Category: Market Manipulation
The news items published under this category are as follows.
Friday, July 03, 2009
Banking Stocks Short Selling Ban Reinstatement SEC Idiocy / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Mike_Shedlock
Inquiring minds are reading S.E.C. May Reinstate Rules for Short-Selling Stocks.
Thursday, July 02, 2009
Make Bernie Madoff the Next Fed Chairman / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: LewRockwell
Bill Bonner writes: Poor Bernie. The man has been ordered to spend 150 years in the hoosegow. What for? Who did he kill? A century and a half seems a little excessive for a financial crime. You could hold up three liquor stores and rape a whole convent and still not get 150 years. With a little bit of good lawyer-ing, a history of child abuse in the family, and good behavior in the big house, you’d be back on the street in 18 months.
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Faber & Greenspan: Shills for Fed Snake Oil on Deflation and Hyperinflation / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Adrian_Ash
"Just how can the Fed credibly promise to be irresponsible...?"
HERE'S A THOUGHT – that tiny handful of investors and analysts warning how Fed policy risks hyper-inflation are in fact doing the central bank's work.
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Is the U.S. Fed Juicing the Stock Market? / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Mike_Whitney
Why has the stock market been on a 3-month tear when the economy is undergoing the worst economic contraction since the Great Depression? The S&P 500 has shot up 40% from its low on March 9 and the Dow Jones Industrials have followed close behind. Is this a typical bear market rally or is the invisible hand of the Fed goosing the markets?
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Goldman Sachs The Fourth Branch of the U.S. Government / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Graham_Summers
Quietly and almost unnoticed by most Americans, the US Federal Government introduced a fourth branch to its political structure in 2006. As you know we already had three branches, they are:
Monday, June 29, 2009
CNBC Admits to Manipulated Market that Continues To Be Propped Up By Government Intervention And Manipulation / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Readers of my articles and those of other authors on this site will have long come to know that CNBC lacks any credibility as it continued to pump out bullish market propaganda in the face of the severest bear market since the 1930's, whilst at the same time engaging in the re-writing of history on the channels past market calls as witnessed numerous times on Jim Cramer's Mad Money Show.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Fed Market Manipulation, Surmounting The Main Threat To Profits And Protection / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“Some people think that the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government Institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of these United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers; foreign and domestic speculators and swindlers; and rich and predatory money lenders.” - The Honorable Louis McFadden, Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee in the 1930s
Friday, June 26, 2009
The Source of the Current Economic Crisis: "A Chicago State of Mind" / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Global_Research
Maidhc Ó'Cathail writes: Worried about the global economic crisis? It’s all in your head, says a leading financial expert.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
U.S. Financial System, The Audacity of CHANGE (Part 1) / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Mike_Stathis
Ever since (finally) acknowledging the problems within the real estate and banking industries, several historic actions have been taken by Washington, Wall Street, the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury – all in desperation.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
"Stock Shock" Movie Exposes Wall Sreet Corruption and Inept Regulation / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Submissions
“STOCK SHOCK” is the movie sending shock-waves through America’s financial centers, exposing the dark underbelly of America’s worst stock market sharks, laying out the sordid financial schemes that led to America’s economic collapse in early 2009.
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Monday, June 15, 2009
Manipulated Bond & Stocks Markets / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Captain_Hook
As suspected last week, mutual and hedge fund managers could not resist the temptation to push stocks higher in month end window dressing given the opportunity, so they did. And I wouldn’t doubt for a minute the bureaucracy’s price managers were told to make stocks look good at week’s end because of Geithnier’s trip to China, where he is on his first official US paper selling junket. There’s really no other explanation for why stocks mysteriously surged at the close on Friday due to futures buying. (Later Monday we found out it was broker related buying to aid their secondary issues the following week.)
Friday, June 12, 2009
The Bush Doctrine, Economic Warfare and Your Investment Portfolio / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Rob_Kirby
Let us be clear, that in the aftermath of 9/11, American policy vis-à-vis its relations with the rest of the world changed forever under the aegis of the Bush Doctrine:
Friday, June 12, 2009
How to Forecast Stock and Commodity Asset Prices / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Adrian_Ash
Pick a Number...Any Number - "We are entering upon waters for which I have no chart and in which I therefore feel myself an utterly incompetent pilot." – James Warburg of the banking dynasty, resigning as President Roosevelt's monetary advisor, 1933
Friday, May 29, 2009
How Manipulated Financial Markets Really Work / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Stephen_Lendman
Wall Street's mantra is that markets move randomly and reflect the collective wisdom of investors. The truth is quite opposite. The government's visible hand and insiders control markets and manipulate them up or down for profit - all of them, including stocks, bonds, commodities and currencies.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Banking and Finance "Over the Rainbow" Smoke and Mirrors / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Stephen_Lendman
This writer just completed a six-part series on Ellen Brown's remarkable 2007 book titled "Web of Debt." This article follows from it by picking up on the theme she struck, using L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" as a combination parable, monetary allegory, and political manifesto for change at a time it's most needed.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Frauds R' Us: The Scams and Crimes of Wall Street / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Submissions
Danny Schechter writes: So many of us know in detail about all the false warnings and exaggerated claims that were used to justify the war in Iraq. By now, six years later, and after many books, reports, news stories and films (hopefully including my two books and film, Weapons of Mass Deception), we see the pattern of lies and deception. We realize that a fraud was committed against the American people and see what its consequences have been for the people of this country, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Banksters Remain Firmly in Charge of the "New" Wall Street / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: LewRockwell
Wall Street wants to regain your trust. Mutual fund managers, stockbrokers, Wall Street executives, and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) want Americans to keep the faith that buying and holding stocks, for the long term, is a key to building personal wealth. This is a tough sell considering Americans have watched their 401(k)s become 201(k)s. Not to worry says the laughable SEC, they’ve got your back covered.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Global Systemic Financial Crisis Surrealism at the Heart of Stock Market Trends / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Global_Research
GEAB writes: The financial surrealism which has been at the heart of stock market trends, financial indicators and political commentaries in the past two months, is in fact the swan song of the referential framework within which the world has lived since 1945.
