Regardless of the Fed Funds rate policy decision by the FOMC today, the economy is spinning down the drain. Lower rates won’t help stimulate much economic activity. Maybe it will arouse a little more financial engineering activity on Wall Street and it might...
by irdadmin | Jul 9, 2019 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Jerome Powell will deliver the Fed’s semi-annual testimony on monetary policy (formerly known as the Humphrey-Hawkins testimony) to Congress this week. He’ll likely bore us to tears bloviating about “low inflation” and a “tight labor...
by irdadmin | Mar 26, 2019 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
The news headlines explained the sudden jump in the S&P futures this morning by stating that “recession fears had faded.” Just like that. Overnight. I guess the fact that the housing starts report showed a 9% sequential drop in housing starts last...
by irdadmin | Feb 7, 2019 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
“Our advice is to own as little exposure U.S. equity exposure as your career risk allows.” – Martin Tarlie, member of portfolio allocation at Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo investment management The following is an excerpt from the latest Short...