by Dave Kranzler | Apr 3, 2020 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals
Unequivocally, gold does not trade on the Comex. The Comex trades paper gold derivatives. It is a futures and options exchange on which a small amount of 100 oz. gold bars change ownership each contract month. The transfer of title is facilitated by the creation of an...
by Dave Kranzler | Mar 31, 2020 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals
I truly thought I had seen all that was possible in the creation of paper gold when the Comex rolled out its “pledged gold” category which enabled technically insolvent banks like HSBC and JP Morgan – the only two Comex banks to have taken advantage...
by Dave Kranzler | Mar 30, 2020 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
I found it amusing that Zerohedge tried to take credit for reporting the problem of a physical gold shortage on the LBMA and Comex earlier last week. Several of we “gold bugs” have been discussing and reporting on this issue since before the virus crisis...
by Dave Kranzler | Feb 5, 2020 | Financial Markets, Gold, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
To say the current stock market is in a bubble is an insult to the word “bubble.” Tesla experienced an insanely idiotic stock price move after reporting “shock and awe” headline numbers for revenue and EPS which “beat” estimates...
by Dave Kranzler | Jan 17, 2020 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals
The chart above shows the ratio of GDXJ/GDX. Although I don’t consider GDXJ to be a junior ETF per se, the GDXJ index does contain smaller cap, later-stage juniors and smaller cap producers. In that sense, it offers slightly higher risk/returns than GDX. That...