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Misleading Jobless Claims Economic Data and Recessions / Economics / Market Manipulation
By: Tim_Iacono
One of the many "green shoots" that has popped up recently for the U.S. economy is the possible peaking of weekly jobless claims, what has been increasingly referred to as a "reliable" indicator for the end of recessions since 1967 when this data was first collected. The chart below, similar to the one published by CR in this item from a couple weeks ago shows the correlation.
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Are The Financial Markets Addicted to Deception? / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: T_Anthony_Michael
The current self destruction of Crony Cowboy Capitalism has struck a death blow to the Anglo-American Corpocracy. This in turn will result in the long awaited demise of UK-US Imperialism and, ultimately, cause the downfall of the British/American Empire. The consequent deterioration of Civil Society by way of the ongoing financial/economic, political/social and moral/religious bankruptcy will lead to the inevitable collapse and dissolution of Western Civilization as we know it.
Saturday, May 02, 2009
Wall Street Banks Trying to Rig Stress Test Results / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Global_Research
New York, New York: Dick Durbin knows his way around the Senate. He’s been there a long time, long enough to know how things really work. Over the years, the man from Illinois has come to realize that it’s not the elected officials who are in charge. Last week, he said it was the bankers “who run the place” acknowledging that Senators may be in office, but not necessarily in power.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Stocks Rise on G20 and FASB Hopes, Can Pigs Really Fly? / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Rob_Kirby
The Fed / Treasury first announced that banks would be subject to stress tests back on Feb. 10, 2009. This WSJ account is the earliest mention we’ve been able to find:
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Citigroup Stock Price Spread Market Manipulation Conspiracy or Free Market? / Companies / Market Manipulation
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: BEIJING, PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA - From my vantage point here in Beijing this week, I find my mind drifting this morning closer to home and specifically back to Citigroup Inc. (C).
Monday, April 20, 2009
Big Bank Bogus Profits, Massive Public and Investor Deception / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Money_and_Markets
Martin Weiss writes: A big bank CEO on a mission to deceive the public doesn’t have to tell outright lies. He can con people just as easily by using “perfectly legal” tricks, shams, and accounting ruses.
First, I’ll give you the big-picture facts. Then, I’ll show you how big U.S. banks are painting lipstick on some of the fattest pigs ever raised.
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
Goldman Sachs Tries to Shut Down Financial Blogger Mike Morgan / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Mike_Whitney
Mike Morgan is a registered investment adviser and a scrappy shoot-from-the-hip guy who doesn't mince his words. Recently Morgan has come under fire from investment giant Goldman Sachs for his hard-hitting web site "Facts about Goldman Sachs". Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Socialism and Wall Streets Quest to Seperate People from their Money / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Submissions
"History is littered with post-crisis regulations. If there are undue restrictions on the operations of businesses, they may view it to be their job to get around them, and you sow the seeds of the next crisis."
– Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment analyst, CharlesSchwab & Co., a leading US provider of investment services. 1 Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, April 05, 2009
America's Financial Oligarchy Is Still in Control / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Lorimer_Wilson
“The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States . One of the most alarming is that the finance industry has effectively captured our government”, says Simon Johnson, a chief economist with the International Monetary Fund in 2007 and 2008. In an article entitled “The Quiet Coup” in the May, 2009 issue of the Atlantic magazine he (with James Kwak) goes on to say that “if the IMF's staff could speak freely about the U.S., it would tell us what it tells all countries in this situation: recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy that is blocking essential reform and if we are to prevent a true depression, we're running out of time”. Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, April 04, 2009
Dow Jones the Manipulated Stock Market Index / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: John_Mauldin
What About the Original Dow 30 Stocks?
Adding and Subtracting Value
The Original Dow 30 Components
A Few Thoughts from Richard Russell
How to Succeed at Writing
Conversations on Banks
Tonight (Saturday) some 450 people will come together in San Diego to honor Richard Russell, who has been writing the Dow Theory Letter for over 50 years. In that spirit, in today's letter we are going to look deep inside the Dow, back to its very roots. The Dow is a price-weighted index as opposed to a cap-weighted index. Does that make a difference in performance? Specifically, does it affect how the Dow has performed since it was expanded to 30 names in 1928? There are some real surprises we have found, and I think you will find this letter very interesting.
