Category: Market Manipulation
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Alternative Explanation For S&P500 Rally Trim-Tabs Conspiracy Theory / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Andrew_Butter
A recent post on Zero Hedge suggested that the “Non-Stop Rally Since March”, could have had a covert helping hand:
Saturday, January 09, 2010
Is the Stock Market Rigged? / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Clif_Droke
I received an interesting comment from my previous commentary, “Prospects for Economic Recovery in 2010.” The basis of my claim that 2010 will witness some economic recovery was the “6-9 Month Rule” of Dow Theory fame. Simply stated, this rule says that a 6-to-9 month stock market recovery that follows a market decline and economic recession bodes well for an economic turnaround. Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, January 03, 2010
Is the Fed Juicing the Stock Market? / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Mike_Whitney
Is the Fed manipulating the stock market? TrimTabs CEO Charles Biderman seems to think so, and he makes a strong case for his theory in an article at zerohedge.com.
Biderman focuses his attention on the mystery surrounding the stock market's 9-month rally and asks, "Where is the money coming from?" After all, the market cap has increased by more than $6 trillion since March 9. That amount of money should be fairly easy to trace; right?
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs Trillions Deep In Derivatives or Dumbed-Down Reporting? / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Rob_Kirby
On December 29, 2009 The New York Post [josh.kosman@nypost.com] published an article titled, Deep in derivatives, where scribe Josh Kosman ‘took-a-shot’ at explaining the ABSURDITY of the bind boggling derivatives positions amassed by financial behemoths such as J.P. Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs. In an attempt to explain how dangerously systemically-interconnected derivatives makes ALL banks, Kosman began;
Monday, December 21, 2009
U.S. Government Caught in a Lie on Bogus Jobs Data / Economics / Market Manipulation
By: Captain_Hook
It’s no secret governments and our ruling elite (the bureaucracy) lie for their own benefit, and this has been increasingly prevalent for years now. Perhaps the most well known statistics in this respect center on the Employment Report, viewed as the central economic release of the month by most observers in that employment is seen as the core of the economy. In knowing this, and not forgetting governments lie to us in just about everything, it should be of no surprise then that John Williams of Shadow Government Statistics has been able to make a business out of reporting on irregularities and discrepancies in official statistics, where even though such fraudulent data was sufficient to spark a noticeable sell-off in commodities and precious metals last Friday via bogus jobs numbers, one knows this is more fiction than reality.
Monday, December 14, 2009
How to Profit Goldman Sachs Evil Genius / Companies / Market Manipulation
By: Money_Morning
Jon D. Markman writes: When references are made to the world's "oldest profession," I sometimes wonder if we're not exactly referring to market manipulation. In this country alone, market operators have been employing all sorts of market manipulations for more than 100 years.
What may surprise you is that most of it isn't illegal or even improper; in institutional circles, it's actually viewed as shrewd business.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Are We Heading for a Gigantic Economic Monetary Deflationary Collapse? / Economics / Market Manipulation
By: Robert_Bradshaw
When a top French Bank warns the French people that a gigantic economic/monetary/deflationary collapse could be very close, thinking people must wake up and take notice. This happened on or about Nov 19th in an article by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard from the London Telegraph. I read this prediction with interest from the Society Generale Bank in France. But the importance of this assertion is not only because this bank is near the top in thinking in the European Union, it is most assuredly a leading Rothschild controlled bank with much insider knowledge of what is coming down the pike.
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Friday, November 27, 2009
The Goldman Sachs Disease Is Spreading, 15 Signs of Metastasization / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: LewRockwell
In The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism Jack Bogle no longer sees Adam Smith's "invisible hand" driving "capitalism in a healthy, positive direction."
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Crunch Time for the Banking Cartel / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: DeepCaster_LLC
Who Wins the Great War? - “Just over a year ago, the United States underwent a seemingly radical change, seemingly overnight. Its financial system had been revealed as insolvent under the weight of huge liabilities and worthless assets. The government refused to allow all the bankrupt institutions to fail, and thus permit the market to do its job of purging the rot from the system.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Mishkin's Bubblenomics and the Crash of 2008 / Economics / Market Manipulation
By: Mike_Whitney
The Fed's monetary stimulus is driving the market higher. What started as a trickle has turned into a torrent buoying stocks and commodities on a river of liquidity. Oil has more than doubled in the last 8 months while stock indexes have gained 50 percent or more in the same period. Even the shunned homebuilders and battered financials have staged a comeback. Meanwhile, consumer credit continues to shrivel and the "real" rate of unemployment climbs inexorably towards 20 percent.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Should We Believe the GDP Economic Data? / Economics / Market Manipulation
By: Douglas_French
Third quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures were announced recently with that index rebounding to reflect that the US economy is growing again at a 3.5 percent rate. The financial talking heads rejoiced and investors continue to power the stock markets higher. Fed Chair Ben Bernanke even predicted that the recession was over when he told the Brookings Institute in mid-September, "From a technical perspective, the recession is very likely over at this point."
