by irdadmin | Dec 11, 2018 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
I chuckle when the hedge fund algos grab onto “positive” trade war headlines and trigger a sharp spike in stock futures. Settlement of the trade war between the Trump Government and China will do nothing to prevent a global economic recession – a...
by irdadmin | Nov 15, 2018 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals, U.S. Economy
I perused Tesla’s Q3 10-Q and scrutinized the footnotes to figure out, to the extent possible, where Tesla manipulated GAAP accounting standards and outright “cooked” its numbers. Before I had a chance to analyze the 10-Q, others had already posted...
by irdadmin | Nov 13, 2018 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Phil Rothenberg, VP of Legal at Tesla, is leaving the company. He’s been at Tesla for nearly 8 years; previously worked at the SEC. I assume Phil has a lot of stock and a lot of stock options, having been at the Company for eight years, including a nice chunk...
by irdadmin | Nov 2, 2018 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
I have not had a chance to scour the 10-Q, which was finally filed this morning. GM and Ford are 7-8x larger than Tesla in terms of revenues and 40-50x larger in terms of number of vehicles sold worldwide. Those two companies file their 10-Q almost immediately after...
by irdadmin | Oct 30, 2018 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
I think we can all agree, it was an interesting week last week in the stock market, to say the least. For the week, the Dow was down 2.9%, the SPX was down 3.9% and the Nasdaq was down 3.8%. All three indices closed below their 200 dma. It can be argued that, on a...
