by irdadmin | Feb 28, 2021 | Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals
To paraphrase JP Morgan’s (the man) 1912 testimony to Congress: “Gold is money, everything else is credit.” JP Morgan, 1912 The question you’ll need to answer for yourself is “what alternatives are there for big investments right...
by irdadmin | Nov 13, 2020 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
Despite the pervasive and omnipresent manipulation of the gold price implemented in the paper derivatives gold market – which in no way reflects the true supply/demand characteristics of the underlying market for physical gold and silver – gold has been...
by irdadmin | Oct 16, 2020 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
The big rally in Q2 continued into Q3 until early August. At that point, all of the technical and sentiment indicators I monitor were registering levels which indicated that the speculative frenzy that developed in July had reached the point of “boiling...
by irdadmin | Feb 20, 2020 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
Q: “Why is the Fed reluctant to let the boom-bust nature of markets play out?” A: “Because it what’s they’ve always done [since the Fed was founded in 1913]…Once you’re in power, you’re going to do what you can to defend...
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...