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Why is the Stock Market Rising While Unemployment is Soaring / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Washingtons_Blog
Daniel Gross points out that part of the reason that the American stock markets are going up even though unemployment is rising and the real economy suffering is because multinational corporations headquartered in the U.S. are experiencing strong sales abroad:
Monday, November 02, 2009
Government Statistics and Lies / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
There has been a lot of talk in Washington recently about senior citizens, mostly about how various healthcare reform models would help or hurt them. But there is another critical issue that has quietly devastated seniors financially over the last few decades. It concerns how the cost of living is calculated. How does the administration justify not giving a cost of living increase to Social Security recipients this year? According to the official Consumer Price Index calculation, life has gotten cheaper for the first time in decades. If the government can show statistically that the cost of living has gone down, not up, then they can make the case for not giving a cost of living increase to social security recipients. But does this match reality? Using older calculations of CPI, the cost of living has actually increased - by roughly 5%.
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
Fed Determined to Inflate Another Asset Bubble / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Mike_Larson
There goes oil, surging past $80-a-barrel. That’s up 150 percent from the December low, in case you’re keeping score.
Gasoline? Wholesale prices are up more than 40 cents a gallon in just under a month …
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Bernanke Guilty of Coercion and Market Manipulation / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Mike_Shedlock
In April Let the Criminal Indictments Begin: Paulson, Bernanke, Lewis I made the case that BAC chairman Lewis was guilty of fraud and Paulson was guilty of coercion in regards to the shotgun wedding between Bank of America and Merrill Lynch.
Monday, October 19, 2009
U.S. Treasury Controlled by Wall Street / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Bob_Chapman
Some of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s closest aides, none of whom faced Senate confirmation, earned millions of dollars a year working for Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Citigroup Inc. and other Wall Street firms, according to financial disclosure forms.
The advisers include Gene Sperling, who last year took in $887,727 from Goldman Sachs and $158,000 for speeches mostly to financial companies, including the firm run by accused Ponzi scheme mastermind R. Allen Stanford. Another top aide, Lee Sachs, reported more than $3 million in salary and partnership income from Mariner Investment Group, a New York hedge fund.
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Monday, October 19, 2009
WaMu Insider Trading and Naked Short Selling / Companies / Market Manipulation
By: Mike_Stathis
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece discussing allegations of insider trading and illegal naked short selling of Washington Mutual, involving the banking cartel and potentially their hedge fund clients.
In this piece, I provided a link to the SEC complaint I submitted on October 7, 2008.
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
U.S. Stock Markets Disconnected from Reality / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: John_Browne
Earlier this year, I predicted that the 2009 rally in U.S. stocks could bring the Dow Jones Index as high as 10,000. It looks like that level has been achieved. If, at this point, the index reverses course, I would have made a fairly good prediction.
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Saturday, October 03, 2009
How Goldman Sachs Lobbies the Senate / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Matt_Taibbi
The SEC is holding a public round table Tuesday to explore several issues around securities lending, which has expanded into a big moneymaker for Wall Street firms and pension funds. Regulation hasn’t kept pace, some industry participants contend. Securities lending is central to the practice of short selling, in which investors borrow shares and sell them in a bet that the price will decline. Short sellers later hope to buy back the shares at a lower price and return them to the securities lender, booking a profit. Lending and borrowing also help market makers keep stock trading functioning smoothly.
Thursday, October 01, 2009
The Biggest Banking Heist in World History: Washington Mutual / Companies / Market Manipulation
By: Mike_Stathis
This September 25th 2009 marked the one-year anniversary of Washington Mutual’s seizure, by the Office of Thrift Supervision (supposedly) as a result of insolvency (supposedly).
Last year, on October 7th, I sent the SEC a (rushed) formal complaint highlighting my concerns regarding insider trading and other illegal activities associated with WaMu.
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