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Monday, March 16, 2009
Who is Really Making Money? Part III / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Mike_Stathis
In Part II of this series, I discussed how Don Luskin serves as one of the biggest Wall Street hacks on TV. This is specifically why Larry Kudlow has him on his pro-Wall Street, neo-conservatism show. I demonstrated just how dedicated Luskin is towards this mission by discussing his ever so timely op-ed in the Washington Post. So let me finish where I left off.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, March 12, 2009
“Watch TV Make Money” Who is Really Making Money? Part II / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Mike_Stathis
Let me continue where I left off from Part I of this series. Kudlow has my book, as does Cramer and hundreds of other useless media clowns and shills. And they've had it for nearly two years, giving them more than ample time to realize what to expect. Yet, they continue to air clowns with terrible track records, whose sole purpose is to fool investors. And when they feel the need to admit problems, they air snake-oil salesmen who have been predicting doom for over a decade. In either case, they don't air credible experts with proven track records. Instead, they interview guys with agendas. Guys who will be preaching doom twenty years from now because that's their marketing pitch. The media also interviews guys in the “club” – guys like Peter Schiff who they know won't say something to draw attention to financial industry executives as the blame for this mess. These are the guys who agree to play by the media's rules in order to protect their agendas. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
CNBC Jim Cramer Repetitive Bear Market Bottom Wrong Calls / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Nadeem_Walayat
"He Has No Idea, NO IDEA, of how Bad his Market Calls are" - This article continues on from where the last one left off ( Why Watching CNBC Could Destroy Your Portfolio) in the deconstruction of CNBC talking bobble heads repeatedly bullish market calls whilst the stocks bear market continued to rage, that continued to destroy the value of CNBC viewers portfolios. This article focus's CNBC's chief stock picking guru, Jim Cramer's market calls against actual outcomes which will hopefully prevent the further destruction of portfolio values. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
The Great American Pump And Dump Fraud / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: David_Haas
Here is a useful definition straight from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) web page which describes several different types of scams investors need to be wary of. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Inflation Statistics Manipulation: The Goldsmiths Part XXIX / Economics / Market Manipulation
By: Robert_Bradshaw
Being an old man, and often living on a small social security check, it was logical that I would take an interest in the US government manipulation of the so-called inflation rate (from the CPI) since it affects the Cost of Living (COLA) payments due social security recipients and most other retirees.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
U.S. and China Play Currency Manipulation Chicken Game / Currencies / Market Manipulation
By: Axel_Merk
“China is manipulating its currency,” proclaims incoming Treasury Secretary Geithner. Talking about “manipulation” is helpful only if one's intent is to impress a local and insult a foreign audience. More productive may be plain talk - the U.S. and China could issue a joint statement along the lines of: “China and the U.S. agree that both will act in their respective self-interest in setting exchange rate policy.” Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Dow Jones Industrial Averages Index Price Anomaly / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: David_Urban
Over the last week, a number of articles were written about the distortions in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). Because of the collapse of the financial sector the DJIA, a price-weighted index, has become distorted. In a price-weighted index, each stock price is divided by a divisor to determine its price makeup within the index. Normally this is not a major problem but as of the closing bell on Monday, January 26th, four stocks trade below $10 per share and nine stocks trade below $20 per share. This interesting anomaly deserves a closer look.Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Financial Crisis TARP Bailouts and Dow Jones Index Manipulation / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: John_Mauldin
- Stocks for the Long Run and Other Myths
- Mister Softee is Only Worth 136 Dow Points
- Nash-Kelvinator, Studebaker, and Other US Giants
- TARP 3 and 4 Are on the Way
What does it mean for Citigroup to be at $3? As it turns out, it distorts the information we think we are getting from the Dow Jones Industrial Index. And more TARP money is surely in our future, and far more than anyone in authority is now suggesting. This week's letter will cover both topics and a little more. I think you will find it interesting.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Wall Street's Rigged Casino / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Jennifer_Barry
Last year was certainly a turbulent one for investors. Not only did good assets and companies sell off with bad, but the very integrity of the U.S. markets was brought into question. Financial firms spend millions of dollars convincing the average citizen that investing in stocks is necessary and prudent, yet the playing field is far from level. Fraud, naked shorting and other forms of manipulation are now endemic to the American markets. As Overstock's lawyer, John O'Quinn points out, “You have more chance to be treated fairly in a casino in Vegas.” How can you invest if you can't trust the system? Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, January 12, 2009
Financial System in Serious Trouble, Investment Gods Are Angry / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Steve_Selengut
The Working Capital Model (WCM) is an historically new methodology, but with roots deeply imbedded in the building blocks of capitalism, and financial psychology--- if there actually is such a thing.
The earliest forms of capitalism sprung from ancient Roman mercantilism, which involved the production of goods and their distribution to people or countries around the Mediterranean.
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Friday, January 09, 2009
Fraudulent Commodity Market Manipulations Vs Money Printing / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: Rob_Kirby
In Fraud We Trust - Amazing, isn't it, how times have changed? Just [Wed.] this morning, President elect Barack Obama stood before microphones and television cameras and told the world that his administration was set to inherit an annual deficit of 1.2 TRILLION dollars. He went on to add that the fiscal 2009 amount did not even include “his” stimulus plan, rumored to be as much as an additional TRILLION dollars, reportedly geared toward infrastructure spending, would be required to “jump start” the U.S. economy. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, November 21, 2008
Manipulated Inflation Statistics An Undisclosed Act of Treason / Economics / Market Manipulation
By: Rob_Kirby
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the work of John Williams of Shadow Government Statistics fame; this missive should prove to be quite an eye opener. For those who are familiar with Williams' work – this is nothing more than logical extension[s] and conclusions.
Walter J. "John" Williams was born in 1949. He received an A.B. in Economics, ***** laude, from Dartmouth College in 1971, and was awarded a M.B.A. from Dartmouth 's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration in 1972, where he was named an Edward Tuck Scholar. During his career as a consulting economist, John has worked with individuals as well as Fortune 500 companies.
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Friday, November 07, 2008
J.P. Morgan Loving Their Market Manipulation Handiwork / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Rob_Kirby
The following research paper was compiled as the basis for a radio interview with Patrick Timpone at One Radio Network .
Morgan is the quintessential leviathan in the Interest Rate arena through their obscenely sized Medium-Term Interest Rate Swap book which stood at 59 Trillion at June 30, 2008 .
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Greenspan the Maestro vs. the Market / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Ayn_Rand
Alex Epstein writes: Alan Greenspan claims that the free market failed to prevent the financial crisis, and that he is “shocked” that his professed “free-market ideology” turned out to contain a “flaw.”
But why should we take him seriously? Greenspan, while once associated with laissez-faire philosopher Ayn Rand, hasn't advocated genuinely free markets for decades. Remember, this is a man who for two decades reveled in being, as the New York Times put it, “the infallible maestro of the financial system.”
