The U.S. Government has gone to great lengths in using accounting gimmicks to prop up the financial system and domestic economy. One area where this is readily apparent is the disconnect between the rising U.S. debt versus the annual budget deficits. Mish Shedlock wrote about this in his article, U.S….
(By Wolf Richter) A “trust-building” measure after an enormous hullabaloo. “In 2016, we brought back again substantially more gold to Germany than initially planned; by now, nearly half of the gold reserves are in Germany,” Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann told the German tabloid Bild in what has become an annual…
The one thing silver investors want to know, is when will the manipulation of the silver price finally end. And who can blame then. It becomes extremely frustrating to watch the silver price fade lower and lower, especially as the Dow Jones Index gets ready to surpass the 20,000 level….
(By Wolf Richter) Going down the drain, putting this wondrous stock market at risk? Companies in the S&P 500 spent about $3 trillion since 2011 to buy back their own shares, often with borrowed money. It’s part of a noble magic called financial engineering, the simplest way to goose the…
Tom Cloud provides a new video that discusses five important updates and developments. He starts off with the implications and policies of the Federal Reserve during a new Trump Administration. Tom then explains the Deutsche Bank silver manipulation lawsuits suggest that there are 100 banks listed as part of the…
The world doesn’t realize it yet, but the implosion of the global markets has started and can’t be stopped. While the financial networks continue to focus on the rising U.S. stock market and Dollar, this represents a mindset that has totally gone insane. Why? Because the rapidly increasing Dollar and…