by irdadmin | Dec 30, 2016 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
A guest post from Stewart Dougherty. Stewart included some thoughts in his email to me that I thought should be shared as a preface to his essay: ——————– Hi Dave: Some pretty heady stuff, particularly the part about the...
by irdadmin | Dec 19, 2016 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
The Census Bureau reported that its advance estimates of retail sales for November show a .1% gain from October and a 3.8% gain over November 2015. Wall St. was forecasting a .4% gain. Oops. But there’s a bigger problem with that headline report of a .1%...
by irdadmin | Dec 13, 2016 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
I was chatting with a good friend who works at a pension fund. He said that pensions are historically overweighted in stocks right now. But it looks like the latest push higher in the stock market is coming from hedge funds, who apparently missed a large portion of...
by irdadmin | Dec 9, 2016 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
At -1.3 percent, disappointing restaurant sales growth in November was the ninth consecutive month of negative same-store sales; and the worst sales growth since July…Same-store sales for third and fourth quarters, at the end of November, are both -1.1 percent....
by irdadmin | Dec 7, 2016 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals
The degree and level of propaganda now flowing from the Establishment and the Establishment-controlled mainstream media is on par with that of the old Soviet Politburo or German Third Reich. In fact, I’d confidently propose that this point is incontestable....
