by irdadmin | Jun 1, 2018 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
The National Association of Realtors released its monthly “Pending” home sale report for April this morning. It fell 1.3% from March. The Wall Street analytic “brain trust” was looking for a 0.4% gain. The housing data is repetitively...
by irdadmin | May 27, 2018 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
A branch manager gets home loans for borrowers with weak credit or low incomes—and taxpayers back him up. – Bloomberg.com Bloomberg News featured a story today that I find to be an outrage. It seems that some punk kid in Houston – Angelo Christian –...
by irdadmin | May 23, 2018 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
Patrick Vierra of Singapore Bullion invited me to discuss precious metals, the stock market and the fiat currency-fueled asset bubbles that will blow-up sooner or later. I explain why investing in gold requires a long term perspective on investing and wealth...
by irdadmin | May 11, 2018 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, U.S. Economy
Other people’s money is always more fun to play with recklessly than your own. As such there’s been a quiet escalation in number of private capital pools offering mortgage (and auto) financing to subprime quality borrowers. “Special Circumstance...
by irdadmin | May 9, 2018 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
I strongly believe that labeling the condition of the stock market based on arbitrary “percentage changes” up or down is absurd. But then again most attributes of the current stock market are sublimely ridiculous, if not outright Orwellian. But, what the...