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Friday, October 31, 2008
Hedge Fund Managers in Tears as Volkswagen Triggers Short-Squeeze / Companies / Market Manipulation
By: Adrian_Ash
"I have hedge fund managers literally in tears on the phone..." – a London broker, quoted this week
ODD THINGS were happening to the price of Volkswagen – the world's third-largest auto-maker – long before it leapt 187% higher inside two days at the end of October. For a brief moment, and amid the worst-ever stock market rout in history, VW became the planet's most highly-valued corporation bar none at the end of October.
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
Comex Gold and Silver Markets Hurtling Towards Default / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: Jim_Willie_CB
The COMEX gold & silver markets are each hurtling down a dangerous path toward default. The artificial paper price has created enormous physical demand, and hampered supply production, if not delivery. The gap between the JPMorgan-led corrupted phony paper price and the legitimate physical price in actual trading markets has grown sharply, enough to force a breakdown like in any distorted market. When December contracts in gold & silver are demanded to be satisfied via delivery of the metal, it will be clear that the COMEX is running a scam. A default is highly likely. Of course, they can continue to deny contract holders the right to benefit from delivery, as they have been doing for months to ‘Non-Economic Customers' but soon the ‘Commercial Customers' will be defrauded. Arrests are warranted. We will see how this corruption unfolds. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Gold Market Dis-Information Specialists Ply Their Trade / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: Rob_Kirby
Tim Gardiner, president and CEO, Mitsui & Co. Precious Metals Inc. appeared on Canada's Business News Network [BNN] and – in a ridiculous attempt to explain the recent demolishing of the gold price - made the claim that demand for gold was down and, “the only reason for physical shortages of gold products at retail was ‘logistical' and due to a shortage of ‘blanks' from which the coins are stamped”. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, October 10, 2008
Gold Price Manipulation- Bear Stearns Murdered at the Golden Gates / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: Rob_Kirby
Much has already been written about the untimely demise of investment bank Bear Stearns. Most, if not all, that has been written to date – deals with issues related to equities / expiring options – or the share price.
Recently, new information has come to light which allows us to forensically examine the demise of Bear Stearns from a completely different angle – GOLD .
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Friday, October 03, 2008
Manipulation of Gold and Commodity Prices to Prevent Inflation and Higher Interest Rates / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: Rob_Kirby
The Invisible Hand and
the Pox Known as Usury - First, from Wikipedia, a little background on usury :
Usury (pronounced /ˈjuːʒəri/ , comes from the Medieval Latin usuria , "interest" or "excessive interest", from the Latin usura "interest") originally meant the charging of interest on loans. After countries legislated to limit the rate of interest on loans, usury came to mean the interest above the lawful rate. In common usage today, the word means the charging of unreasonable or relatively high rates of interest…..
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Friday, October 03, 2008
Time for Investors to Panic! SEC Abandons Sound Accounting Practices / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Andrew_Butter
The SEC about-face on Mark to Market…the lunacy continues. This means it's time to run away.
I was not the only one who has been saying that the accountancy rules that mandated Mark to Market valuation of assets caused the Credit Crisis. And that this was making things worse.
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
The Pre-Planned Financial / Economic 9-11 of 2008? / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: T_Anthony_Michael
WHAT: A pre-planned collapse of the US (and global) financial and economic systems.
WHO: The same characters who perpetrated the original 911.
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Saturday, September 20, 2008
The Markets and Government Manipulation / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Submissions
Walter J. Burien writes: Let's Talk
Many people over the years have commented to me per the markets: "This is going to definitely happen" and then: " This is unbelievable that this has happened" as they watched their account balances flush down the toilet.
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Thursday, September 04, 2008
Systemic Distrust and GATA Gold Conspiracy Hype / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: Mike_Shedlock
Following is a well written email from "CP" on reasons why someone might be inclined to believe in various conspiracy theories. Let's take a look at what "CP" has to say. From CP:
I always enjoy your writing and am a subscriber to someone I know you respect, and that is Steve Saville. He too does not see any collusion in the markets.
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Sunday, August 31, 2008
Fed Imposes Financial Sector Imperialism over US Economy / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Mike_Whitney
Michael Hudson: "Greenspan saw his job as a cheerleader for people who were able to get rich fast; sort of like a pilot fish for sharks" Mike Whitney Interviews Michael Hudson
1 Mike Whitney: The United States current account deficit is roughly $700 billion. That is enough "borrowed" capital to pay the yearly $120 billion cost of the war in Iraq, the entire $450 billion Pentagon budget, and Bush's tax cuts for the rich. Why does the rest of the world keep financing America's militarism via the current account deficit or is it just the unavoidable consequence of currency deregulation, "dollar hegemony" and globalization?
