by irdadmin | Apr 7, 2023 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
Back in January, John Titus warned that we were in the midst of a banking crisis. And sure enough, just over a month later, the evidence of the crisis emerged with the sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. I invited John back on to my bi-weekly...
by irdadmin | Mar 17, 2023 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals
The Fed and U.S. Treasury have made to decision to back-stop depositors at U.S. banks – a liability that could potentially hit $2 trillion. More interestingly, there must be a considerable amount of counter-party default risk embedded in the banking system...
by irdadmin | Nov 29, 2022 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
Based on the rate of depletion of gold and silver bars from bank custodial vaults in London and NYC, it’s fair to say a “low-grade” physical metals rush is in process – much of it flowing to large eastern hemisphere buyers. This...
by irdadmin | Sep 6, 2022 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
There’s an egregious misperception that QE is merely an “asset swap” with banks that simply creates reserves – that the Fed is not printing money with its QE operations. This view is seeded in ignorance about the monetary system as operated by...
by irdadmin | Dec 14, 2021 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals
I think the Fed knows that the fundamentals support a much higher gold price. I also believe that’s part of the reason that the Fed followed through on its taper threat, thereby posturing that it would tighten monetary policy, at least for now. That would...
