by Dave Kranzler | Aug 10, 2020 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
“Investors are being infantilized by the relentless Federal Reserve activity…It’s as if the Fed considers them foolish children, unable to rationally set the prices of securities so it must intervene.” – Seth Klarman, Baupost Group This is indeed the...
by Dave Kranzler | Jun 10, 2020 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
The bullion banks – at least on the Comex – have reduced their risk exposure to gold and silver derivatives over the last several months, which means reducing their short exposure. This is likely in response to the rising risk that they will be unable to...
by Dave Kranzler | May 12, 2020 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
“At the parabolic top of every financial bubble, thrilled investors lose their tether to reality, and as the price of the speculative instrument rallies ever higher, investors’ expectations for additional price appreciation inflate ever more. Whether its Cisco...
by Dave Kranzler | Apr 22, 2020 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
For central banks, monetary inflation is everywhere the solution. Bank rescues, payment chain failures, the furloughing of millions of employees, helicopter money to bail out whole populations, money to bail out governments, money to support all categories of...
by Dave Kranzler | Apr 10, 2020 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
“You [the public] are the sucker. Your role in the Federal Reserve System is to absorb losses [on the crappy assets the Fed buys off of bank and hedge fund balance sheets]…The Fed is there to facilitate your absorption of those losses and that’s...