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Friday, August 29, 2008
Psychology of Financial Markets Conspiracy Theories / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Mike_Shedlock
In recent posts I have taken a look at various conspiracy theories on the rise of the dollar, the shortage of silver, and the manipulation of gold. Here is a synopsis. (Warning, some of these are very lengthy) I discussed US dollar manipulation claims in
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Thursday, August 28, 2008
Financial Markets Subterfuge Illusion and The Art Of Misdirection / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Captain_Hook
Subterfuge, illusion, and misdirection – this is what the bureaucracy perpetuates on the public every day. Please look over here at the giveaways and presents we have for you while we continue to defraud your children out of a future – all for the greater good you know. Not surprisingly then, the net result of all this is an increasingly debased society, which accounts for our willingness to allow the same for the currency. Quite literally, one couldn't make this stuff up if you tried, such supposedly wealthy and educated people willing to give up their liberties so easily, but at the same time this has all happened before (think Rome – Bread And Circuses), just not on this scale. And nobody wants to touch the subject matter because it's just that ugly, a dark reflection on what we have become. A society of gamblers and drug addicts who need a variety of fix every day just to get by. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, August 14, 2008
US Deceptive Q2 GDP Based on Fraudulent Price Deflator / Economics / Market Manipulation
By: Jim_Willie_CB
It is hard to find much positive regarding the gold trade lately. The attacks have been multi-faceted during the weak late summer season. So resort to something of value: THE TRUTH. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “The greatest homage one can pay to the truth is to tell it.” When the US financial lattice work was showing clear signals of near total destruction, if not simple decimation, when USGovt bailouts seemed certain to cost in the trillion$ from mortgage agency rescues and FHA mortgage loan mulligans (second chance shot in golf), when US banks seemed caught in a race to raise more cash for equity from friendly foreign fools who fail to read the news, when the USEconomic recession has been turning broad and deep, when General Motors and Ford seem caught managing their death process toward a certain bankruptcy, THE USGOVT NEEDED A REALLY GOOD LIE FROM WHICH TO BUILD A DOLLAR BOUNCE. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, August 04, 2008
How Washington is Fooling You: Manipulated Employment Data / Economics / Market Manipulation
By: Mike_Stathis
Shell Game - The government and related agencies are responsible for reporting the nation's economic data. Thus, they're in the driver's seat to manipulate this data, while dumping so much of it onto consumers that they can't possibly analyze what's really going on. Each day, “critical” economic numbers are released by one or more agencies connected to Washington . And consumers look to Wall Street and the media to make heads or tails of this data. Of course, Wall Street is always going to paint a rosier picture for its own benefit. Meanwhile, the mainstream media merely serves as a puppet for Wall Street. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Washington Manipulation of GDP Data to Hide Recessions / Economics / Market Manipulation
By: Mike_Stathis
I continue where I left off – discussing just a few of the ways Washington tries to fool us by its misuse and manipulation of data. Washington likes to remind critics that Americans enjoy the highest living standard in the world. As evidence of this, government “experts” discuss statistics such as GDP growth, employment, wealth, income and wage growth, and other economic data without defining exactly what they are referring to or explaining all the assumptions used. In Part 1 of this series, we saw how hedonics can alter GDP and inflation data. Here we look at some additional problems with GDP. After you read this piece, I hope you will agree that the misuse of GDP data as an indicator of economic strength has been one of the biggest errors made in the field of U.S. economics. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Dark Investment Pools May Render Traditional Market Analysis Ineffective / Companies / Market Manipulation
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes:"Why don't my traditional analytics work as well anymore?"
It's a question I get a lot. But chances are, it's not your analytics that have broken down. It's your execution that's not keeping up.
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Silver Futures Market Exchange Rules Under an Emergency / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: David_Morgan
In last week's column I presented some fallacies that pertain to the silver market. The feedback I received was mixed; most was positive but some was negative, proclaiming that I was implying the "shorts" could not lose and investing in silver was almost hopeless.
This is not my studied position at all. In fact it has been my conviction from the time I began writing about the silver market that silver is one of the best investments to be made, from the year 2000 to present, and I still maintain that the physical silver and gold markets are the foundational investments that must be owned by any serious precious metals investor.
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Paulson and Bernanke Bailout Friends on Wall Street, a Disaster for US Tax Payers / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Money_Morning
Jason Simpkins writes: Standing on the steps of the U.S. Treasury building across the street from the White House, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson asked Congress for the power to prop up Fannie Mae ( FNM ) and Freddie Mac ( FRE ), the two failing mortgage giants involved with nearly half of the $12 trillion U.S. mortgage market.
"The president has asked me to work with Congress to act on this plan immediately," Paulson said Sunday. "Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac play a central role in our housing finance system and must continue to do so in their current form as shareholder-owned companies. Their support for the housing market is particularly important as we work through the current housing correction."
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
Are Dark Pools Destined to be the Next Financial Black Hole? / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Keith_Fitz-Gerald
We can almost hear that ominous " Jaws " theme music in the background and can see that huge dorsal fin as it slices threateningly through the water - knowing full well that the real terror is hidden beneath the water's surface.
But this time around, it's not a "Great White" that's sparking our fears; it's a well-capitalized and broadly based series of secret stock exchanges known as " Dark Pools of Liquidity ," "Dark Liquidity," or just "Dark Pools."
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Monday, June 30, 2008
Financial Authorities Acting Above The Law / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: Captain_Hook
Above the law – that's where financial authorities, politicos, and bureaucrats think they are – a farce justified on the premise extreme times justify extreme measures. Moreover, they routinely lie and cheat the public out their savings to protect their own positions, as opposed to living up to oath's of office and serving the public's interest. Some may say this has always been true, and perhaps this is the case, even within our modern era of globalization, technological advancement, and modern society. And if you so take a close look at it, things have been getting worse in this respect since Nixon dropped the Gold Standard in 1971, along with a loss of freedom and liberties. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, June 23, 2008
Quarterly Window Dressing- A Recurrent Wall Street Scam / Portfolio / Market Manipulation
By: Steve_Selengut
"The time has come the walrus said, to talk of many things": Of corrections--portfolios--- and window dressing--- of market cycles--- wizards--- and reality.Quarterly portfolio window dressing is one of many immortal Jaberwock-like creatures that roam the granite canyons of the Manhattan triangle, sending inappropriate signals to unwary investors and media spokespersons. Many of you, like the unsuspecting young oysters in the Lewis Carroll classic, are responding to the daily news nonsense with fear instead of embracing the new opportunities that are surely right there, cloaked, just beyond your short-term vision field.
