I received a lot of heat from trolls on various social platforms after publishing Spoofing the Gold and Silver Ambulance Chasers Part 1. I suspect this time will be no different. Maybe we will have a Part 3 at some point. The manipulation topic is broad and littered...
“What matters is not the trigger, but the preconditions that make the system vulnerable.” – Jim Rickards So here we are, ten years to the day of the Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy on September 14, 2008. The gut-wrenching fear leading up to Lehman’s demise that prevailed...
Quantitative Easing (QE) is money printing no matter how you slice and dice it. Most of our money (aka fiat currency) exists within an electronic medium today, with the exception of gold and silver in your hands. QE involves the Fed creating new money that is used to...
Roughly 10 years ago, the great financial crisis began to show its colors, followed by 8 years of ZIRP and several rounds of QE. It has taken 2.5 years for the FOMC to raise interest rates back to the 1.75% to 2% range. We are currently at the same level where...
A Goldman Sachs research paper plastered the financial media headlines today with a no-burger descriptive… “We have entered uncharted territory.” Excuse me for a moment while I take a few deep breaths of fresh, record warmth blowing up the east coast… Ok, I am back....