by irdadmin | Oct 15, 2019 | Financial Markets
The stock market spiked up last week as Trump started in with his trade war optimism tweets, which excited the algos and momentum chasers. As Monday rolled around, however, it was determined that a “Phase 1” trade agreement amounted to nothing more than a...
by irdadmin | Oct 10, 2019 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) – the Central Bank of Central Banks – released two reports on “unconventional policy tools” – e.g. QE/money printing and interest rate suppression. It concluded that the extreme Central Bank...
by irdadmin | Oct 2, 2019 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
“[Whatever] the repo failure involved, it is likely to prove a watershed moment, causing US bankers to more widely consider their exposure to counterparty risk and risky loans, particularly leveraged loans and their collateralised form in CLOs. a new banking...
by irdadmin | Aug 7, 2019 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
The global economy is headed uncontrollably toward the proverbial cliff. Although the Central Banks will once again attempt to defer this reality with more money printing and currency devaluation, systemic collapse is fait accompli. Gold and silver are behaving in a...
by irdadmin | Jul 31, 2019 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
Regardless of the Fed Funds rate policy decision by the FOMC today, the economy is spinning down the drain. Lower rates won’t help stimulate much economic activity. Maybe it will arouse a little more financial engineering activity on Wall Street and it might...