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Why Mark-to-Market is Bad News for Shareholders / Companies / Market Manipulation
By: Martin_Hutchinson
“When I use a word” said Humpty Dumpty in Lewis Carroll's “ Through the Looking-Glass ,” “it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.”
It has always been the ambition of Wall Street to bring its financial statements under a similar type of discipline. And if the The Institute for International Finance Inc.'s new proposal on “mark-to-market” accounting is implemented, Wall Street will have achieved this objective.
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008
The Real US Economic Misery Index / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Money_and_Markets
Nilus Mattive writes: Santa Barbara is hardly the picture of poverty. Oprah's mansion is there, and the city's median house is worth a cool million. Heck, I proposed to my wife there — we ate some tremendous sushi on State Street and relished in the city's upscale vibe.
So imagine my surprise when I learned that 12 of Santa Barbara's parking lots have recently been converted into nightly homeless shelters!
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Thursday, May 29, 2008
Manipulated Economic Statistics and the Battle for Citizenry Perceptions / Economics / Market Manipulation
By: John_Browne
With consumer confidence now testing generational lows, our politicians are never the less continuously assuring us that the economy is strong, and that there is no cause for worry.
Although it is standard procedure for governments to soothe their citizenry with placebo politics in order to avoid panic and uprising, there is a line after which such a campaign is counterproductive. In fact, misleading statements about financial security are potentially dangerous to the country's long term economic well being, and potentially toxic to investors.
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Monday, May 19, 2008
Central Bankers Art of Misdirection / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: Captain_Hook
Central planers and Wall Street prestidigitators are getting better at having people concentrate on the wrong things at the wrong times in my opinion. In terms of present circumstances are concerned, we are referring to their ability to have the street focused on a manufactured rally in the dollar ($), while the effects of their previous inflation efforts run rampant throughout commodity markets, all the while having no material impact on improving the credit crisis, which is of course justification for printing the copious amounts of fiat currency they enjoy so much. What's worse, this latest round of misdirection, a technique used by magicians in case you are unaware, will likely only make the effects of rapid monetary inflation worse over time as more will be needed, despite present claims that the worst of the crisis is over , and that it's onward and upwards from here. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, April 25, 2008
Government Intervention Distorts Market Prices and Results in Inflation / Interest-Rates / Market Manipulation
By: Peter_Schiff
Those unfamiliar with marketplace dynamics may not recognize how government activity has created price distortions across our economy. But when these chains fail to restrain the market, the underlying forces become easier to see.
Much as government mandated easy credit propelled home prices to bubble levels, similar forces pushed college tuitions up to the stratosphere. Both systems are currently breaking down along similar lines.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Protect Your Wealth from Wall Street Liars / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Jim_Willie_CB
Few seem to remember that Wall Street is not a non-profit community driven by altruism or any sense of service. They would gladly cheat you out of your entire life savings if their actions were legal, or at least not prosecuted. In the last two to three years, the lies, deception, misdirection, false reporting, corruption, and grand fraud will be the topic of historical accounts for decades. When returning on my flights from another successful Cambridge House gold conference, this in Calgary Alberta , many thoughts came to mind, jotted down while gazing at the natural beauty made up from cloud blankets with a sun guarding its lot. The sun and clouds care not at all about economic landscapes underneath, even if in turmoil. Whenever travels take me across national borders, nationalism, idealism, culture, and dreams come to mind. It seems pursuit of truth, clarity, and integrity has become negotiable, one and all in the United States . Its people are being stripped of so much. Perhaps this layout will be helpful. Routinely such matters are covered in the Hat Trick Letter reports. Gold & silver continue to do well to protect individuals and their wealth. Banks are no longer safe, an astonishing conclusion. Bonds are not safe, and neither are money market funds!!!Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, April 14, 2008
Greenspan- He Did It His Way (Unfortunately) / Interest-Rates / Market Manipulation
By: Brady_Willett
Greenspan did another media tour last week, this time defending his legacy in the Financial Times , Wall Street Journal , and on CNBC Television . Unfortunately the story from Greenspan was much the same: he reiterated that the financial markets are best left to self-regulate, and that investors around the world (not the Fed) took control of long-term interest rates thus leading to the U.S. housing bubble. Astonishingly, Greenspan added, “I have no regrets on any of the Federal Reserve policies that we initiated back then…' and ‘I don't remember a case when the process by which the decision making at the Federal Reserve failed.' Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Economic Data and Statistics- Distortions, Deceptions and Outright Lies / Economics / Market Manipulation
By: Money_and_Markets
Martin Weiss writes: Beware.
The greatest threat to your financial future is not the danger you see or the beast you know. It stems from all those realities that you don't see or don't know.
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Friday, April 04, 2008
US Government Assault on the Free Markets / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Peter_Schiff
Those blindsided by the recent financial meltdown are now loudly blaming the free market for its failure to police its own excesses, and are calling for greater regulation to prevent future disasters. But for those who clearly observed the problems developing (in high definition slow motion) the blame can be directed squarely at the policies of the Greenspan/Bernanke Federal Reserve. As has been the case countless times in history, the free market will now pay the price for government incompetence. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Paulson's Civic Robbery To Finance Hyper Inflation / Economics / Market Manipulation
By: John_Browne
Monday, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson announced the laying of the government's foundation stone for the next big financial bubble, heralding an era of hyperinflation and probable further runs on the U.S. dollar.
Of course, like most politics, there is usually a ‘good' reason and a ‘real' reason for actions. Today's announcement was no exception.
