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Stock Buybacks A Piece Of “Financial Engineering Game”

Stock Buybacks A Piece Of “Financial Engineering Game” In today’s market far too much has become based on financial engineering rather than making money. Prior to the Great Depression share buybacks and margin lending was a huge factor in lifting stocks to an unsustainable level. We must remember this today because for years we have […]

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Three-Card Monte, Wall Street-Style

February 1, 2021

Three-Card Monte, Wall Street-Style Their operation was in jeopardy, their ‘business model’ at risk. Their reaction was typical for the brazen barons of finance, writes Michael Brenner. Surer than Three Card Monte, from the Tricks with Cards series (N138) Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco, 1887. (Metropolitan Museum of Art/Jefferson R. […]

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Regulators Expand Already Massive Precious Metals Manipulation Probe To Other Markets

September 18, 2019

Regulators Expand Already Massive Precious Metals Manipulation Probe To Other Markets Just two days after the DOJ took the unprecedented step of designating the JPMorgan precious metals trading desk as a “criminal enterprise” using unusually aggressive language which reminded legal experts of indictments utilizing the RICO Act, and which hopefully ended years of precious metal manipulation by the […]

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Could GE’s Slow Collapse Ignite A Financial Crisis?

December 3, 2018

Could GE’s Slow Collapse Ignite A Financial Crisis? Will GE be the proverbial “black swan?” – It had come to my attention that General Electric was locked out of the commercial paper market three weeks ago after Moody’s downgraded GE’s short term credit rating to a ratings level (P-2) that prevents prime money market funds […]

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JPMorgan Chase Trader Pleads Guilty to Gold Manipulation, Turns State’s Evidence

November 13, 2018

JPMorgan Chase Trader Pleads Guilty to Gold Manipulation, Turns State’s Evidence Gold and silver investors got a rare bit of good news on the enforcement front last week. A trader from JPMorgan Chase pled guilty to rigging the precious metals futures markets. John Edmonds admitted to cheating the bank’s clients and plenty of other people […]

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More Evidence The Economy Is Deteriorating

August 27, 2018

More Evidence The Economy Is Deteriorating “Financial-market and economic prospects remain far shy of the hype and headlines, amidst tanking consumer optimism and negative revisions to recent reporting.” – John Williams, Shadowstats.com The economy may seem like it’s doing well if you are part of the upper 10% demographic. Though, in reality, for most of […]

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The Yield Curve Is The Economy’s Canary In A Coal Mine

The Yield Curve Is The Economy’s Canary In A Coal Mine The economy has hit a wall and is now sliding down it. I don’t care what bullish propaganda may or may not be bubbling up in the headlines from the financial media and Wall Street, the hard numbers I look at everyday show accelerating […]

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How High Is The Risk of a Currency Crisis?

How High Is The Risk of a Currency Crisis? “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”, quipped Mark Twain in response to a newspaper report that said he was on his deathbed. The same could be said about many fiat currencies. Whether we are looking at the US dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen […]

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The Fed Targets Stock Prices – Here’s Why

February 18, 2018

The Fed Targets Stock Prices – Here’s Why The week before the Dow/SPX quickly plunged 10%, the Fed had reduced its SOMA account (the SOMA account is its “QE” account) by $21 billion. Just as quickly as the stock market dropped, it has sharply recovered more than half of its losses from the previous week. […]

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Whistleblower Exposes “Rampant Manipulation Of VIX”

February 13, 2018

Whistleblower Exposes “Rampant Manipulation Of VIX” We first exposed the “conspiracy fact” that VIX manipulation runs the entire market back in 2015 as the ubiquitous VIX-crushing algo-runs coincided with a non-stop shorting of VIX futures by a seemingly bottomless-pocketed player in the market… which happened to coincide with the arrival of Simon Potter as the […]

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EXCLUSIVE: Cramer admits the markets are manipulated

February 11, 2018

EXCLUSIVE: Cramer admits the markets are manipulated The markets are manipulated. All markets are manipulated. What’s the ‘take away’ ? You have several choices: A Get a job at one of the manipulators, break off and start your own manipulation firm B Find out how they are doing it and do it yourself (if you […]

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Gold EFPs: Absolute Proof That Paper Gold Is A Fraud

December 22, 2017

Gold EFPs: Absolute Proof That Paper Gold Is A Fraud IRD’s Note: In the past year, there has been a noticeably substantial increase in the use of the obscurely defined EFPs (Exchange for Physicals) and PNTs (Privately Negotiated Transactions) in the settlement of Comex gold and silver futures contracts. In simple terms, the EFPs and […]

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The War on Gold Intensifies: It Betrays The Elitists’ Panic And Coming Defeat – Part 1

December 5, 2017

The War on Gold Intensifies: It Betrays The Elitists’ Panic And Coming Defeat – Part 1 Dictatorship (noun): Definition #3: absolute power or authority (Websters); Def. #2: absolute, imperious or overbearing power or control (Random House); Def. #3: Absolute or despotic control or power (American Heritage); Def. #3: Absolute or supreme power or authority (Collins […]

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Get Ready To Party Like It’s 2008

October 20, 2017

Get Ready To Party Like It’s 2008 Apparently Treasury Secretary, ex-Goldman Sachs banker Steven Mnuchin, has threatened Congress with stock crash if Congress doesn’t pass a tax reform Bill. His reason is that the stock market surge since the election was based on the hopes of a big tax cut. This reminds me of 2008, […]

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Will The Fed Really “Normalize” Its Balance Sheet?

September 21, 2017

Will The Fed Really “Normalize” Its Balance Sheet? To begin with, how exactly does one define “normalize” in reference to the Fed’s balance sheet? The Fed predictably held off raising rates again today. However, it said that beginning in October it would no longer re-invest proceeds from its Treasury and mortgage holdings and let the […]

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