by irdadmin | Jul 29, 2021 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
I ordinarily do not spend time reading the FOMC policy statement after it’s released, saving that brain damage for CNBC. But I read the June release to assess for myself whether or not the Fed had tilted toward a more “hawkish” policy stance and...
by irdadmin | May 12, 2021 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
“Fostering transparency and accountability at the Federal Reserve was one of my principal objectives when I became Chairman in February 2006.” – Ben Bernanke, outgoing Fed Chairman 2014 “Recently I used the word ‘revolution’ to...
by irdadmin | Nov 6, 2020 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals
Many junior micro-cap exploration stocks have experienced sharp declines. Low relative liquidity in these names contributes meaningfully to the decline in share-price because for many of these these stocks, most of the trading occurs by the retail shareholder base,...
by irdadmin | Aug 28, 2020 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
“After thinking about it all day, I’m still not quite sure this isn’t a joke; a high-brow commitment of utterly brilliant performance art, the kind of Four-D masterpiece of hilarious deception that Andy Kaufman would’ve gone nuts over. I mean, it has to be,...
by irdadmin | 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...