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Financial Markets Investing- Exploring All The Possibilities / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Captain_Hook
These are definitely interesting times we live in, and the markets are also in this category from a predictive standpoint. Many are now dependent on the stock market's performance, so the stakes are high on numerous fronts. And for this reason you not only have participants remaining invested far past what would have historically been viewed as ‘prudent', but master planners in our society feel justified in arriving at a desired outcome no matter the means. This of course often involves market manipulation in addition to a regular priming of the pump by influencing prices in the futures markets, which extends from currencies to foreign stock markets.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
IMF Selling 400 Tonnes of Mexican and Brazilian Gold as its Own! / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: Julian_DW_Phillips
There has been a lot of talk of late of potential sales of I.M.F. gold. The more we look at the subject, contrary to our previous view, the more likey it seems possible [not yet probable], but if it does happen, it will not happen again thereafter for solid reasons. If the sales do take place they will happen from September 2008 onwards.
It will still have to get past the U.S. Congress a most formidable and possibly insurmountable obstacle.
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008
America and the Myth of Free Markets / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Darryl_R_Schoon
Who's Been Goosing Goldilocks ?- The power of myth is extraordinary. Correctly applied, the ignorant will believe themselves enlightened and slaves will believe themselves free.
When credit markets began to unravel in the summer of 2007, central bankers and economists were surprised. In retrospect, they should not have been. Warnings of a speculative bubble were issued as soon as cheap credit began distorting housing prices in 2003. Denial, however, always trumps reason in the presence of profits—or ulterior motive in the case of Greenspan.
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Saturday, January 26, 2008
Fed Duped by Rogue Trader and the Destruction of Bond Insurers / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: John_Mauldin
- What Does the Fed Really Know?
- Fed's Folly: Fooled by Flawed Futures?
- Brother, Can You Spare a Billion?
- $5 Billion a Quarter
- Planes, Trains, and Santa Barbara
- And Charlie Wilson's War
It had been my original intention to devote this week's letter to the view from Europe, as I have been here for the last week, but events have changed that goal. The Federal Reserve made a very rare inter-meeting rate cut of 75 basis points this week, after the worldwide markets were in turmoil. Many pundits suggest the Fed was responding to the worldwide collapse in stock prices. This week we examine that suggestion, and I will offer an alternative explanation. I am beginning this letter in a London subway train. Quickly, the consensus wherever I go seems to be that Europe and the United Kingdom are also headed into recession. There is a lot of interesting ground to cover, so let's get started.
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Friday, January 25, 2008
The US Fed, Societe Generale Rogue Trader, William Poole, and Black Swans / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: David_Urban
On Tuesday morning, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 75 basis points in response to a worldwide selloff. The selloff started on mounting fears that the United States has fallen into a recession. The mass fear became so great that the Federal Reserve felt compelled to act before next week's meeting in an attempt to restore confidence in the markets. In the press release, one governor, William Poole from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis voted against a move before next week's meeting. While his actions may leave some people scratching their heads, one needs to go to the website ( http://stlouisfed.org/default.cfm ), note the commentary on the left side of the page, and read the following speech ( http://stlouisfed.org/publications/re/2008/a/pages/inflation.html ).Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Greenspan's Grand Design To Serve the Money Trust - Financial Tsunami Part III / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: F_William_Engdahl
The Long-Term Greenspan Agenda
Seven years of Volcker monetary “shock therapy” had ignited a payments crisis across the Third World . Billions of dollars in recycled petrodollar debts loaned by major New York and London banks to finance oil imports after the oil price rises of the 1970's, suddenly became non-payable.
The stage was now set for the next phase in the Rockefeller financial deregulation agenda. It was to come in the form of a revolution in the very nature of what would be considered money—the Greenspan “New Finance” Revolution.
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Thursday, January 17, 2008
Casino Royale Investment Markets - The House Always Wins? / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Brian_Bloom
Let there be no misunderstanding. The “investment” markets across the globe have become like casinos and, in trying to make a buck in any of these markets, you are betting against the house. If you want commodity prices in general to rise, and the gold price in particular to rise, you can be sure that the house wants these prices to fall. If you want the price of industrial equities to fall, you can be sure that the house wants them to rise. Who will pocket the most winnings in this monstrous game of roulette? Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, December 21, 2007
Greed, Fear and Market Manipulation as Wall Street Bonuses Rise / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Andy_Sutton
Lessons of 2007 - Yesterday I had the opportunity to take a rather remarkable group of young people to a regional business competition. This was an actual competition, not one of these contrived events where everyone wins and hand wringing is out in full force. All in all, the group did rather well with one student winning her category, and two others placing 4th in a team event. For a group of 8 I was rather pleased. I also came to see the full scope of human emotion that ensued in the hours after the competition. The rest of us should be so lucky to have the life experience that transpired yesterday although I didn't realize it myself until those early hours of the morning when the world is silent and still and permits us time for reflection.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Feds Actions Delaying Stock Market Downtrend / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Brian_Bloom
Technically, the Fed's actions are still not driving the market to the upside. The best that could be claimed is the downside is being delayed.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Stock Market Index Ramped Higher by Vested Interests Pre Fed Rate Cut / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Brian_Bloom
The chart below provides evidence that the industrial equity market was “ramped” by vested interests in anticipation of the Fed rate decision.
Note how, following the Fed decision, the Dow Jones fell back below the intersection of the two trendlines – which is roughly where the technical resistance was before it was ramped.
