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...
by irdadmin | Jul 11, 2019 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
“You’ve assigned us the job of two direct, real-economy objectives: maximum employment, stable prices. If you assigned us [to] stabilize the dollar price of gold, monetary policy could do that, but the other things would fluctuate and we wouldn’t...
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 | Jan 26, 2019 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
First it was the loudly broadcast convening of the Working Group on Financial Markets – aka “the Plunge Protection Team” – by the PPT’s el Jefe, Steven Mnuchin. This was followed the “mouse that roared” speech from Fed head,...
by irdadmin | Feb 27, 2018 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
Fed Head, Jerome Powell, is not an economist. He’s a politician who made a lot of money at the Carlyle Group. He has an undergraduate degree in politics and went to law school. After working for awhile as a lawyer at a big Wall St. firm, Powell migrated to...
