by irdadmin | Mar 11, 2020 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
“The coronavirus could be the proverbial Black Swan event. No one saw that coming. We’ve seen everything else [up to this point] that’s coming. The Fed saw something coming in September and it wasn’t coronavirus.” All it took was a 10%...
by irdadmin | Nov 6, 2019 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
The major stock indices – the Dow, SPX and Nasdaq – have wafted up to all-time highs on a cloud of Central Bank printed money. Interestingly, most of the stocks in all three indices are below to well below their all-time highs. Breadth of the move is...
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...