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Saturday, December 08, 2007
Wall Street Ponzi Scheme - Confidence, Perception and the Ideal Investment Solution / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: David_Morgan
My struggle in this ponzi scheme of Wall Street Finance goes much deeper. I ultimately ask myself where is this all headed. I could write a book on the daily manipulations and tactics that are used to keep this game going. But I want to take this into another direction. One of the reasons to invest to precious metals centers on the actions and thoughts of the so-called men in charge of the USA. I believe there is an elite class that really pulls the levers of this country, and the politicians are simply the tools, which they use as cover. I do not want to sound like an alarmist or a conspiracist. I want you to judge the facts and make your own decision.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Warning - Don't Bet Against the Dow Jones Stock Market Index's Growth Spiral / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Investors should realise one important factor about the Dow 30 stock market index and other similar general multi-sector indices that are made up of a limited number of stocks. The Indices are designed to exhibit the long-term inflationary growth spirals. In that in the long-run the indices will always move to a new high! Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, December 03, 2007
Goldman Sachs Recommendation to Sell Gold Based on Self-interest? / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: Gold_Investments
GoldGold was down $12.10 to $783.10 per ounce in New York on Friday and silver was down 25 cents to $13.98 per ounce. Gold showed strength in early trading in Asia and rallied to $792 but in early European trading it has given up these gains and has traded back down to $783.50 per ounce at 1200 GMT. Gold is trading at £379 GBP (down from £385) and €534 EUR (down from €540).
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Saturday, November 24, 2007
Drop In US Long Term Interest Rates Manipulated By Fed Open Market Operations / Interest-Rates / Market Manipulation
By: Alex_Wallenwein
Straight from the Horse's, Uhh ... Mouth Ben Bernanke told us five years ago he would inflate to no end. Now he's making good on his word.
Ever wondered why long term interest rates are so conveniently falling in sync with the official need to avoid troubled-loan ARMs to reset significantly higher in early 2008?
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Monday, November 05, 2007
Attempt at Manipulation of Ratings Agencies - Rubins Cube / Companies / Market Manipulation
By: Brady_Willett
On November 8, 2001 Robert Rubin called senior Treasury Department official Peter Fisher and asked him if he could tell the bond rating agencies to hold off on downgrading Enron. Mr. Rubin, who served as Treasury Secretary from 1995 to 1999, was clearly using his high-up contact(s) in an attempt to influence the supposedly non-biased rating agencies, and he was doing so because he worked for Citigroup, a large Enron creditor. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Goldman Sachs Manipulation of Commodity Prices - Gasoline and Crude Oil / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: Jim_Willie_CB
It is still open season on Goldman Sachs. Ditto for JP Morgan and the clique of Wall Street firms, who enjoy untold tremendous privilege. Well, Goldman is at it again, playing games, abusing their role, and making money, all legally. One should say, rather, all without prosecution. One puts life and career at risk when revealing the hidden actions of the military and security organizations running in this land. However, taking aim at the Wall Street bank sector parasites is deemed a harmless exercise, regarded much the same as a fly or mosquito flirting around the USGovt torso. The ugliest example of illicit publicly noticed activity by Goldman Sachs in my opinion was the late summer 2006 change to the GS Commodity Index. They lowered the unleaded gasoline weight from 9% to 2%, forcing the sale of $7 billion in gasoline contracts. Nevermind motive, focus on execution. With $100 billion in indexed funds invested in the GSCI, Goldman knew what would happen. Gasoline fell sharply in price. GSax profited heavily, all legal, not even a prosecutable violation. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, August 27, 2007
Market Efficiency Hokum / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Stephen_Lendman
You know the story triumphantly heard in the West. Markets work best when governments let them operate freely - unconstrained by rules, regulations and taxes about which noted economist Milton Friedman once said in an interview he was "in favor of cutting....under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible (because) the big problem is not taxes (but government) spending.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, August 27, 2007
ScotiaBank & Silver: Ted Butler's Call To Action / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: Ed_Steer
On August 21, 2007, silver analyst Ted Butler came out with one of his most important commentaries to date. I urge you to take the time to read it from one end to the other. Here's the GATA dispatch on Butler's essay ...Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, August 09, 2007
The “Plunge Protection Team” Working Overtime to Save US Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Gary_Dorsch
“Imagination is more important than knowledge”, the brilliant Albert Einstein used to say. Imagine for just a moment, that the Dow Jones Industrials has become a key instrument of national economic policy, and that by “actively managing” its direction, the government could impact the wealth of tens of millions of US households, and by extension, influence consumer confidence and spending.
Since the appointment of Henry Paulson to the helm at the US Treasury, the US stock market has always found a way to defy the law of gravity. During Paulson's short reign, the Dow Jones Industrials (DJI-30) broke an 80-year old record for the longest streak of gains with only three declining days in between. During the first seven months of his tenure, the S&P 500 did not decline by 2%, the second longest-period without a 2% correction since 1964.
The market savvy Treasury chief, who built a $730 million fortune at Goldman Sachs, is also the chairman of the Working Group on Financial Markets, commonly known as the Plunge Protection Team (PPT), created by Ronald Reagan to prevent a repeat of the Wall Street meltdown in October 1987. The PPT is empowered to intervene in stock index futures and the foreign currency markets in the event of a crash.
Friday, June 29, 2007
JP Morgan Derivatives Book and Manipulation of the Dow Theory Bullish Picture / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Brian_Bloom
The two charts of JP Morgan below show an anomaly which is potentially disturbing in context of other patterns.
The reason I honed in on these charts flows from the discussion regarding Bear Stearns that has emerged over the past week – regarding their packaging of Mortgage Backed Securities and Collateralised Debt Obligations. A discussion on this phenomenon can be found at http://www.321gold.com/editorials/tustain/tustain062307.html .
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Friday, March 23, 2007
Financial Markets Manipulation - The Rise of the Bernanke Put Option? / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Money_and_Markets
Mike Larson - Did you see that monster rally on Wednesday afternoon? The one that sent the Dow up more than 150 points in the blink of an eye? If you're wondering what caused it, I have an answer for you …
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke is trying out the “Greenspan put!”
Alan Greenspan, our last Fed Chairman, was notorious for solving market crises by lowering interest rates. In fact, the Wall Street crowd even dreamed up a nickname for this — the Greenspan put.
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